On 09/07/2016 16:02, newshound wrote:
On 7/6/2016 4:17 PM, David Lang wrote:
Similes
Heard these recently which made me laugh;

"As full as a fat woman's sock"
"As welcome as a ginger stepson"
"It went down like a fat kid on a see saw".

Anyone got any more? :-)


Not a simile, but a nice metaphor from Marina Hyde's Guardian piece on
Andrea Leadson

€œI want to speak to the markets,€� Leadsom smiled, with the air of
someone who imagines you can negotiate with gravity.

And this isn't bad either.

Even the verdicts of her friends tend toward the confusing. €œShe has
steel,€� blethered Iain Duncan Smith, €œbut there is a velvet glove of
compassion.€� Oh Iain! God knows Ive learned to manage my expectations
as far as IDS is concerned. But I would like a secretary of state who
understood a basic despot metaphor before he accidentally deployed it.



:-)

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Cheers, Rob