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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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Pages in category "English similes"
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- larger than life
- laugh like a drain
- laugh like a hyena
- lazy as Ludlam's dog
- leak like a sieve
- lie like a cheap rug
- lie like a dog
- lie like a rug
- life is like a box of chocolates
- light as a feather
- light up like a Christmas tree
- like a bag of ferrets
- like a bat out of hell
- like a bear with a sore head
- like a bitch on heat
- like a blue-arsed fly
- like a boss
- like a bowl in a china shop
- like a bull in a china shop
- like a bump on a log
- like a cat in a strange garret
- like a cat on a hot tin roof
- like a charm
- like a chicken on a June bug
- like a cow pissing on a flat rock
- like a dog in heat
- like a dog on heat
- like a dog with a bone
- like a dog with two dicks
- like a dog with two tails
- like a dose of salts
- like a drowned rat
- like a duck takes to water
- like a duck to water
- like a dying duck in a thunderstorm
- like a fart in church
- like a hawk
- like a hen on a hot griddle
- like a kid at Christmas
- like a kid in a candy store
- like a knife through butter
- like a lamb to the slaughter
- like a man
- like a man possessed
- like a martin to his gourd
- like a million bucks
- like a million dollars
- like a monkey on a stick
- like a mother hawk
- like a moth to the flame
- like an explosion in a paint factory
- like a pakapoo ticket
- like a phoenix from the ashes
- like a raped ape
- like a rat from a sinking ship
- like a rat up a drainpipe
- like a ripe plum
- like a scalded cat
- like a scalded dog
- like a stuck pig
- like atomic clockwork
- like a ton of bricks
- like a train
- like a wolf on the fold
- like Blackpool Illuminations
- like clockwork
- like crack
- like crazy
- like death warmed over
- like feeding time at the zoo
- like ferrets in a bag
- like flies on pie
- like gangbusters
- like grease through a goose
- like grim death
- like hot cakes
- like it's going out of style
- like kicking dead whales down the beach
- like molasses
- like mushrooms
- like nobody's business
- like one needs a hole in the head
- like one o'clock
- like one owns the place
- like one's life depended on it
- like peas and carrots
- like rats from a sinking ship
- like riding a bike
- like robbing a baby
- like shelling peas
- like shit through a goose
- like shooting fish in a barrel
- like speaking to a brick wall
- like speaking to a wall
- like stink
- like stink on shit
- like strange bulldogs
- like taking candy from a baby
- like talking to a brick wall
- like talking to a wall
- like the back end of a bus
- like the bottom of a birdcage
- like the cat that got the cream
- like the clappers
- like the new time
- like there is no tomorrow
- like the wind
- like throwing a hot dog down a hallway
- like turkeys voting for an early Christmas
- like turkeys voting for Christmas
- like two peas in a pod
- like water
- like water off a duck's back
- like white on rice
- like winkin
- like winking
- limber as a dishrag
- lit up like a Christmas tree
- live like a fighting cock
- live like a king
- long as one's arm
- look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards
- look like a bomb has hit it
- look like something the cat dragged in
- look like who did it and ran
- loose as a goose
- lower than a snake's belly
M
- mad as a bear with a sore head
- mad as a cut snake
- mad as a hatter
- mad as a hornet
- mad as a March hare
- mad as a meat axe
- mad as a mongoose
- mad as a wet hen
- make out like a bandit
- March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
- memory like a sieve
- merry as a cricket
- merry as a grig
- midnight in a coal mine
- mild as milk
- mind like a sieve
- mind like a steel trap
- miserable as a wet hen
- modern as next week
- more confusing than a Rubik's cube
- mute as a mouse
N
- naked as a jaybird
- near as a toucher
- neat as a button
- neat as a new pin
- neat as a pin
- neat as ninepence
- nervous as a cat
- nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
- nervous as a whore in church
- nice as ninepence
- nice as pie
- not as green as one is cabbage-looking
- nuttier than squirrel poop
- nuttier than squirrel shit
- nutty as a fruitcake