Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Full
Full as a goat.
—Anonymous
As full as a toad is of poison.
—Anonymous
Full of airs as a music box.
—Anonymous
Full of angles as the book of Euclid.
—Anonymous
As full of blunders as a successful career.
—Anonymous
Full of events as a dime novel.
—Anonymous
Full of poetry as a lily is of dew.
—Anonymous
Full of royalty as a pack of cards.
—Anonymous
Full of terror as a tragedy of Sophocles.
—Anonymous
Full of maggots as a pastoral poet’s flock.
—Samuel Butler
Full as the hyve is of honey.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Full of company as a jail.
—Thomas Dekker
Full as a bee with thyme.
—Robert Herrick
Full of life as a multitude.
—Victor Hugo
Chock full of noble sentiments as a bladder is of wind.
—Jerome K. Jerome
Full as a piper’s bag.
—Ben Jonson
Full of noise as a mill.
—Vincent Stuckey Lean (Collectanea)
Full of life and light and sweetness
As a summer day’s completeness.
—James Russell Lowell
Full of fragrant love as May’s musk-roses are of morning’s wine.
—Gerald Massey
Full of folds as a sleeping boa-constrictor.
—William Mathews
Full of passion as a tiger.
—Brander Matthews
Full as a tick.
—John Ray (Handbook of Proverbs, 1670)
As fu’ as a biled wulk.
—Scottish Proverb
As fu’ as a piper.
—Scottish Proverb
As fu’ as the Baltic.
—Scottish Proverb
Full as a plenteous river.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
As full of labour as a wise man’s art.
—William Shakespeare
Full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat.
—William Shakespeare
Full of spirit as the month of May.
—William Shakespeare
As full of sorrows as the seas of sands.
—William Shakespeare
Full as a cup with the vine’s burning dew.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
As full of wisdom as a cheese of mites.
—Edmund Spenser
Full as a feaster’s hand
Fills full with bloom of bland
Bright wine his cup.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
—Old Testament
Full as the summer rose.
—James Thomson