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