Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Difficult

Difficult as a Greek puzzle.
—Anonymous

Difficult as to forgive the virtues of our enemies.
—Anonymous

Difficult as to grasp a shadow.
—Anonymous

Difficult as to hiss and yawn at the same time.
—Anonymous

Difficult as to pin a medal on a shadow.
—Anonymous

Difficult as to sail the sea in an egg shell.
—Anonymous

Difficult as to remember a rhyme made in a dream.
—Anonymous

Difficult as to walk a mile on stilts upon a line of feather-beds.
—Anonymous

Difficult as a beginning.
—Lord Byron

Difficult … as for a rattlesnake to stir without making a noise.
—C. C. Colton

Difficult as it would be to hum an air from an opera bouffe while listening to the overture of Tannhäuser.
—Arthur Jerome Eddy

Difficult to grasp as the small end of a hard boiled egg.
—Robert Edgren

As difficult … as to preserve your purse at a gaming-table or your health at a bawdy house.
—Henry Fielding

As difficult as for a slave girl to please a slave-dealer.
—Osmanli Proverb

Difficult as to distinguish colors in the darkness.
—Sir Richard Steele