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English Idioms and other figures of speech[edit]

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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

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