For your entertainment, actual similes and metaphors found by high school English teachers from across the country in their student’s essays.<\/p>\n
– Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.<\/p>\n
– His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances, like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.<\/p>\n
– He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.<\/p>\n
– She grew on him like she was a colony of e-coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.<\/p>\n
– She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.<\/p>\n
– Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.<\/p>\n
– He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.<\/p>\n
– The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife’s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.<\/p>\n
– The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.<\/p>\n
– McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.<\/p>\n
– From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.<\/p>\n
– Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.<\/p>\n
– The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.<\/p>\n
– Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.<\/p>\n
– They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth.<\/p>\n
– John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.<\/p>\n
– He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River.<\/p>\n
– Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.<\/p>\n
– Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
\n– The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.<\/p>\n
– The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.<\/p>\n
– He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.<\/p>\n
– The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.<\/p>\n
– It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.<\/p>\n
– He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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