diamond in the rough

Wild Mother had also turned to social media to find her tribe - having been called "a weirdo, an alien, a diamond in the rough" offline - and has built a following of thousands.

“It was portrayed as she found this diamond in the rough that nobody ever heard of,” said French.

But our best type of recruit is what I call a diamond in the rough.

But he added that a Native Hawaiian leader he’d spoken to had called the tree a “diamond in the rough of hope.”

“A diamond in the rough,” as Crump once proudly said he was labeled by a superior.