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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 tradesmans dummy. Thomas Hood | 5 |
Deaf as a nailthat you cannot hammer a meaning into. Thomas Hood | 6 |
She was deaf as a nutfor nuts, no doubt, Are deaf to the grub thats hollowing out. Thomas Hood | 7 |
Deaf as a stonesay 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 Pharaohs mothers mothers 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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