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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Ignorant
 
  Ignorant as a pig is of the side pocket of a pool table.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Ignorant as a bookseller.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  2
  As invincibly ignorant as a town-fop judging of a new play.
            —John Dryden		  3
  Ignorant as a Tripoline ambassador, or an envoy from Mujac.
            —Oliver Goldsmith		  4
  Ignorant as a raw kitchen wench.
            —George Meredith		  5
  The ignorant person is like a cock out of season, which crows at midnight.
            —Osmanli Proverb		  6
  Ignorant as dirt.
            —William Shakespeare		  7
  Ignorant as a child.
            —Henry D. Thoreau		  8
 
 
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