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+# English similes
+# http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_similes
+/encoding=utf-8
+American as apple pie/!
+as English as apple pie/!
+as fine as Dick's hatband/!
+as fine as Dick’s hatband/!
+as full as a tick/!
+as good as it gets/!
+as much use as a chocolate fireguard/!
+as much use as a chocolate teapot/!
+as often as not/!
+as queer as Dick's hatband/!
+as queer as Dick’s hatband/!
+as sure as eggs are eggs/!
+as sure as eggs is eggs/!
+as tight as Dick's hatband/!
+as tight as Dick’s hatband/!
+avoid like the plague/!
+bald as a coot/!
+be as silent as the grave/!
+bent as a nine-bob note/!
+black as coal/!
+blind as a bat/!
+bold as brass/!
+breed like rabbits/!
+bright as a button/!
+built like a brick shithouse/!
+built like a tank/!
+business as usual/!
+busy as a beaver/!
+busy as a bee/!
+calm as a millpond/!
+camp as a row of tents/!
+catch as catch can/!
+catch-as-catch-can/!
+cheap as chips/!
+chirpy as a cricket/!
+clean as a hound's tooth/!
+clean as a hound’s tooth/!
+clean as a whistle/!
+clear as a bell/!
+clear as mud/!
+close as wax/!
+cold as a wagon tire/!
+cold as a witch's tit/!
+cold as a witch’s tit/!
+cold as ice/!
+come down on like a ton of bricks/!
+cool as a cucumber/!
+crazy like a fox/!
+cry like a baby/!
+cry like a little girl/!
+crying like a baby/!
+cut like a knife/!
+cute as a bug's ear/!
+cute as a bug’s ear/!
+cute as a button/!
+daft as a brush/!
+dead as a dodo/!
+dead as a doorknob/!
+dead as a doornail/!
+deaf as a doorpost/!
+deaf as a post/!
+different as chalk and cheese/!
+drink like a fish/!
+drop him like a hot potato/!
+drop like flies/!
+drunk as Chloe/!
+drunk as a cunt/!
+drunk as a lord/!
+drunk as a skunk/!
+dry as a bone/!
+dry as a dead dingo's donger/!
+dry as a dead dingo’s donger/!
+dull as dishwater/!
+dull as ditchwater/!
+dumb as a bag of hammers/!
+dumb as a box of rocks/!
+dumb as a sack of hammers/!
+easy as ABC/!
+easy as falling off a log/!
+easy as pie/!
+eat like a bird/!
+eat like a horse/!
+eat like a pig/!
+fat as a cow/!
+fine as frog hair/!
+finer than frog hair/!
+fit as a Mallee bull/!
+fit as a butcher's dog/!
+fit as a butcher’s dog/!
+fit as a fiddle/!
+fit as a lop/!
+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 fucked fox in a forest fire/!
+fuck like a mink/!
+fuck like rabbits/!
+full as a goog/!
+full as a tick/!
+get on like a house on fire/!
+give as good as one gets/!
+go down like a lead balloon/!
+go out like a light/!
+good as gold/!
+good as one's word/!
+good as one’s word/!
+green as a gooseberry/!
+grin like a Cheshire cat/!
+grinning like a bushel basketful of possum heads/!
+guilty as sin/!
+hanged for a sheep as a lamb/!
+happy as Larry/!
+happy as a box of birds/!
+happy as a clam/!
+happy as a lark/!
+happy as a peacock/!
+happy as a pig in shit/!
+hard as nails/!
+hateful as a toad/!
+have a mind like a sieve/!
+hell hath no fury like a woman scorned/!
+high as a kite/!
+hung like a donkey/!
+hung like a horse/!
+hungry as a hog/!
+keen as mustard/!
+kick like a mule/!
+know like a book/!
+large as life/!
+laugh like a drain/!
+laugh like a hyena/!
+light as a feather/!
+like a bat out of hell/!
+like a bear with a sore head/!
+like a blue-arsed fly/!
+like a bolt from the blue/!
+like a broken record/!
+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 chicken with its head cut off/!
+like a chicken with the pip/!
+like a dirty shirt/!
+like a dog in heat/!
+like a dog on heat/!
+like a dog with a bone/!
+like a duck takes to water/!
+like a hawk/!
+like a hot potato/!
+like a house on fire/!
+like a kid in a candy store/!
+like a lamb to the slaughter/!
