English Analogies

"English Analogies"*

*11. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

12. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers
raced across the grassy field toward each other like two
freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m.
traveling west at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19
p.m. traveling east at a speed of 35 mph.

13. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with
picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.

14. John and Mary had never met. They were like two humming-
birds who had also never met.

15. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and
she was the East River.

16. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel
trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.

17. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But
unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

18. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get
from not eating for a while.

19. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck,
either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from
stepping on a land mine or something.

20. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he
heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
Received on Fri Feb 6 12:16:41 2009