George Bernard Shaw Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

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

George Bernard Shaw


Collapses like a pricked bladder.	1
Curled like the coat of a poodle.	2
Immediately, like a repeating clock of which the spring has been touched.	3
Nervous as a mouse.	4
Old as the shepherds.	5
Pitifully as a poor girl of the pavement will pretend to be a clergyman’s daughter.	6
Popular as a film drama.	7
Quails like a naughty child.	8
Shivering as if a bullet had struck him.	9
I sank under it like a baby fed on starch.	10
Solid as bricks.	11
Stimulating as ginger cordial.	12
Sweep it away like a leaf before a hurricane.	13
Tolerate as lions tolerate lice.	14
Unimaginative as a Chicago pig-sticking.	15
Universal as seasickness.	16
Useless as the canal constructor without water.	17
White as isinglass.	18
Whitens like steel in a furnace.	19