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Does anyone have favourite similes, metaphors or other comparisons? At Primary School we had an excellent teacher of English, Miss Googe – as remarked on an earlier thread, the names of good teachers stay with you. She introduced us to some basic rhetoric, though we didn’t know it was that, and I still recall being charmed at the thought of “a line of pylons striding up the hillside”.
This simile from Terry Pratchett struck me as original:
“…as self-centred as a gyroscope…”
A cleverly turned phrase, if you’ll forgive the pun. Has it been used before I wonder?
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learned from my mother, old as the hills i am sure, but i still like it:
As crooked as a ram's horn!
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From my mother:
As nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
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From my aunt, when I was late arriving for a meal: we waited for you like one pig waits for another.
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One gleaned from the pages of Pogo allus struck my fancy:
Prouder'n a pig with a purple pocklebook.
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One from my Tennessee Granny, commenting on our clumsy approach to accomplishing a household chore:
"You boys are going after that like you're killing snakes."
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one of my Dad's favorites:
"better than a kick in the pants"
hmm. "in" the pants, as opposed to "on". hafta think about that one.
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"better than a kick in the pants"
Which brings to mind:
Beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
And who can forget:
Mallem in aquis vivere,
Nudo semper sub aere,
Quam in hoc mergi pipere
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Well, that's swans for you ... I wonder what roast swan tastes like anyway. Ever tried it?
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what roast swan tastes like
Neither with nor without pepper sauce.
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