[nukkad] Some actual metaphors found in exam papers of high schoolers

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Why English Teachers Retire Young

 Actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays:

 1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two
   sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

 2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances
   like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

 3. 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.

 4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E.coli and he was
   room-temperature Canadian beef.

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

 6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

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

 8. 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.

 9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way
   a bowling ball wouldn't.

10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag
   filled with vegetable soup.

11. 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 p.m.instead of 7:30.

12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when
   you fry them in hot grease.

14. 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 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other
   from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences
   that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.

16. 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.

17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was
   the East River.

18. Even in his last years, Grandpappy had a mind like a steel trap,
   only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.

19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil,
   this plan just might work.

21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not
   eating for a while.

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

23. The ballerina raised gracefully en pointe and extended one
   slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around
   with power tools.

25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard
   bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.

26. Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to
   put in any pH cleanser.

27. She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.

28. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple
   it to the wall.

Source: The Fun List.
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