Block that metaphor
Cutting loose a hot potato.
“So smooth and clear”
A Eudora Welty variation on Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Simile of the day
"It’s like they hitched their wagon to a time bomb.”
Mike Pompeo, heat-seeking missile
“He’s like a heat-seeking missile for Trump’s ass.”
The limits of simile
Watching Donald Trump respond to reporters’ questions earlier today, I thought, “This is like watching a train wreck.” Except that train wrecks are over quickly and don’t lie. (“No collision.”) They’re honest about the damage they inflict.
Scabs and banjos
Chris Matthews, speaking of Donald Trump on Meet the Press today : “He knows he can find the issues that rip the scab off this cultural divide, and he plays it like a banjo.”
Block that simile
“Like gas in a car, . . . .”
Searching for a simile
This Google search brought a seeker to these pages: “homeric simile about assholes.”
A Homeric Faulkner simile
It’s in As I Lay Dying.
Smith going backward
Like the punchline “No soap, radio,” the simile sounds as if it means something, but what?
A Van Dyke Parks simile
A simile to describe SMiLE
Analogy
Similes, metaphors, analogies: from xkcd
"[J]ust like a good flu shot"
Van Dyke Parks on touring
Cigarettes and similes
David Sedaris on Kools and Kool Milds
Bad simile of the day
Bill Clinton is scheduled to visit Pembroke, North Carolina, today: Charles Locklear dined on fried chicken and cabbage as he talked about f...
Political tropes of the day
The campaign aides cited in this New York Times article do just fine. But watch the reporter overreach: One aide wearily compared the cam...
Ept simile of the day
Like The Beatles
Cigarettes and similes
"Love is like a cigarette."
Like hell
On the vagaries of search engines