SIMILE

Idiom with as in the middle

• 'Eyes like stars,' e.g.

• 'Sharp as a tack,' e.g.

• As good as gold, e.g.

• Cool as a cucumber, e.g.

• Good as new, e.g.

• Hard as nails, for one

• Healthy as a horse, e.g.

• Hot as a pistol, e.g.

• Life is like a box of chocolates, e.g.

• Like a Virgin, for example?

• Lips like cherries, e.g.

• My love is like a red, red rose, e.g.

• Pretty as a picture, e.g.

• Proud as a peacock, e.g.

• Quiet as a mouse, e.g.

• Right as rain, e.g.

• Sick as a dog, for instance

• Smart as a whip, e.g.

• Smart as a whip, for instance

• Solid as a rock, for example

• Thick as thieves, e.g.

• As fit as a fiddle for one

• As plain as day, e.g.

• Bit of literary imagery

• Black as night, e.g.

• Cheeks like roses, e.g.

• Comparative construction

• Comparison

• Comparison type

• Cousin of a metaphor

• Cute as a button, for one

• Figure of speech

• Float like a butterfly, say

• Fresh as a daisy, e.g.

• Good as gold, for example

• Hair like silk, e.g.

• Hard as nails, e.g.

• Like a rock, e.g.

• Literary comparison

• Literary device

• Literary likening

• Metaphor kin

• Metaphor's cousin

• Neat as a pin, e.g.

• Neat as a pin, say

• Phrase of comparison

• Presenter of a likeness?

• Run like the wind, e.g.

• She is like a rose, say

• Sick as a dog, e.g.

• Tough as nails, e.g.

• Warm as toast, e.g.

• Writer's device

• Writer's likeness?

• A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')