ugly customer

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

A disagreeable or troublesome companion.

Capt. H.----, whom we met at St. Francisco, carried a number of horses, rather ugly customers, for the occasion, in an undecked vessel, from California to Woahoo.--Simpson's Overland Journey, Vol. I. p. 224.

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