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English Idioms and other figures of speech

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Similes
Appendix:Australian English colloquial similes
Appendix:English similes
American as apple pie
as all hell
as anything
as English as apple pie
as fuck
as good as new
as hell
as like as not
as modern as next week
as much use as a chocolate fireguard
as much use as a chocolate teapot
as one man
as shit
as sure as a gun
avoid like the plague
bald as a coot
bent as a nine-bob note
better than sex
big as a barn
bigger than Ben Hur
black as a dog's guts
black as coal
black as Newgate's knocker
black as night
black as the ace of spades
black as thunder
bleed like a stuck pig
blind as a bat
blind as a beetle
blind as a mole
blind as an owl
bold as brass
boring as beans
brave as a lion
breed like rabbits
bright as a button
broker than the Ten Commandments
brown as a berry
built like a brick shithouse
busy as a beaver
busy as a bee
calm as a millpond
Canadian as maple syrup
cheap as chips
chirpy as a cricket
clean as a hound's tooth
clean as a new penny
clean as a whistle
clear as a bell
clear as crystal
clear as day
clear as mud
close as wax
cold as a wagon tire
cold as a well-digger's arse
cold as a witch's kiss
cold as a witch's teat
cold as a witch's tit
cold as charity
cold as ice
comfortable as an old shoe
common as dirt
common as muck
common as pig tracks
cool as a cucumber
crazy as a soup sandwich
crazy like a fox
cross as two sticks
cry like a baby
cry like a little girl
curse like a pagan
cut like a knife
cute as a bug's ear
cute as a button
cute as a pin
cute as a speckled pup
daft as a brush
dead as a dodo
dead as a doorknob
dead as a doornail
dead as a herring
dead as a kipper
dead as a mackerel
deader than disco
deaf as a doorpost
deaf as a post
done up like a dog's dinner
dressed up like a Christmas tree
drink like a fish
drop like flies
drunk as a cunt
drunk as a fiddler
drunk as a fiddler's bitch
drunk as a lord
drunk as a piper
drunk as a skunk
drunk as a sow
drunk as a wheelbarrow
drunk as an owl
drunk as Chloe
drunk as David's sow
dry as a bone
dry as a dead dingo's donger
dry as a nun's cunt
dry as a nun's nasty
dull as dishwater
dull as ditchwater
dumb as a bag of hammers
dumb as a box of rocks
dumb as a doorknob
dumb as a doornail
dumb as a post
dumb as an ox
easy as 123
easy as ABC
easy as cake
easy as falling off a log
easy as pie
eat like a bird
eat like a horse
eat like a pig
empty as a pauper's purse
faster than a minnow can swim a dipper
fertile as a turtle
fine as frog hair
fine as frog's hair
fit as a butcher's dog
fit as a fiddle
fit as a flea
fit as a lop
fit as a Mallee bull
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 as a rose
fresh fucked fox in a forest fire
fuck like a mink
fuck like rabbits
fugly as sin
full as a goog
full as a tick
gay as a lark
gay as springtime
get on like a house on fire
go down like a lead balloon
go like a dream
go out like a light
good as gold
good as one's word
green as a gooseberry
grin like a Cheshire cat
grow like a weed
guilty as a cat in a goldfish bowl
guilty as sin
happy as a clam
happy as a lark
happy as a prince
happy as a sandboy
happy as Larry
hard as iron
hard as nails
have a mind like a sieve
hearty as a buck
heavy as a dead donkey
herd cats
high as a kite
hot as blazes
hot as fire
hot as Hades
hot as hell
hung like a donkey
hung like a horse
hungry as a hog
hungry like the wolf
innocent as the babe unborn
innocent as the child unborn
keen as mustard
kick like a mule
know like a book
know like the back of one's hand
laugh like a drain
laugh like a hyena
life is like a box of chocolates
light as a feather
like a bag of ferrets
like a bat out of hell
like a bear with a sore head
like a bitch on heat
like a blue-arsed fly
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 dog in heat
like a dog on heat
like a dog with a bone
like a duck takes to water
like a duck to water
like a dying duck in a thunderstorm
like a fart in church
like a hawk
like a kid in a candy store
like a knife through butter
like a lamb to the slaughter
like a man
like a martin to his gourd
like a million bucks
like a million dollars
like a moth to the flame
like a phoenix from the ashes
like a rat up a drainpipe
like a ton of bricks
like a train
like clockwork
like crack
like crazy
like death warmed over
like feeding time at the zoo
like ferrets in a bag
like gangbusters
like hot cakes
like it's going out of style
like molasses
like nobody's business
like peas and carrots
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 cat that got the cream
like the clappers
like the new time
like the wind
like throwing a hot dog down a hallway
like turkeys voting for an early Christmas
like turkeys voting for Christmas
like two peas in a pod
like water off a duck's back
like white on rice
like winking
limber as a dishrag
lit up like a Christmas tree
live like a fighting cock
live like a king
long as one's arm
loose as a goose
lower than a snake's belly
mad as a bear with a sore head
mad as a cut snake
mad as a hatter
mad as a hornet
mad as a March hare
mad as a meat axe
memory like a sieve
merry as a cricket
merry as a grig
mind like a steel trap
naked as a jaybird
neat as a new pin
neat as a pin
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
nutty as a fruitcake
odious as a toad
off like a bride's nightie
old as the hills
old as time
older than dirt
on it like a car bonnet
original as sin
out like a light
packed like sardines
phony as a three-dollar bill
pissed as a fart
pissed as a newt
plain as a pikestaff
plain as day
plain as Dunstable highway
plain as porridge
plain as the nose on one's face
play God
pleased as Punch
plenty as blackberries
