Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Fit (Adverb)
Fit as a rope for a thief.
—Anonymous
Fit as a shoulder of mutton for a sick horse.
—Anonymous
Fit as a fiddle.
—William Haughton
Fit as a saddle for a sow.
—Vincent Stuckey Lean (Collectanea)
As fit as a pudding for a dogges mouth.
—John Lyly
Fit as a fritter for a friar’s mouth.
—English Proverb
As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney, as your French crown for your taffeta punk, as Tib’s rush for Tom’s fore-finger, as pancake for Shrove-Tuesday, a morris for May-day, as the nail to his hole, the cuckold to his horn, as a scolding queen to a wrangling knave, as the nun’s lip to the friar’s mouth; nay, as the pudding to his skin.
—William Shakespeare
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
—Old Testament