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

Fit (Verb)

Fit as a banana skin on a banana.
—Anonymous

Fit in like dog’s teeth.
—Anonymous

Fits like the bark on a tree.
—Anonymous

Fits like feathers on a duck.
—Anonymous

Fit like the paper on the wall.
—Anonymous

Fit into his niche like a peg into a hole.
—Honoré de Balzac

Fits like a bathing suit coming out of the water.
—George Broadhurst

Fits in its place, like a marble stone accurately hewn and polished.
—Thomas Carlyle

Fits as a shell fits a crab.
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Fit as a thump with a stone in an apothecary’s eye.
—Thomas Fuller, M. D.

Fitted into it like a brilliant into the setting of a ring.
—William Hazlitt

Fits you like a flannel washed in hot suds.
—O. Henry

Fit like Sunday shoes.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fitted as does a key in a well-oiled lock.
—Bettina von Hutten

Fit … like the leg and trouser, the hair and the comb.
—Henrik Ibsen

Fits the present purpose like a ring to your finger.
—Walter Savage Landor

Fit her as a helmet might a hero.
—Amy Leslie

Fitted into each other like the artfully covered pieces of wood which composed the picture puzzles of our childhood.
—Alexander Kielland

Fit, like wheel to nave, or joint to spit.
—William King

Fits like a kid glove.
—George Meredith

Fits you like a finger stuck in the mud.
—H. W. Phillips