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

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

Deaf


Deaf as a post. —Anonymous	1
As deaf as a beetle. —Anonymous	2
As deaf as a white cat. —Anonymous	3
Deaf as a door. —Nicholas Breton	4
Deaf as any tradesman’s dummy. —Thomas Hood	5
Deaf as a nail—that you cannot hammer a meaning into. —Thomas Hood	6
She was deaf as a nut—for nuts, no doubt, Are deaf to the grub that’s hollowing out. —Thomas Hood	7
Deaf as a stone—say one of the stones Demosthenes sucked to improve his tones; And surely deafness no further could reach Than to be in his mouth without hearing his speech. —Thomas Hood	8
Deaf as bricks. —Thomas Hood	9
Deaf as God and Magog. —Thomas Hood	10
Deaf as Pharaoh’s mother’s mother’s mummy. —Thomas Hood	11
As deaf, alas! as the dead and forgotten— (Gray has noticed the waste of breath, In addressing the “dull, cold ear of death”).Thomas Hood	12
Deaf as the still-born figures of Madame Tussaud, With their eyes of glass, and their hair of flax, That only stare whatever you “ax,” For their ears, you know, are nothing but wax. —Thomas Hood	13
Deafe as an adder. —Ben Jonson	14
Deaf as winds when seamen pray. —Lee	15
Deaf as the billows. —Ovid	16
As deaf as Ailsa Craig. —Scottish Proverb	17
Deaf as the sea. —William Shakespeare	18
Deaf as a shad. —Sam Slick	19
Deaf as fire. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	20
More deaf than trees. —Edmund Waller	21