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

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

George Farquhar


Changeable as a woman’s whims.	1
The theatre is like a Turkish seraglio: The critics are the eunuchs.	2
Crouching about like a cat a-mousing.	3
Dead as a salmon in a fishmonger’s basket.	4
Inseparable as finger and thumb.	5
Light as the light.	6
Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks: Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks. The founder’s you: the table is this place: The carvers we: the prologue is the grace. Each act a course; each scene, a different dish, Though we’re in Lent, I doubt you’re still for flesh. Satire’s the sauce, high-seasoned, sharp, and rough. Kind masks and beaux, I hope you’re pepper-proof? Wit is the wine; but ’tis so scarce the true Poets, like vintners, balderdash and brew. Your surly scenes, where rant and bloodshed join, Are butcher’s meat, a battle’s a sirlorn. Your scenes of love, so flowing, soft and chaste, Are water-gruel without salt or taste.	7
Strong as brandy.	8
The Theatre is like a Turkish seraglio: the critics are the eunuchs.	9
Unbecoming as grace after meat.	10
Whizzes like a hot iron.	11
Women are like pictures; of no value in the hands of a fool, till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.	12