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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Agree
 
  Agree like pikes in a pond, ready to eat up one another.
            —Thomas Adams		  1
  Agree like finger and thumb.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Agree like the hare and the hound.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Agree together as harp and harrow.
            —Thomas Becon		  4
  Agree like a bell and its clapper.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  5
  Agrees like the note with its measure.
            —Dante		  6
  Agree like Dogges and Cattes.
            —Stephen Gosson		  7
  Agree together like bells.
            —Knacke to Knowe a Knave, A (1584)		  8
  Agree as Lent and fishmongers.
            —John Marston		  9
  Agreement is like the uniting of two halves of a seal.
            —Mencius		  10
  Agree like the wax and the wick of the candle.
            —Richard Percival		  11
  Agree like pickpockets in a fair.
            —John Ray (Handbook of Proverbs, 1670)		  12
  Agree like married music in Love’s answering air.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  13
  Agree as wasp doth with bee.
            —Thomas Tusser		  14
  Agree as Angels do above.
            —Edmund Edmund Waller		  15
 
 
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