Learn English – What’s the meaning of “you look like a prune”

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In the TV drama 'Boston Legal', Denny Crane says "you look like a prune" to his workmate.

What's the meaning of it?

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I imagine Denny was speaking to someone particularly shrivelled or wrinkly and was being insulting.

The phrase is literal. "You look like a wrinkly purple fruit"

These are prunes; not a particularly pretty thing to be compared to:

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