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!
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