ugly duckling

Ugly Duckling lost money three of its first four years.

The director was giving me the part of the ugly duckling.

The pretty ones never remember the ugly ducklings, I guess.

Especially, she admitted, for someone who'd spent thirty years feeling like an ugly duckling.

Molly thinks of herself as the ugly duckling compared to my former wife.

We were like an ugly duckling that becomes a beauty and gets carried away with itself.

The ones of us who look at the ugly duckling and jeer, rather than love.

"And then the ugly duckling turned into a stunner herself."

I'm an ugly duckling in a land of swans, she thought.

"Wondering if I might turn the ugly duckling into a swan."