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- Similes
- Appendix:Australian English colloquial similes
- Appendix:English similes
- American as apple pie
- as all hell
- as anything
- as English as apple pie
- as fuck
- as good as new
- as hell
- as like as not
- as modern as next week
- as much use as a chocolate fireguard
- as much use as a chocolate teapot
- as one man
- as shit
- as sure as a gun
- avoid like the plague
- bald as a coot
- bent as a nine-bob note
- better than sex
- big as a barn
- bigger than Ben Hur
- black as a dog's guts
- black as coal
- black as Newgate's knocker
- black as night
- black as the ace of spades
- black as thunder
- 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
- brave as a lion
- breed like rabbits
- bright as a button
- broker than the Ten Commandments
- brown as a berry
- built like a brick shithouse
- busy as a beaver
- busy as a bee
- calm as a millpond
- Canadian as maple syrup
- cheap as chips
- chirpy as a cricket
- clean as a hound's tooth
- clean as a new penny
- clean as a whistle
- clear as a bell
- clear as crystal
- clear as day
- clear as mud
- close as wax
- cold as a wagon tire
- cold as a well-digger's arse
- cold as a witch's kiss
- cold as a witch's teat
- cold as a witch's tit
- cold as charity
- cold as ice
- comfortable as an old shoe
- common as dirt
- common as muck
- common as pig tracks
- cool as a cucumber
- crazy as a soup sandwich
- crazy like a fox
- cross as two sticks
- cry like a baby
- cry like a little girl
- curse like a pagan
- cut like a knife
- cute as a bug's ear
- cute as a button
- cute as a pin
- cute as a speckled pup
- daft as a brush
- dead as a dodo
- dead as a doorknob
- dead as a doornail
- dead as a herring
- dead as a kipper
- dead as a mackerel
- deader than disco
- deaf as a doorpost
- deaf as a post
- done up like a dog's dinner
- dressed up like a Christmas tree
- drink like a fish
- drop like flies
- drunk as a cunt
- drunk as a fiddler
- drunk as a fiddler's bitch
- drunk as a lord
- drunk as a piper
- drunk as a skunk
- drunk as a sow
- drunk as a wheelbarrow
- drunk as an owl
- 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
- dull as dishwater
- dull as ditchwater
- dumb as a bag of hammers
- dumb as a box of rocks
- dumb as a doorknob
- dumb as a doornail
- dumb as a post
- dumb as an ox
- easy as 123
- easy as ABC
- easy as cake
- easy as falling off a log
- easy as pie
- eat like a bird
- eat like a horse
- eat like a pig
- empty as a pauper's purse
- faster than a minnow can swim a dipper
- fertile as a turtle
- fine as frog hair
- fine as frog's hair
- fit as a butcher's dog
- fit as a fiddle
- fit as a flea
- fit as a lop
- fit as a Mallee bull
- fit like a glove
- flat as a pancake
- float like a butterfly
- fly like a rock
- free as a bird
- fresh as a daisy
- fresh as a rose
- fresh fucked fox in a forest fire
- fuck like a mink
- fuck like rabbits
- fugly as sin
- full as a goog
- full as a tick
- gay as a lark
- gay as springtime
- get on like a house on fire
- go down like a lead balloon
- go like a dream
- go out like a light
- good as gold
- good as one's word
- green as a gooseberry
- grin like a Cheshire cat
- grow like a weed
- guilty as a cat in a goldfish bowl
- guilty as sin
- happy as a clam
- happy as a lark
- happy as a prince
- happy as a sandboy
- happy as Larry
- hard as iron
- hard as nails
- have a mind like a sieve
- hearty as a buck
- heavy as a dead donkey
- herd cats
- high as a kite
- hot as blazes
- hot as fire
- hot as Hades
- hot as hell
- hung like a donkey
- hung like a horse
- hungry as a hog
- hungry like the wolf
- innocent as the babe unborn
- innocent as the child unborn
- keen as mustard
- kick like a mule
- know like a book
- know like the back of one's hand
- laugh like a drain
- laugh like a hyena
- life is like a box of chocolates
- light as a feather
- 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 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 dog in heat
- like a dog on heat
- like a dog with a bone
