| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | John Ray (Handbook of Proverbs, 1670) |
| | | Capers like a fly in a tar-box. | 1 |
| Agree like pickpockets in a fair. | 2 |
| Commit as many absurdities as a clown in eating of an egg. | 3 |
| Common as the highway. | 4 |
| A covetous man is like a dog in a wheel, that roasteth meat for others. | 5 |
| Cunning as Captn. Drake. | 6 |
| A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept. | 7 |
| As demure as if butter would not melt in his mouth. | 8 |
| By fits and girds (starts), as an ague takes a goose. | 9 |
| Full as a tick. | 10 |
| Gaunt as a greyhound. | 11 |
| Good as ever flew in the air. | 12 |
| Love as the dog does a whip. | 13 |
| His money comes from him like drops of blood. | 14 |
| Simper like a bride on her wedding day. | 15 |
| Welcome as flowers in May. | 16 | | |
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