SIMILES

( Special qualities of creatures )

as afraid as a grasshopper
as agile as a monkey
as angry as a wasp
as big as a whale
as blind as a bat as industrious as an ant/a
beaver
as brave as a lion
as bright as a lark
as busy as an ant/ a bee
as calm as a cat
as cheerful as birds
as chirpy as a cricket
as clumsy as a bear
as crafty as a fox
mouse
as deaf as a beetle
mule
as dizzy as a goose
mosquito
as docile as a lamb as playful as a kitten/puppy/rabbit
as harmless as a dove
as heavy as an elephant
as hoarse as a raven
as hungry as a wolf
as joyful as a fly
as lazy as a toad
as large as a whale
as like as two herrings
as lively as a cricket
as mad as a March hare
as meek as a dove/ a lamb
as nervous as a
as abstinate as a
as persistent as a
as faithful as a dog
partridge
as fast as a deer/an eagle/ a hare
as fat as a pig
mouse
as fierce as a lion
as flat as a flounder
as fleet as a gazelle
as foolish as a calf
rhinoceros
as friendly as a puppy
as frisky as a lamb
as game as a fighting-cock
as gaudy as a butterfly
serpent
as gentle as a dove/ fawn/ lamb
as slow as a snail/ tortoise
as graceful as a swan
as greedy as a hog/ pig
ox
as hairy as a gorilla/ spider
serpent
as happy as a lark
as plump as a
as poor as a church-
as proud as a peacock
as quiet as a mouse
as rude as a bear
as rugged as a
as shy as a fawn/a squirrel
as sick as a dog
as silly as a sheep
as slippery as an eel/ a
as spineless as a jelly fish
as strong as a horse/ an
as subtle as a
as supple as a snake
as tricky as an ape
as sure-footed as a goat
as suspicious as a cat
as swift as a deer/hare/hawk
as venomous as a snake
as talkative as a magpie
as tenacious as a bulldog
as tender as a chicken
as timid as a mouse/rabbit
SIMILES ( Special qualities of people)
as bashful as a schoolgirl
as chubby as a cherub
Methuselah
as devoted as a mother
as eager as a bridegroom
as feeble as a child
as fickle as friends
bride
as happy as a child/king
as harmless as a baby
as helpless as a baby as strong as Hercules/Samson
as hungry as a hunter
as useful as a cow
as vain as a peacock
as wasteful as a hen
as wet as a fish
as wily as a fox
as wise as an owl
as mean as a miser
as old as
as patient as a Job
as regal as Juno
as rich as a Croesus
as rosy as a
as sober as a judge
as stately as a queen
as tall as a giant
as impatient as a lover as tender as a
shepherd
as lovely as Venus as thick as
thieves
as loyal as an apostle as wise as Solomon
as mad as a hatter

SIMILES ( Special qualities of things)

as active as quicksilver as calm as death
as bald as an egg as careless as the wind
as bare as a stone as clean as a new pin
as beautiful as the rainbow as clear as a bell/
crystal
as bitter as a gall as cold as a corpse/ ice
as black as coal/ pitch/ sin/ soot as constant as the
sun
as blue as forget-me-nots/ indigo as cool as a cucumber
as blunt as a hammer as dark as a
dungeon/night
as bold as brass as dead as a doornail/wood
as boundless as the ocean as deaf as a doorpost
as bright as a button as dry as a bone/dust
as brilliant as the stars as dull as
ditchwater
as brittle as glass as easy as ABC/pie
as brown as a berry as fat as butter
as fickle as the weather as rough as a storm
as fit as a fiddle as sacred as a shrine
as flat as a pancake as sad as night
as flimsy as gauze as saucy as a
wave
as fresh as a daisy/dew/ paint as sensitive as a
flower
as gloomy as night
as sharp as a needle/razor
as good as gold/new as silent as the
grave/stone
as green as grass as smooth as glass/velvet
as hard as horn/ iron/nails/steel
as soft as butter/ putty/ wool
as heavy as lead
as hollow as a drum
as hot as fire/ furnace/ pepper
lime/vinegar
as immense as the sea
rock
as inconstant as the moon
as stiff as a board/poker
as keen as mustard/razor
as large as life
arrow
as light as air/ feather
as like as two peas
as loud as thunder
as new as day
as old as the hills
as pale as death
as plain as a pikestaff
glass
as pretty as a picture
as pure as a lily
scarecrow
as purple as the heather
as solid as a brick
as sound as a bell
as sour as
as steady as a
as still as a log/ statue
as straight as an
as sturdy as an oak
as sweet as honey/sugar
as swift as an arrow
as thin as a rake
as tight as a drum
as tough as leather
as transparent as
as true as the gospel/steel
as ugly as a
as upright as a tower
as quick as lightning
as warm as wool
as rare as a blue rose/ a comet
as weak as water
as red as blood/cherry/poppy
as right as rain
as regular as the clock/ clockwork
as yellow as sulphur
as young as dawn
as white as ivory/porcelain/sheet/ snow
as round as a barrel/ an orange