- 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 kid in a candy store
- like a knife through butter
- like a lamb to the slaughter
- like a man
- like a martin to his gourd
- like a million bucks
- like a million dollars
- like a moth to the flame
- like a phoenix from the ashes
- like a rat up a drainpipe
- like a ton of bricks
- like a train
- like clockwork
- like crack
- like crazy
- like death warmed over
- like feeding time at the zoo
- like ferrets in a bag
- like gangbusters
- like hot cakes
- like it's going out of style
- like molasses
- like nobody's business
- like peas and carrots
- like rats from a sinking ship
- like riding a bike
- like shelling peas
- like shit through a goose
- like shooting fish in a barrel
- like taking candy from a baby
- like the back end of a bus
- like the cat that got the cream
- like the clappers
- like the new time
- 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 off a duck's back
- like white on rice
- 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
- loose as a goose
- lower than a snake's belly
- 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
- memory like a sieve
- merry as a cricket
- merry as a grig
- mind like a steel trap
- naked as a jaybird
- neat as a new pin
- neat as a pin
- nervous as a cat
- nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
- nice as ninepence
- nice as pie
- nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat
- nutty as a fruitcake
- odious as a toad
- off like a bride's nightie
- old as the hills
- old as time
- older than dirt
- on it like a car bonnet
- original as sin
- out like a light
- packed like sardines
- phony as a three-dollar bill
- pissed as a fart
- pissed as a newt
- plain as a pikestaff
- plain as day
- plain as Dunstable highway
- plain as porridge
- plain as the nose on one's face
- play God
- pleased as Punch
- plenty as blackberries
- poor as a church mouse
- poor as Job
- pretty as a picture
- proud as a peacock
- proud as Punch
- pure as the driven snow
- quack like a duck
- queer as a clockwork orange
- quick as a flash
- quiet as a grave
- quiet as a mouse
- quiet as a snowflake
- rare as a four-leaf clover
- rare as hen's teeth
- read like a book
- read like an open book
- red as a beetroot
- remember like it was yesterday
- rich as Croesus
- right as a trivet
- right as ninepence
- right as rain
- run like a top
- safe as houses
- scarce as hen's teeth
- sell like hot cakes
- shake like a leaf
- sharp as a tack
- ships that pass in the night
- sick as a dog
- sick as a parrot
- silent as the grave
- sing like a bird
- sink like a stone
- skinny as a rail
- sleep like a baby
- sleep like a dog
- sleep like a log
- sleep like a top
- slick as snot
- slippery as an eel
- slow as a snail
- slow as molasses in January
- slow as tar
- sly as a fox
- smart as a whip
- smart as paint
- smell like a rose
- smoke like a chimney
- smooth as a baby's bottom
- smooth as silk
- snug as a bug in a rug
- sober as a judge
- soft as a baby's bottom
- soft as silk
- solid as a rock
- sound as a barrel
- sound as a bell
- sound as a roach
- spread like wildfire
- squeal like a stuck pig
- steady as a rock
- stick out like a sore thumb
- stiff as a board
- stiff as a poker
- sting like a bee
- straight as a die
- straight as a soldier
- straight as an arrow
- strong as an ox
- stubborn as a mule
- stuffed like a turkey
- sure as eggs
- sure as eggs is eggs
- sure as fate
- sure as shooting
- swear like a pagan
- swear like a sailor
- swear like a trooper
- sweat like a horse
- sweat like a pig
- sweet as a nut
- sweet as pie
- swim like a fish
- talk like a book
- talk like an apothecary
- taste like chicken
- there's nowt so queer as folk
- thick as a brick
- thick as a plank
- thick as mince
- thick as pig shit
- thick as thieves
- thin as a rail
- thin as a rake
- thin as a wafer
- tight as a duck's arse
- tight as a tick
- timid as a mouse
- timid as a rabbit
- toey as a Roman sandal
- tough as nails
- tough as old boots
- true as I stand here
- ugly as sin
- useful as a chocolate teapot
- useful as tits on a bull
- walk like an Egyptian
