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title: "Metaforer"
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url: "https://www.webforum.nu/amne/smaprat/65181-metaforer"
topic: "Småprat"
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author: "mrblonde"
published: "2003-01-17T13:41:36.000Z"
updated: "2003-01-17T20:56:30.000Z"
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# Metaforer

## #1 — mrblonde, 2003-01-17T13:41Z

Metaphors Found in NSW Year 12 English essays
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NSW = New South Wales, Australia

Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two  sides
gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience,  like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar  eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it  and now goes around the country speaking at high schools  about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he  was
room-temperature prime English beef.

She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog  makes just before it throws up.

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.

The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated  because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock,  like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free  ATM.

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a 
bowling ball wouldn't.

McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag  filled with vegetable soup.

From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an  eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in  another city and "Sex in the City" comes on at 7:00 p.m.  instead of 7:30.

Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot oil.

John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who  had also never met.

Even in his last years, Grandad had a mind like a steel trap,  only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted  shut.

The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.

"Oh, Jason, take me!"; she panted, her breasts heaving like a  Uni student on $1-a-beer night.

He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.

The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender  leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard  bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.

She was as easy as the TV Guide crossword

She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing  legs.

It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall

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## #2 — Engine^, 2003-01-17T13:48Z

Hehehe!

Alltid trevligt att få sig ett gott skratt på Fredagseftermiddan :e

Permalänk: https://www.webforum.nu/p/917863

## #3 — OveRRidE, 2003-01-17T14:06Z

> He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, **as if she were a garbage truck backing up.**

ROFL :e

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## #4 — niko, 2003-01-17T14:33Z

:e

Kan inte låta bli att fylla på med lite citat från metafor-mästaren himself: Black Adder.

"She's as subtle as a rhinosourus's horn up the backside."

"The only way you'll be getting a messy wet kiss is if you're passing a water closet." 

"Death and famine stalk the land like two great .. eh, stalking things." 

"Size doesn't matter my friend. It's where you put it."

"Nursie, am I glad to see you or did someone put a canoe in my pocket?" 

"Baldric, you have the intellectual capacity of a dirty potato." 

"I'm as bored as a pacifist pistol."

Permalänk: https://www.webforum.nu/p/917892

## #5 — :stefan:, 2003-01-17T20:56Z

Charmigt värre! :e

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