I got a really bad cold two days ago and felt like death warmed up. Like with food, the idea is that you feel like death (bad), but then reheated (even worse). I love my husband to bits (very much), but he eats like a pig sometimes! 15. To eat food in an unpleasant or messy manner. That Maths exam the other week was a piece of piss. In British slang, we can also say a piece of piss to mean something is very easy to do – e.g. Similes with the same meaning include easy as pie and like riding a bike (about habits). I managed to do this week’s crossword in under 5 minutes. When something is very easy or simple to do. I haven’t watered my pot plants in ages and the soil is as dry as a bone. To refer to something being completely dry. Half of my colleagues are off work with flu. This can also be used to say many people are ill or out of action. It means when living beings die in their masses (many die). One stereotype of Brits is that they drink like fish. To regularly drink excessive amounts of alcohol. I called Mark’s name three times, but he didn’t hear me. It means when someone’s hearing is very bad. This is similar to the meaning of ‘as blind as a bat’, but for hearing instead. It means someone extremely foolish and silly.Ī: Did you see Steve wearing that massive hat down the pub the other night?ī: Yeah, that lad’s daft as a brush, mate! 9. This is a funny expression from the north of England. You could say that person is ‘cool as a cucumber’. You panic, but one of your colleagues remains calm. Imagine your boss has given you and your colleagues a deadline in five minutes. They remain calm even when under pressure. Used to describe someone who does not get easily stressed out. I tried reading Dante’s Inferno the other day. Used ironically to mean something is extremely unclear in meaning. I’ve scrubbed the house from top to bottom. This can mean physically very clean and tidy or “clean” in the sense of 100% legal (not dodgy or against the law). Happy days! Got these earrings for five quid in the sales – cheap as chips, mate! 5. It literally means the item we are buying is more or less the same price as a portion of chips (or French fries as Americans say). We use this to refer to something very inexpensive. The opposite would be not the sharpest tool in the box. We can also use the noun bright button as in: My daughter’s a bright button. When you refer to someone as being clever.
I’m as blind as a bat! I thought I saw someone I knew and waved at them, but it turned out it was a complete stranger! 3. When you stay away from someone or something as much as possible for negative reasons.ī: No, I hate revising. List of 50 most common similes (with meanings & examples) 1.
Do not confuse these expressions with normal metaphors that do not contain ‘as’ or ‘like’. In everyday spoken English, we usually drop the first ‘as’, so the simile shortens to just e.g.
(Download)Ī simile describes one thing by comparing it to something else using the words ‘as’ or ‘like’.
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