Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Meaningless

Meaningless as shredded hay.
—Franklin P. Adams

Meaningless as an imprint on a wornout coin.
—Anonymous

Meaningless, like the head of a corpse.
—Joseph Conrad

Meaningless as the boom of waves in a drowning head.
—Edith Wharton