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You're more fun than a playground made of candy. 117. Your questions are more interesting than a scientist's notebook. 118. You're braver than a knight riding a T-Rex. 119. Your singing is more ...
As a response to an unlikely proposition, "when pigs fly", "when pigs have wings", or simply "pigs might fly". [1] "When Hell freezes over" [2] and "A cold day in Hell" [3] are based on the understanding that Hell is eternally an extremely hot place. The "Twelfth of Never" will never come to pass. [4]
A simile (/ ˈ s ɪ m əl i /) is a type of figure of speech that directly compares two things. [1] [2] Similes are often contrasted with metaphors, where similes necessarily compare two things using words such as "like", "as", while metaphors often create an implicit comparison (i.e. saying something "is" something else).
And the wombles always had fun! So get out there, put a smile on your face, hold your head high and remember: When it's foggy on the common and you just can't see; And I womble into you and you womble into me; Just remember we're so lucky to be wombling free; Remember you're a Womble (Remember you're a Womble)
A Dictionary of Similes is a dictionary of similes written by the American writer and newspaperman Frank J. Wilstach. In 1916, Little, Brown and Company in Boston published Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes, a compilation he had been working on for more than 20 years. It included more than 15,000 examples from more than 800 authors, indexing ...
Don't go any further unless you want to know exactly what the correct words are in today's Mini Crossword. NYT Mini Across Answers 1 Across: Food that many an N.Y.C. tourist grabs for breakfast ...
The easiest stylistic device to identify is a simile, signaled by the use of the words "like" or "as". A simile is a comparison used to attract the reader's attention and describe something in descriptive terms. Example: "From up here on the fourteenth floor, my brother Charley looks like an insect scurrying among other insects." (from "Sweet ...
As easy as pie" is a popular colloquial idiom and simile which is used to describe a task or experience as pleasurable and simple. [1] [2] The phrase is often interchanged with piece of cake, which shares the same connotation. [2]