Simile (si’-mi-lee): An explicit comparison, often (but not necessarily) employing “like” or “as.”
Your breath smells like the River Styx.
Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
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Simile (si’-mi-lee): An explicit comparison, often (but not necessarily) employing “like” or “as.”
We keep calling it a debt ceiling, but it’s more like a trampoline.
Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
Simile (si’-mi-lee): An explicit comparison, often (but not necessarily) employing “like” or “as.”
That candidate’s position on unemployment is like a parking lot out in the middle of the desert: empty and useless.
Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
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Simile (si’-mi-lee): An explicit comparison, often (but not necessarily) employing “like” or “as.”
Truth is like an endless tube of toothpaste–the more you squeeze it, the more you get out of it.
Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
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Simile (si’-mi-lee): An explicit comparison, often (but not necessarily) employing “like” or “as.”
He was so closed-minded that trying to get him to change his mind was like trying to push an armored car up a hill with a lawn tractor.
Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
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