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-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
John Ray (Handbook of Proverbs, 1670)
Capers like a fly in a tar-box.Agree like pickpockets in a fair.Commit as many absurdities as a clown in eating of an egg.Common as the highway.A covetous man is like a dog in a wheel, that roasteth meat for others.Cunning as Captn. Drake.A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept.As demure as if butter would not melt in his mouth.By fits and girds (starts), as an ague takes a goose.Full as a tick.Gaunt as a greyhound.Good as ever flew in the air.Love as the dog does a whip.His money comes from him like drops of blood.Simper like a bride on her wedding day.Welcome as flowers in May.