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25 самых смешных аналогий в школьных сочинениях (по-английски).
Некоторые просто великолепны!

"John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met."

"He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree."

"He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something."

"He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it."

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[cema.livejournal.com]

Why, the last one is good, tongue-in-cheek style.

[lev.livejournal.com]

5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.