Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Collapse
Collapsed like a house of cards.
—Anonymous
Collapse, like the Apostle in the pictures of the Conversion of St. Paul.
—William De Morgan
Like a dissolving palace of snow, it collapses.
—Thomas De Quincey
Collapse like the cheeks of a starved man.
—Charles Dickens
Collapses like a pricked bladder.
—George Bernard Shaw