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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Fit (Verb)
 
  Fit as a banana skin on a banana.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Fit in like dog’s teeth.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Fits like the bark on a tree.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Fits like feathers on a duck.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Fit like the paper on the wall.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Fit into his niche like a peg into a hole.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  6
  Fits like a bathing suit coming out of the water.
            —George Broadhurst		  7
  Fits in its place, like a marble stone accurately hewn and polished.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  8
  Fits as a shell fits a crab.
            —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle		  9
  Fit as a thump with a stone in an apothecary’s eye.
            —Thomas Fuller, M. D.		  10
  Fitted into it like a brilliant into the setting of a ring.
            —William Hazlitt		  11
  Fits you like a flannel washed in hot suds.
            —O. Henry		  12
  Fit like Sunday shoes.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  13
  Fitted as does a key in a well-oiled lock.
            —Bettina von Hutten		  14
  Fit … like the leg and trouser, the hair and the comb.
            —Henrik Ibsen		  15
  Fits the present purpose like a ring to your finger.
            —Walter Savage Landor		  16
  Fit her as a helmet might a hero.
            —Amy Leslie		  17
  Fitted into each other like the artfully covered pieces of wood which composed the picture puzzles of our childhood.
            —Alexander Kielland		  18
  Fit, like wheel to nave, or joint to spit.
            —William King		  19
  Fits like a kid glove.
            —George Meredith		  20
  Fits you like a finger stuck in the mud.
            —H. W. Phillips		  21
 
 
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