Post your favourite simile - here's mine to start!

[luckyjimm]

"My little son has very fair hair and a conical head (it will not stay conical, they said) and a face like that of an ageing railway porter who is beginning to realise his untidiness has meant that he'll never get that ticket-collector's job he's been after for twenty years."

- Kingsley Amis, describing his newly-born son in a letter to Philip Larkin

[CrazyEyez]

This thread stinks like [censored].

[Isura]

Definitely thought this was about smiles.

[Droogie]

I hoped he misspelled "smilie" [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[luckyjimm]

A very famous one:

'It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.'
- Raymond Chandler in 'Farewell My Lovely'

[bwana devil]

"We are literally swimming in an ocean of homes for sale."

http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/27/news...ex.htm?cnn=yes

[otnemem]

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A very famous one:

'It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.'
- Raymond Chandler in 'Farewell My Lovely'

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Why am I not understanding how this is a simile?

[luckyjimm]

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A very famous one:

'It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.'
- Raymond Chandler in 'Farewell My Lovely'

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Why am I not understanding how this is a simile?

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Metaphorically speaking, of course!

[Los Feliz Slim]

I expect this thread to turn into a discussion of the difference between similes and metaphors, and I'm as excited as a ten-dicked rabbit on Easter!

[luckyjimm]

PG. Wodehouse's books are a delight for his comic similis:

Honoria ... is one of those robust, dynamic girls with the muscles of a welter-weight and a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge.

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when."

She wrinkles her nose at me as if I were a drain that had got out of order.