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

John Ray (Handbook of Proverbs, 1670)

Capers like a fly in a tar-box.

Agree like pickpockets in a fair.

Commit as many absurdities as a clown in eating of an egg.

Common as the highway.

A covetous man is like a dog in a wheel, that roasteth meat for others.

Cunning as Captn. Drake.

A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept.

As demure as if butter would not melt in his mouth.

By fits and girds (starts), as an ague takes a goose.

Full as a tick.

Gaunt as a greyhound.

Good as ever flew in the air.

Love as the dog does a whip.

His money comes from him like drops of blood.

Simper like a bride on her wedding day.

Welcome as flowers in May.