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| Barren as a Pope’s Bull. | 1 |
| Go to the bottom of things, like a custom house officer. | 2 |
| Cruel as the pinch of a painless dentist. | 3 |
| Curiosity is like a locksmith, who departs when the door is opened. | 4 |
| Dark as a dead man in the ground. | 5 |
| Dead as desire in the dead. | 6 |
| Dim as the dream of a dream that was dreamed. | 7 |
| Disturbing as an unopened telegram. | 8 |
| About as easy as to gather a bag of feathers thrown to the four winds. | 9 |
| Flat as an excuse. | 10 |
| Foolish, as to look for a rainbow in the night. | 11 |
| Frequent as telegraph poles on a railway journey. | 12 |
| Handsome as a hackman’s hat. | 13 |
| Harmless as reptiles kept in spirits. | 14 |
| Impatient as a hungry infant. | 15 |
| Intolerable as a fortunate fool. | 16 |
| Kind as consent. | 17 |
| Low as a baboon’s forehead. | 18 |
| Push on—like ambition. | 19 |
| Most questions are like a plank: have two sides. | 20 |
| Rushed like the hot blood in the veins of a fever-stricken child. | 21 |
| Shameless as a nude statue. | 22 |
| Silent, like a sundial in the shade. | 23 |
| Startles like a pistol shot at a wedding. | 24 |
| Stupid as hounds chasing an iron deer. | 25 |
| Thirsty as Tantalus. | 26 |
| Unelastic as a mathematical fact. | 27 |
| United, like a hook and eye. | 28 |
| Unseen as a disbanded rainbow. | 29 |
| Vehement as party spleen. | 30 |
| Volatile as a bell. | 31 |
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