trout pout

trout pout
 n.— «I’m a celebrity and I want to get out, have your face altered, get a trout pout, be famous for doing nothing at all.» —“You’re all on probation, this is the British nation” by Jeremy Clarkson Times (London, England) May 2, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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