Even More Shredded Similies & Mutilated Metaphors


For your entertainment, even more actual similes and metaphors found by high school English teachers from across the country in their student's essays.

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


- Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.


- They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.


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


- He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River.


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


- Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

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