Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Stink

Stink like a polecat.
—Anonymous

Stink like carrion.
—Anonymous

Stinks like a poison’d cat behind a hanging.
—Beaumont and Fletcher

His memory stinks like the snuff of a candle when it is put out.
—Robert Burton

Stank as the pitte of helle.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Stynken as a goot.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Stinks and shines, and shines and stinks, like a dead mackerel in the moonlight.
—John Randolph

Stunk like wash-polluted pigs.
—William Tennant