Category talk:English similes
Latest comment: 5 years ago by Per utramque cavernam in topic Needed entries
Requested similes[edit]
Some articles that should be created and added to this category:
- black as coal
- black as night
- clean as a whistle
- clear as day
- eyes like a hawk
- fly like an eagle
- free as a bird
- happy as Larry
- happy as a clam
- light as a feather
- like the dickens, like hell, like Hell, etc., if these count
- neat as ninepence
- old as the hills of Rome
- plain as day
- plain as the nose on your face
- quiet as a mouse
- sleep like the dead
- snap like a twig
- straight as an arrow
- strong as an ox
- thin as a rail
- white as a sheet
(I'll undertake these at some point if no one else does; I'm mostly just listing them so I won't forget them.)
—RuakhTALK 07:09, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
- Oh, I forgot about ones like colder than a witch's tit, hotter than Hell, larger than life (and bigger than life), which I guess are also similes. —RuakhTALK 23:40, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Needed entries[edit]
- big as a whale
- calm as a dove
- clear as sky
- fat as a cow
- fat as a fool
- free as the wind
- gentle as a lamb
- hard as a rock
- lively as a cricket
- meek as a lamb
- meek as a mouse
- puffy as a cloud
- queer as a three-dollar bill
- quick as lightning
- quick as thought
- quick as a wink
- serene as the sea
- sure as you're born
- surefooted as a mountain goat
- sweet as a diabetic
- swift as a deer
- welcome as the flowers in May
- rarer than rocking horse shit
- fly like a bird
- lie like a rug
- smile like a Cheshire cat