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* Appendix:Australian English colloquial similes Appendix:English similes A a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire American as apple pie as English as apple pie as much use as a chocolate fireguard as much use as a chocolate teapot avoid like the plague B bald as a coot bent as a nine-bob note black as coal blind as a bat bold as brass breed like rabbits bright as a button built like a brick shithouse busy as a beaver busy as a bee C calm as a millpond cheap as chips chirpy as a cricket clean as a hound's tooth clean as a whistle clear as a bell clear as mud close as wax cold as a wagon tire cold as a witch's tit cold as ice cool as a cucumber cry like a baby cry like a little girl cut like a knife cute as a bug's ear cute as a button D daft as a brush dead as a dodo dead as a doorknob dead as a doornail deaf as a doorpost deaf as a post different as chalk and cheese drink like a fish drop like flies drunk as a cunt drunk as a lord drunk as a skunk drunk as Chloe dry as a bone dry as a dead dingo's donger dull as dishwater dull as ditchwater dumb as a bag of hammers dumb as a box of rocks E easy as ABC easy as falling off a log easy as pie eat like a bird eat like a horse eat like a pig F fat as a cow fine as frog hair finer than frog hair fit as a butcher's dog fit as a fiddle fit as a lop fit like a glove

F cont. flat as a pancake float like a butterfly fly like a rock free as a bird fresh as a daisy fuck like a mink fuck like rabbits full as a goog G get on like a house on fire go down like a lead balloon go out like a light good as gold good as one's word grin like a Cheshire cat guilty as sin H happy as a clam happy as a lark happy as a pig in shit happy as Larry hard as nails hateful as a toad have a mind like a sieve high as a kite hung like a donkey hung like a horse hungry as a hog K keen as mustard kick like a mule L laugh like a drain laugh like a hyena light as a feather like a bat out of hell like a bear with a sore head like a blue-arsed fly like a bull in a china shop like a bump on a log like a cat in a strange garret like a cat on a hot tin roof like a charm like a dog in heat like a dog on heat like a dog with a bone like a duck takes to water like a hawk like a kid in a candy store like a lamb to the slaughter like a man like a million bucks like a million dollars like a ton of bricks like a train like clockwork like crack like crazy like death warmed over like feeding time at the zoo like gangbusters like hot cakes like it's going out of style like nobody's business like rats from a sinking ship like riding a bike like shooting fish in a barrel like taking candy from a baby like the back end of a bus like the clappers like the new time

L cont. like the wind like turkeys voting for an early Christmas like turkeys voting for Christmas like two peas in a pod like water off a duck's back like white on rice limber as a dishrag long as my arm M mad as a cut snake mad as a hatter mad as a March hare memory like a sieve N naked as a jaybird nervous as a cat nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs nice as pie nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat nutty as a fruitcake O off like a bride's nightie old as the hills out like a light P pissed as a newt plain as a pikestaff plain as the nose on one's face pleased as Punch pleased as punch poor as a church mouse pretty as a picture proud as a peacock pull one's head in pure as the driven snow Q quack like a duck queer as a clockwork orange quick as a flash quiet as a mouse R read like a book rich as Croesus right as a trivet right as rain rock solid run like a top S safe as houses scared as hell sharp as a tack sick as a dog sick as a parrot sing like a bird sink like a stone skinny as a rail sleep like a baby sleep like a log slippery as an eel slow as a snail slow as molasses in January sly as a fox smell like a rose smoke like a chimney smooth as a baby's bottom smooth as silk snug as a bug in a rug sober as a judge soft as a baby's bottom solid as a rock sound as a bell spread like wildfire squeal like a stuck pig

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