| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | English Proverb |
| | | Bad as the fighting bull of Stamford. | 1 |
| Bad as two kings of Brentford. | 2 |
| Bald as a coot. | 3 |
| Bare as a bird’s tail. | 4 |
| Bare as the birch at Yule. | 5 |
| Always behind, like a donkey’s tail. | 6 |
| Looking as big as bull-beef. | 7 |
| Dumb as a mouse. | 8 |
| Fit as a fritter for a friar’s mouth. | 9 |
| Glad as a fowl of a fair day. | 10 |
| As hasty as Hopkins, that came to jail over night and was hanged the next morning. | 11 |
| As innocent as a devil of two years old. | 12 |
| Kindness, like grain, increases by sowing. | 13 |
| As merry as a grig. | 14 |
| Proud as a lord’s bastard. | 15 | | |
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