Idle Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Idle


Idle as digging in the bottom of the river for the stars we see reflected on the surface. —Anonymous	1
Idle as railing at a deaf man. —Anonymous	2
Idle as to aim at inscrutable things beyond the moon. —Anonymous	3
Idle as a lazzarone. —Joseph Ashby-Sterry	4
As idle as a dial when the sun Sulks in the clouds. —Alfred Austin	5
Idle as the stroke of a cane on the hide of rhinoceros. —Edward Bulwer-Lytton	6
Idle as air. —Alice Cary	7
As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge	8
Idle, as the dreams of maids. —Walter Harte	9
Idle as a summer noon. —Omar Khayyám	10
Looks idle, perhaps, and foolish, like a hat on its block in the store. —Joyce Kilmer	11
Idle, and mean as a collier’s whelp. —Rudyard Kipling	12