Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Stink
Stink like a polecat.
—Anonymous
Stink like carrion.
—Anonymous
Stinks like a poison’d cat behind a hanging.
—Beaumont and Fletcher
His memory stinks like the snuff of a candle when it is put out.
—Robert Burton
Stank as the pitte of helle.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Stynken as a goot.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Stinks and shines, and shines and stinks, like a dead mackerel in the moonlight.
—John Randolph
Stunk like wash-polluted pigs.
—William Tennant