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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Deaf
 
  Deaf as a post.
            —Anonymous		  1
  As deaf as a beetle.
            —Anonymous		  2
  As deaf as a white cat.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Deaf as a door.
            —Nicholas Breton		  4
  Deaf as any tradesman’s dummy.
            —Thomas Hood		  5
  Deaf as a nail—that you cannot hammer a meaning into.
            —Thomas Hood		  6
She was deaf as a nut—for nuts, no doubt,
Are deaf to the grub that’s hollowing out.
            —Thomas Hood		  7
Deaf as a stone—say one of the stones
Demosthenes sucked to improve his tones;
And surely deafness no further could reach
Than to be in his mouth without hearing his speech.
            —Thomas Hood		  8
  Deaf as bricks.
            —Thomas Hood		  9
  Deaf as God and Magog.
            —Thomas Hood		  10
  Deaf as Pharaoh’s mother’s mother’s mummy.
            —Thomas Hood		  11
As deaf, alas! as the dead and forgotten—
(Gray has noticed the waste of breath,
In addressing the “dull, cold ear of death”).Thomas Hood		  12
Deaf as the still-born figures of Madame Tussaud,
With their eyes of glass, and their hair of flax,
That only stare whatever you “ax,”
For their ears, you know, are nothing but wax.
            —Thomas Hood		  13
  Deafe as an adder.
            —Ben Jonson		  14
  Deaf as winds when seamen pray.
            —Lee		  15
  Deaf as the billows.
            —Ovid		  16
  As deaf as Ailsa Craig.
            —Scottish Proverb		  17
  Deaf as the sea.
            —William Shakespeare		  18
  Deaf as a shad.
            —Sam Slick		  19
  Deaf as fire.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  20
  More deaf than trees.
            —Edmund Waller		  21
 
 
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