Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Absurd
Absurd as an excuse.
—Anonymous
Absurd as to ask a man if he’ll have salt on his ice cream.
—Anonymous
Absurd as to ask if the flowers love the dew.
—Anonymous
Absurd as to expect a beauty to search for her likeness in the back of a looking-glass.
—Anonymous
How absurd you must have looked with your legs and arms in the air, like a shipwrecked tea-table.
—Dion Boucicault
As absurd as for an epic poet to disdain the composition of a perfect epigram, or a consummate musician the melody of a faultless song.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Absurd as if you took a divorce petition to a chemist’s.
—Anton Chekhov
Absurd as giving bread-pills for a broken leg.
—Rudyard Kipling
Absurd as to imagine that the hair-lip or carbuncled nose a man sees in the glass, belongs to the figure in the mirror, and not to his own face.
—Bonnell Thornton