# English similes
# http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_similes
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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/?