Look (Verb) Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

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

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Looks as if butter would not melt in his mouth. —Anonymous	1
Looked as if he would jump down your throat. —Anonymous	2
Looked as if he had eaten his bed-straw. —Anonymous	3
He looked like a composite picture of five thousand orphans too late to catch a picnic steamboat. —O. Henry	4
Look like the far end o’ a French fiddle. —Alexander Hislop (Proverbs of Scotland)	5
To look as if he were hanged already. —Sir John Taylor	6
She looks like an old coach new painted, affecting an unseemly smugness, whilst she is ready to drop to pieces. —Sir John Vanbrugh	7