+like a man/!
+like a million bucks/!
+like a million dollars/!
+like a mother hawk/!
+like a ton of bricks/!
+like a train/!
+like cheese at fourpence/!
+like clockwork/!
+like crack/!
+like crazy/!
+like death warmed over/!
+like dog's breath/!
+like dog’s breath/!
+like father, like son/!
+like feeding time at the zoo/!
+like gangbusters/!
+like hot cakes/!
+like it's going out of style/!
+like it’s going out of style/!
+like nobody's business/!
+like nobody’s business/!
+like one's life depended on it/!
+like one’s life depended on it/!
+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 clappers/!
+like the devil/!
+like the new time/!
+like the wind/!
+like there is no tomorrow/!
+like turkeys voting for Christmas/!
+like turkeys voting for an early Christmas/!
+like two peas in a pod/!
+like water off a duck's back/!
+like water off a duck’s back/!
+like white on rice/!
+limber as a dishrag/!
+long as my arm/!
+mad as a March hare/!
+mad as a cut snake/!
+mad as a hatter/!
+mad as a hornet/!
+make it up as one goes along/!
+make like a banana and split/!
+make like a tree and leave/!
+make out like a bandit/!
+memory like a sieve/!
+mutton dressed as lamb/!
+naked as a jay bird/!
+naked as a jaybird/!
+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/!
+nod’s as good as a wink to a blind bat/!
+nutty as a fruit cake/!
+nutty as a fruitcake/!
+off like a bride's nightie/!
+off like a bride’s nightie/!
+off like a prom dress/!
+old as the hills/!
+out like a light/!
+piss like a racehorse/!
+pissed as a newt/!
+plain as a pikestaff/!
+plain as day/!
+plain as the nose on one's face/!
+plain as the nose on one’s face/!
+plain as the nose on your face/!
+play someone like a fiddle/!
+pleased as Punch/!
+poor as a church mouse/!
+pretty as a picture/!
+proud as a peacock/!
+pure as the driven snow/!
+quack like a duck/!
+queer as Dick's hatband/!
+queer as Dick’s hatband/!
+queer as a clockwork orange/!
+quick as a flash/!
+quiet as a mouse/!
+read like a book/!
+rich as Croesus/!
+right as a trivet/!
+right as rain/!
+rock solid/!
+run around like a chicken with its head cut off/!
+run like a top/!
+safe as houses/!
+scarce as hen's teeth/!
+scarce as hen’s teeth/!
+scared as hell/!
+sharp as a tack/!
+sick as a dog/!
+sick as a parrot/!
+sing like a bird/!
+sink like a stone/!
+skinny as a rail/!
+sleep like a baby/!
+sleep like a log/!
+slippery as an eel/!
+slow as a dead snail/!
+slow as a snail/!
+slow as molasses in January/!
+slow as molasses/!
+sly as a fox/!
+smell like a rose/!
+smoke like a chimney/!
+smoke like a furnace/!
+smooth as a baby's bottom/!
+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 a baby’s bottom/!
+solid as a rock/!
+solid as the rock of gibraltar/!
+sound as a bell/!
+sound as a roach/!
+spread like wildfire/!
+squeal like a stuck pig/!
+squint like a bag of nails/!
+steady as a rock/!
+steady as she goes/!
+steady-as-she-goes/!
+stick out like a sore thumb/!
+sting like a bee/!
+straight as an arrow/!
+strange as it may seem/!
+strong as an ox/!
+stubborn as a mule/!
+stuffed like a turkey/!
+sure as eggs is eggs/!
+sure as eggs/!
+sure as hell/!
+swear like a sailor/!
+swear like a trooper/!
+sweat like a pig/!
+sweet as a nut/!
+sweet as pie/!
+swim like a fish/!
+take it like a man/!
+talk like an apothecary/!
+taste like chicken/!
+there's nowt so queer as folk/!
+there’s nowt so queer as folk/!
+thick as a brick/!
+thick as thieves/!
+thin as a rake/!
+tight as a duck's arse/!
+tight as a duck’s arse/!
+toey as a Roman sandal/!
+tough as nails/!
+walk like an Egyptian/!
+watch like a hawk/!
+watch me like a hawk/!
+watch over like a mother hawk/!
+white as a sheet/!
+white as driven snow/!
+white as snow/!
+work like a charm/!
+work like a horse/!