Quick as …
Not an eye you would want settling its penetrating gaze on you, giving you a cold adder-quick assessment through the...
As agreeable as …
What a satisfying simile for something being agreeable, like the ease and relief of a successful sneeze. How odd that...
Twain on technology
This simile was devised by Mark Twain to account for his inability to use Edison's new-fangled recording phonograph as a...
Invisible but potent
A person who seems to have been entirely congruent in his memories and his values, fully dissolved and present in...
Sea the colour
I love different ways of describing eyes, and colours, and this one allows some range in its definition. Blue or...
As humourless as …
A curious yet convincing simile for lacking humour, by the great metaphorist John Steinbeck. What would come to your mind...
Successful avoidance
George Eliot captures a moment in which two people deeply attracted to one another manage to feign indifference, each deriving...
Bright as …
This simile brought to mind an image of a magnesium flare, and reminded me of others I've shared here on...
Clean as a snowdrop
We're edging towards snowdrop time, their pristine pendant-petals peeking through the mud and cold, like tiny bright lanterns lighting the...
As easy as …
A fun simile to sum up wiping out your enemies with ease and efficiency.
For a while...
As homely as
What comes to mind? Apple pie? Cup of tea? Kitchen table? I found Durrell's homely simile as charming as surprising. ...
Flung into the fire
Saint-Exupéry, himself one of the fire-flung pilots of the French air force in the early, desperate days of the war,...
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