jolie-laide
adj.— «Simon Doonan, Barneys creative director, says pugs are “very jolie-laide.” That’s a French term for a woman who is oddly attractive though not conventionally beautiful. And that, says Doonan, “is very much what is happening in fashion right now.”» —“Pug o’ my heart” by Valli Herman Los Angeles Times May 6, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
A Francophone who’s feeling low might say so with J’ai le moral dans les chaussettes. The idiom avoir le moral dans les chaussettes means “to have morale in your socks.” This is part of a complete episode.
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The catchword “jolie laide” must have been invented for Sarah Jessica Parker.