Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Crooked
Crooked as a snake with the colic.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams
Crooked as a dog’s hind leg.
—Anonymous
Crooked as a gimlet.
—Anonymous
Crooked as a ram’s horn.
—Anonymous
Crooked as Crawley brook.
—Anonymous
Crooked as Robin Hood’s bow.
—Anonymous
So crooked he could hide behind a corkscrew.
—Anonymous
So crooked he could sleep in a roundhouse.
—Anonymous
Crooked as the streets of Boston.
—Arlo Bates
Crooked runs
Like a Turk verse along a scimitar.
—Robert Browning
Crooked as the letter Z.
—Francis Grose (Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue)
As crooked as a cammocke.
—John Lyly
Crooked as an auger.
—Otheman Stevens