БичлэгGrammar. (8th grade)
Some common similies
As bold as a coot
As black as ink or pitch
As blind as a bat
As blue as the sky
As bold as brass
As bright as a button
As brown as a berry
As calm as a millpond
As clean as a whistle
As clear as a bell or as crystal or as mud
As cold as charity or ice
As cool as a cucumber
As cross as two sticks
As daft as a brush
As dead as a dodo or a door nail or as mutton
As deaf as a post
As different as chalk and cheese
As drunk as a lord or a piper
As dry as a bone
As dull as ditchwater
As easy as falling off a log or as winking
As fair as a rose
As fit as a fiddle
As flat as a pancake
As free as a bird
As fresh s a daisy or as paint
As good as gold
As green as grass
As happy as a lark or as a sand boy or as Larry
As happy as the day is long
As hard as nails
As high as a kite
As innocent as a lamb
As keen as mustard
As large as life
As light as a feather
As light as down
As like as two peas in a pod or chalk and cheese
As lively as a cricket
As mad as a hatter or a March hare
As merry as a grig
As near as a touch
As neat as nine pence
As often as not
As old as Adam or Methuselah or the hills
As plain as a pikestaff
As pleased as Punch
As poor as a church mouse
As proud as a peacock
As pure as the driven snow
As quick as lightning
As quiet as a mouse
As red as a beetroot
As regular as clockwork
As rich as Croesus
As right as a trivet or as rain
As ripe as a cherry
As safe as houses
As sharp as a razor
As sick as a dog or a parrot
As silent as the grave
As slippery as an eel
As sober as a judge
As soft as a baby’s bottom
As sound as a bell
As sound as a roach
As steady as a rock
As stiff as a poker
As straight as a die
As strong as a horse
As stubborn as a mule
As sure as a gun or as eggs is eggs
As thick as a plank
As thick (=Conspiratorial) as thieves
As thick (=stupid)as two short planks
As thin as a rake
As tough as leather or old boots
As ugly as sin
As warm as toast
As weak as a kitten
As wet as a drowned rat
As white as a sheet or as snow
As wise as an owl
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