Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Sharp
As sharp as a razor.
—Anonymous
Sharp as a steel trap.
—Anonymous
Sharp as a tiger’s tooth.
—Anonymous
As sharp as if he lived on Tewksbury mustard.
—Anonymous
Sharp as the bristles of a hedgehog.
—Anonymous
Sharp as the tooth of time.
—Anonymous
Sharp as vinegar.
—Anonymous
Sharp, like the shrill swallow’s cry.
—Anonymous
So sharp that you could shave a sleeping mouse without waking her.
—Anonymous
Sharp as the little end of nothing.
—J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms
Sharp, like the crack of a pistol.
—R. D. Blackmore
A pang as sharp as ever wrenched confession from the lips of a prisoner in the cells of the Inquisition.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Like the prick of a needle, duly sharp.
—Thomas Carlyle
Sharpe as brere.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Sharp as the gore-soaked lashes
Of men’s whips.
—Eliza Cook
Sharp as a winter’s morning.
—Richard Corbet
Sharp-sighted as a hawk.
—Richard Cumberland
Sharp like the claws of ravening beasts.
—John Fox
Sharp as the bee-sting.
—James Grainger
Sharp like a quince.
—William Hazlitt
Sharp as a handsaw.
—John Heywood
Sharp as her needle.
—John Heywood
Sharp as a beak.
—Victor Hugo
Sharp as truth.
—Victor Hugo
Sharp as frost.
—Eric Mackay
Sharp as a sickle is the edge of shade and shine.
—George Meredith
Sharp as the enchanter’s sword.
—George Meredith
Sharp as a ferret at a field-rat’s hole.
—Dinah Maria Mulock
Sharp as a sword drawn from a shuddering wound.
—Alfred Noyes
Sharp as thistles are.
—Ovid
Short and sharp, like a donkey’s gallop.
—Samuel Pegge
Sharp as javelins.
—John Ruskin
Sharp as dirk rammed down in its sheath.
—Duncan. C. Scott
Sharp as my needle.
—William Shakespeare
More sharp than filed steel.
—William Shakespeare
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child.
—William Shakespeare
Nose was as sharp as a pen.
—William Shakespeare
Sharp as his spur.
—William Shakespeare
Sharp as a bayonet.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sharp as tenterhooks.
—John Skelton
Sharp as … oyster strumpet.
—Jonathan Swift
Sharp as the north sets when the snows are out.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
More sharp than is the naked side of war.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Sharp as a terrier.
—Tom Taylor
Sharp as reproach.
—Alfred Tennyson
Sharp as a two-edged sword.
—Old Testament
Sharper than a thorn.
—Old Testament
Sharp as a thistle.
—Towneley Mysteries, or Miracle Plays