Category talk:English similes

Requested similes
Some articles that should be created and added to this category:


 * black as coal
 * black as night
 * clean as a whistle
 * clear as day
 * eyes like a hawk
 * fly like an eagle
 * free as a bird
 * happy as Larry
 * happy as a clam
 * light as a feather
 * like the dickens, like hell, like Hell, etc., if these count
 * neat as ninepence
 * old as the hills of Rome
 * plain as day
 * plain as the nose on your face
 * quiet as a mouse
 * sleep like the dead
 * snap like a twig
 * straight as an arrow
 * strong as an ox
 * thin as a rail
 * white as a sheet

(I'll undertake these at some point if no one else does; I'm mostly just listing them so I won't forget them.)

—Ruakh TALK 07:09, 21 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Oh, I forgot about ones like colder than a witch's tit, hotter than Hell, larger than life (and bigger than life), which I guess are also similes. —Ruakh TALK 23:40, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Needed entries
Per utramque cavernam 13:34, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
 * big as a whale
 * calm as a dove
 * clear as sky
 * fat as a cow
 * fat as a fool
 * free as the wind
 * gentle as a lamb
 * hard as a rock
 * lively as a cricket
 * meek as a lamb
 * meek as a mouse
 * puffy as a cloud
 * queer as a three-dollar bill
 * quick as lightning
 * quick as thought
 * quick as a wink
 * serene as the sea
 * sure as you're born
 * surefooted as a mountain goat
 * sweet as a diabetic
 * swift as a deer
 * welcome as the flowers in May
 * rarer than rocking horse shit
 * fly like a bird
 * lie like a rug
 * smile like a Cheshire cat