Category:English similes
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English figures of speech in which one thing is compared to another.
For more information, see Appendix:English similes.
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- age like a fine wine
- age like milk
- age like vinegar
- all over someone like a rash
- all over the place like a mad woman's custard
- American as apple pie
- angry as a wet hen
- a nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat
- arse like a Japanese flag
- as all get-out
- as all hell
- as anything
- as Australian as Vegemite
- as balls
- as fast as one's legs could carry one
- as fuck
- as good as new
- as heck
- as hell
- as large as life
- as much use as a chocolate fireguard
- as much use as a chocolate teapot
- as nervous as a witch
- as one man
- as shit
- as the day is long
- as the next girl
- as the next guy
- Australian as a kangaroo
- Australian as a meat pie
- avoid like the plague
- a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
B
- bald as a billiard ball
- bald as a bladder of lard
- bald as a coot
- be no match for
- bent as a nine-bob note
- better than sex
- big as a barn
- big as a house
- big as bull-beef
- big as the Beatles
- bigger than Ben Hur
- bigger than life
- black as a dog's guts
- black as coal
- black as Newgate's knocker
- black as night
- black as tar
- black as the ace of spades
- black as thunder
- black as your hat
- bleed like a stuck pig
- blind as a bat
- blind as a beetle
- blind as a mole
- blind as an owl
- bold as brass
- boring as beans
- brain like a sieve
- brave as a lion
- breed like rabbits
- bright as a button
- bright as a new button
- bright as a new coin
- bright as a new dollar
- bright as a new penny
- bright as a new pin
- broker than the Ten Commandments
- brown as a berry
- built like a brick outhouse
- built like a brick shipyard
- built like a brick shithouse
- built like a shit brickhouse
- built like a tank
- busy as a beaver
- busy as a bee
- busy as a dyke in a hardware store
- busy as a nailer
- busy as a one-armed paper hanger
C
- calm as a cucumber
- calm as a millpond
- Canadian as maple syrup
- change like seasons
- charge like a wounded bull
- cheap as chips
- cheap like borscht
- chirpy as a cricket
- clean as a bean
- clean as a hound's tooth
- clean as a new penny
- clean as a new pin
- clean as a whistle
- clear as a bell
- clear as a mirror
- clear as crystal
- clear as day
- clear as mud
- clear as print
- close as wax
- cold as a mackerel
- cold as a wagon tire
- cold as a well-digger's arse
- cold as a witch's kiss
- cold as a witch's tit
- cold as balls
- cold as charity
- cold as death
- cold as ice
- comfortable as an old shoe
- common as bums
- common as dirt
- common as muck
- common as pig tracks
- conceited as a barber's cat
- cool as a cucumber
- cracked as an egg
- crazier than a June bug
- crazy as a bedbug
- crazy as a cootie
- crazy as a cootie bug
- crazy as a shithouse rat
- crazy as a soup sandwich
- crazy like a fox
- crooked as a barrel of fish hooks
- crooked as a barrel of snakes
- crooked as a dog's hind leg
- cross as two sticks
- cry like a baby
- cry like a little girl
- crystal clear
- curse like a pagan
- curse like a sailor
- curse like a trooper
- cute as a bug in a rug
- cute as a bug's ear
- cute as a button
- cute as a pin
- cute as a speckled pup
- cut like a knife
D
- daft as a brush
- dandy as candy
- dark as pitch
- dark as the inside of a cow
- dead as a dodo
- dead as a doorknob
- dead as a doornail
- dead as a herring
- dead as a kipper
- dead as a mackerel
- dead as ditch-water
- dead as Hector
- deader than disco
- deaf as a doorknob
- deaf as a doorpost
- deaf as a post
- demure as a whore at a christening
- die like flies
- done up like a dog's dinner
- done up like a kipper
- dressed up like a Christmas tree
- drink like a fish
- drink something like lemonade
- drop like a bad habit
- drop like a hot potato
- drop like flies
- drunk as a boiled owl
- drunk as a cunt
- drunk as a fiddler
- drunk as a fiddler's bitch
- drunk as a lord
- drunk as an owl
- drunk as a piper
- drunk as a skunk
- drunk as a sow
- drunk as a wheelbarrow
- drunk as Chloe
- drunk as David's sow
- dry as a bone
- dry as a dead dingo's donger
- dry as a nun's cunt
- dry as a nun's nasty
- dry as dust
- dull as dishwater
- dull as ditchwater
- dumb as a bag of hammers
- dumb as a box of rocks
- dumb as a brick
- dumb as a doorknob
- dumb as a doornail
- dumb as a fish
- dumb as an ox
- dumb as a post
- dumb as a rock
- dumb as dirt
- dumb as nails
- dumb like a fox