[etni] Metaphors to die for ;)

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Enough of Dovrat and other topics in the news.... I need a break, and you all 
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Enjoy!
Adele


          These came from the annual "Dark and Stormy Night" competition. 
Actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays:

          1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides 
gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

          2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances 
like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

           3. 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.

           4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was 
room-temperature Canadian beef.

           5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog 
makes just before it throws up.

           6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

           7. He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.

           8. 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.

           9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a 
bowling ball wouldn't.

           10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag 
filled with vegetable soup.

           11. 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.

           12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

           13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when 
you fry them in hot grease.

           14. 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.

           15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences 
that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.

           16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who 
had also never met.

           17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was 
the East River.

           18. Even in his last years, Grandpappy had a mind like a steel trap, 
only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.

           19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

           20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike 
Phil, this plan just might work.

           21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not 
eating for a while.

           22. 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.

           23. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender 
leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

           24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around 
with power tools.

           25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard 
bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.

           26. Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put 
in any pH cleanser.

           27. She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.

           28. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple 
it to the wall. 



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