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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Vice-President

The Vice-President of the United States is like a man in a cataleptic state: he can not speak; he can not move; he suffers no pain, and yet he is perfectly conscious of everything that is going on about him.
—Thomas Riley Marshall