poor as a church mouse
poor as Job
pretty as a picture
proud as a peacock
proud as Punch
pure as the driven snow
quack like a duck
queer as a clockwork orange
quick as a flash
quiet as a grave
quiet as a mouse
quiet as a snowflake
rare as a four-leaf clover
rare as hen's teeth
read like a book
read like an open book
red as a beetroot
remember like it was yesterday
rich as Croesus
right as a trivet
right as ninepence
right as rain
run like a top
safe as houses
scarce as hen's teeth
sell like hot cakes
shake like a leaf
sharp as a tack
ships that pass in the night
sick as a dog
sick as a parrot
silent as the grave
sing like a bird
sink like a stone
skinny as a rail
sleep like a baby
sleep like a dog
sleep like a log
sleep like a top
slick as snot
slippery as an eel
slow as a snail
slow as molasses in January
slow as tar
sly as a fox
smart as a whip
smart as paint
smell like a rose
smoke like a chimney
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 silk
solid as a rock
sound as a barrel
sound as a bell
sound as a roach
spread like wildfire
squeal like a stuck pig
steady as a rock
stick out like a sore thumb
stiff as a board
stiff as a poker
sting like a bee
straight as a die
straight as a soldier
straight as an arrow
strong as an ox
stubborn as a mule
stuffed like a turkey
sure as eggs
sure as eggs is eggs
sure as fate
sure as shooting
swear like a pagan
swear like a sailor
swear like a trooper
sweat like a horse
sweat like a pig
sweet as a nut
sweet as pie
swim like a fish
talk like a book
talk like an apothecary
taste like chicken
there's nowt so queer as folk
thick as a brick
thick as a plank
thick as mince
thick as pig shit
thick as thieves
thin as a rail
thin as a rake
thin as a wafer
tight as a duck's arse
tight as a tick
timid as a mouse
timid as a rabbit
toey as a Roman sandal
tough as nails
tough as old boots
true as I stand here
ugly as sin
useful as a chocolate teapot
useful as tits on a bull
walk like an Egyptian
warm as life
warm as toast
watch like a hawk
white as a ghost
white as a sheet
white as driven snow
white as snow
wisht as a winnard
work like a charm
work like a horse
Rhetorical questions
am I right
am I right or am I right
amirite
are you a man or a mouse
are you blind
are your ears burning
but who's counting
do bears shit in the woods
does a bear crap in the woods
does a bear shit in the woods
does Dolly Parton sleep on her back
does Macy's tell Gimbel's
does someone look like
does the Pope shit in the woods
guess what
how about that
how can you sleep at night
how do you do
how do you like them apples
how long is a piece of string
how no
how should I know
how's the weather up there
I know you are but what am I
is it just me
is the Pope Catholic
need I say more
since when
so what
wha gwan
what am I, chopped liver
what are the odds
what are you like
what are you looking at
what are you smoking
what are you waiting for
what can I say
what did your last slave die of
what do I know
what do you know
what do you want, a cookie
what does that have to do with the price of corn
what does that have to do with the price of tea in China
what else is new
what hath God wrought
what of it
what the
what the fuck
what the heck
what the hell
what the hey
what was someone smoking
what would Jesus do
what's it to you
what's the good of
what's new
what's the beef
what's up
what's up with
what's with
where are the snows of yesteryear
where do I sign up
where's the beef
who am I kidding
who are you and what have you done with someone
who ate all the pies
who cares
who died and left you in charge
who died and made you boss
who knows
who writes this stuff
who's 'she', the cat's mother
who's a pretty boy then
who's your daddy
why keep a dog and bark yourself
why not
would it hurt
would it kill someone
wouldn't you know
wouldn't you know it
you and what army
you and whose army
you call this
you kiss your mother with that mouth
you know what
Snowclones
Appendix:English snowclones
Appendix:Snowclones/don't X me
Appendix:Snowclones/few X short of a Y
Appendix:Snowclones/first rule of X: do not talk about X
Appendix:Snowclones/have more X in one's little finger than someone
Appendix:Snowclones/have X, will travel
Appendix:Snowclones/I am X, hear me Y
Appendix:Snowclones/I find your lack of X disturbing
Appendix:Snowclones/if Eskimos have N words for snow, X have Y words for Z
Appendix:Snowclones/if I had an X for every time I Y
Appendix:Snowclones/if that's not X, I don't know what is
Appendix:Snowclones/I'm an X, not a Y
Appendix:Snowclones/I'm going to build my own X with blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget the X
Appendix:Snowclones/I'm here to X A and Y B, and I'm all out of A
Appendix:Snowclones/in Soviet Russia, Y Xs you
Appendix:Snowclones/in X, no one can hear you Y
Appendix:Snowclones/not the X-est in the Y
Appendix:Snowclones/once a X, always a X
Appendix:Snowclones/so X I could die
Appendix:Snowclones/that's X for you
Appendix:Snowclones/to X or not to X
Appendix:Snowclones/what happens in X, stays in X
Appendix:Snowclones/with great X, comes great Y
Appendix:Snowclones/X among Xs
Appendix:Snowclones/X and Y and Z, oh my!
Appendix:Snowclones/X are born, not made
Appendix:Snowclones/X are made, not born
Appendix:Snowclones/X are X
Appendix:Snowclones/X as X can be
Appendix:Snowclones/X called, they want their Y back
Appendix:Snowclones/X is a good servant but a bad master
Appendix:Snowclones/X is not going to Y itself
Appendix:Snowclones/X is the new Y
Appendix:Snowclones/X me and call me Y
Appendix:Snowclones/X with a capital Y
Appendix:Snowclones/X Y is X
Appendix:Snowclones/X, thy name is Y
Appendix:Snowclones/X, Y, and Z—pick any two
Appendix:Snowclones/X? We don't need no stinkin' X!
Appendix:Snowclones/you can't spell XYZ without Y