Carpet-covered dias
Part of the infrastructure of a village fête celebrating the coming of age of the young squire, from where patronising...
As relaxing as …
Casaubon is a serious-minded studious individual pursuing research so recondite that only he really understands why he's doing it. When...
A packet of yellow love letters
What happened to all those love letter in a private drawer, sent and kept over centuries when this was the...
Swimming in circles
A fine simile for a wife who after a good stretch of marriage, still presses all the wrong buttons with...
My head’s alive
Like an old cheese ... a surprising and original way to describe a lively mind, writhing with ideas and plans....
The timbre of a voice
Voices are evanescent and yet they can stay with us all our lives; I can still 'hear' the voices of...
Gutter thinking
This is Bartle Massey, he of the blade-sharp tongue, laying into the so-called students who come to him for learning.
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Like frost and flowers
An alternative alliteration for describing people as being like chalk and cheese. Â Feel free to use it to inject some...
Peaches rolling together
A delicate and charming way to convey mutual attraction. It sounds so soft, so harmless and so sweet, yet it...
Looking good
The poor old boy, pallid and wan, in stark and merciless juxtaposition to the ruddy picture of health and well-being,...
As bad as…
A useful simile for when you want to be left in peace.
'As bad as buzzing insects that will come...
Quill-driving alien
A foreign writer? A spy reporting on his hosts? A literary martian? I liked this unusual triologism of George Eliot's. ...
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