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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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F
- face like a fiddle
- fair as the day
- faithful as a dog
- faster than a minnow can swim a dipper
- fat as a fool
- fat as a house
- fertile as a turtle
- fight like cat and dog
- fine and dandy like sour candy
- 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
- free as the wind
- fresh as a daisy
- fresh as a rose
- fresh as paint
- fresh fucked fox in a forest fire
- fuck like a mink
- fuck like rabbits
- full as a goog
- full as a tick
- funny as a barrel of monkeys
- funny as a dose of the clap
G
- game as Ned Kelly
- gay as a lark
- gay as springtime
- gentle as a lamb
- get on like a house on fire
- giddy as a windmill
- go down like a lead balloon
- go down like a lead zeppelin
- go down like a sack of potatoes
- go like a dream
- good as gold
- good as one's word
- good as wheat in the bin
- go out like a light
- go over like a lead balloon
- go over like a lead zeppelin
- grave as a judge
- green as a gooseberry
- green as grass
- grin like a Cheshire cat
- grin like a mule eating briars
- grow like a weed
- guilty as sin
H
- happy as a clam
- happy as a jaybird
- happy as a lark
- happy as a pig in mud
- happy as a pig in shit
- happy as a possum up a gum tree
- happy as a prince
- happy as a sandboy
- happy as Larry
- hard as a rock
- hard as brazil
- hard as Chinese algebra
- hard as iron
- hard as nails
- hard as the nether millstone
- head like a sieve
- healthy as a horse
- hearty as a buck
- heavy as a dead donkey
- herd cats
- high as a Georgia pine
- high as a kite
- high as giraffe pussy
- hoarse as a crow
- homely as a hedge fence
- honest as the day
- 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
I
K
L
- 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