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

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

Stick


Sticking as close together as two dried figs. —Anonymous	1
Sticks like a cockle burr to a sheep’s coat. —Anonymous	2
Stick like a leech. —Anonymous	3
Sticks like a porous plaster. —Anonymous	4
Sticks like fly paper. —Anonymous	5
Stick like wax. —Anonymous	6
Stick like a Comanche on a mustang. The worse it jumps, the tighter he sticks. —J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms	7
Stick to it, like a clenched nail. —R. D. Blackmore	8
Stick to her point like a fox to his own tail. —Dion Boucicault	9
Stick like burrs. —John Bunyan	10
Sticks as close … as a shadow to a body. —Robert Burton	11
Stick like pitch. —William Congreve	12
Sticks like a weasel. —Oliver Goldsmith	13
Stuck together like a sheet of buns. —Oliver Wendell Holmes	14
Sticks to me like a bobolink on a sapling, in a wood. —Sylvester Judd	15
Stick as close as my shirt does to my back on a sultry, sweating day. —London Chanticleers	16
Like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree. —William Shakespeare	17
Stick like rust. —Cyril Tourneur	18
Stick … as a country postmaster to his offiss. —Artemus Ward	19