Thursday Thirteen #7 - Analogy 101

Thirteen Hilarious Analogies for Writers and Other Word Geeks She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. His thought tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 instead of 7:30. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 pm traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19pm at a speed of 35 mph. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at the fire hydrant. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife’s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine. BTW - I can't take credit for writing these,... thank goodness! Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!)


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