Analogies and Metaphores

My brother brought home this newspaper article that was all about strange analogies and metaphores that high school students have actually used in their papers...I laughed at some so I thought I would share some of the best ones...

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

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

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

The revelation that his marriage of 30 years was over because if his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.

From teh attic came an unearthly howl. THe whole scene had an eeire surreal qaulity, like when you're in another city and Jeopardy! come on at 7pm instead of 7:30.

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

Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two frieght trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36pm travelling at 55mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19pm at a speed of 35mph.

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.

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

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

The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender le behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

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

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