Common Similes

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ageless agile alert alike angry arid awkward bald beautiful big bitter black blunt blind bold blue brainless brown busy cheap cheerful cheerless clean clear clumsy

sun flee chamois two peas, twins wasp Sahara cow on ice billiard ball, coot sunset, rainbow whale ginger, quince ebony, coal, soot, pitch back end of knife a bat lion, brass indigo, forget-me-not chimpanzee a berry, cherry bee lies birds death a new pin crystal, day, mud pig

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large lasting lazy light loud lovely loyal mad meek miserable mysterious near old open opposite plain pleased quick quiet rare red regular right safe

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cold contagious

corpse, ice yawn

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serious seedy

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contrary cool costly cozy countless cunning deaf deceptive different difficult dirty

day & night, black & white cucumber election bird's nest stars a fox a post mirage chalk and/from cheese beginning dog

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disappointing distant drunk dry eager easy fat far fit flat fresh gentle good greedy green happy hairy hairless hard helpless honest hot hungry invisible

wet gun powder horizon a lord, newt a bone bridegroom Anything/ pie/ A,B,C porpoise poles a fiddle pancake daisy, a dew a lamb, fawn gold pig, a cormorant grass, lawn king, lark, the day is long spider, tarantula egg nails, granite infant mirror hell hunter air

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scarce

shameless shapeless sharp silent slippery small soft sour steady strong stubborn, obstinate sure, true sweet thirsty tough true ugly unconquerable unprofitable useful vast violent warm warty weak welcome wet white wide yellow zigzag

life pyramid frog a feather thunder Venus dove hatter, a March hare, hell lamb sin echo dammit the hills smile poles the nose on your face punch lightening, a flash grave, mouse blue rose rose clockwork rain houses hair on palm of the hand feathers on fish, hen's teeth owl, drunk strawberry, raspberry, dried fig nude statue old boots a needle, thistle, razor the grave eel, ice atom putty vinegar a rock horse, ox a mule I’m sitting, standing here honey sponge leather, old boots steel scarecrow chewing gum, wave smoke cow eternity steam toast toad a baby, kitten rainstorm in hell fish snow, chalk, a sheet hope saffron lightening