"And looked like something on a slab?" The phrase is from the novel "Right Ho, Jeeves!" by P. G. Wodehouse: ------ "The chap I know wears horn-rimmed spectacles and has a face like a fish. How does that check up with your data?" "The gentleman who came to the flat wore horn-rimmed spectacles, sir." "And looked like something on a slab?" "Possibly there was a certain suggestion of the piscine, sir." ------ I am at a loss to understand what Bertie Wooster meant by 'look like something on a slab', although I have an inkling that he might have had a fish counter or a fish stand in mind when he used this phrase.