- warm as life
- warm as toast
- watch like a hawk
- white as a ghost
- white as a sheet
- white as driven snow
- white as snow
- wisht as a winnard
- work like a charm
- work like a horse
- Rhetorical questions
- am I right
- am I right or am I right
- amirite
- are you a man or a mouse
- are you blind
- are your ears burning
- but who's counting
- do bears shit in the woods
- does a bear crap in the woods
- does a bear shit in the woods
- does Dolly Parton sleep on her back
- does Macy's tell Gimbel's
- does someone look like
- does the Pope shit in the woods
- guess what
- how about that
- how can you sleep at night
- how do you do
- how do you like them apples
- how long is a piece of string
- how no
- how should I know
- how's the weather up there
- I know you are but what am I
- is it just me
- is the Pope Catholic
- need I say more
- since when
- so what
- wha gwan
- what am I, chopped liver
- what are the odds
- what are you like
- what are you looking at
- what are you smoking
- what are you waiting for
- what can I say
- what did your last slave die of
- what do I know
- what do you know
- what do you want, a cookie
- what does that have to do with the price of corn
- what does that have to do with the price of tea in China
- what else is new
- what hath God wrought
- what of it
- what the
- what the fuck
- what the heck
- what the hell
- what the hey
- what was someone smoking
- what would Jesus do
- what's it to you
- what's the good of
- what's new
- what's the beef
- what's up
- what's up with
- what's with
- where are the snows of yesteryear
- where do I sign up
- where's the beef
- who am I kidding
- who are you and what have you done with someone
- who ate all the pies
- who cares
- who died and left you in charge
- who died and made you boss
- who knows
- who writes this stuff
- who's 'she', the cat's mother
- who's a pretty boy then
- who's your daddy
- why keep a dog and bark yourself
- why not
- would it hurt
- would it kill someone
- wouldn't you know
- wouldn't you know it
- you and what army
- you and whose army
- you call this
- you kiss your mother with that mouth
- you know what
- Snowclones
- Appendix:English snowclones
- Appendix:Snowclones/don't X me
- Appendix:Snowclones/few X short of a Y
- Appendix:Snowclones/first rule of X: do not talk about X
- Appendix:Snowclones/have more X in one's little finger than someone
- Appendix:Snowclones/have X, will travel
- Appendix:Snowclones/I am X, hear me Y
- Appendix:Snowclones/I find your lack of X disturbing
- Appendix:Snowclones/if Eskimos have N words for snow, X have Y words for Z
- Appendix:Snowclones/if I had an X for every time I Y
- Appendix:Snowclones/if that's not X, I don't know what is
- Appendix:Snowclones/I'm an X, not a Y
- Appendix:Snowclones/I'm going to build my own X with blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget the X
- Appendix:Snowclones/I'm here to X A and Y B, and I'm all out of A
- Appendix:Snowclones/in Soviet Russia, Y Xs you
- Appendix:Snowclones/in X, no one can hear you Y
- Appendix:Snowclones/not the X-est in the Y
- Appendix:Snowclones/once a X, always a X
- Appendix:Snowclones/so X I could die
- Appendix:Snowclones/that's X for you
- Appendix:Snowclones/to X or not to X
- Appendix:Snowclones/what happens in X, stays in X
- Appendix:Snowclones/with great X, comes great Y
- Appendix:Snowclones/X among Xs
- Appendix:Snowclones/X and Y and Z, oh my!
- Appendix:Snowclones/X are born, not made
- Appendix:Snowclones/X are made, not born
- Appendix:Snowclones/X are X
- Appendix:Snowclones/X as X can be
- Appendix:Snowclones/X called, they want their Y back
- Appendix:Snowclones/X is a good servant but a bad master
- Appendix:Snowclones/X is not going to Y itself
- Appendix:Snowclones/X is the new Y
- Appendix:Snowclones/X me and call me Y
- Appendix:Snowclones/X with a capital Y
- Appendix:Snowclones/X Y is X
- Appendix:Snowclones/X, thy name is Y
- Appendix:Snowclones/X, Y, and Z—pick any two
- Appendix:Snowclones/X? We don't need no stinkin' X!
- Appendix:Snowclones/you can't spell XYZ without Y