Thursday, November 20, 2008

Colourful metaphors

A Factorial reader sent me some metaphors from NSW Year 12 essays. I thought you might enjoy them.

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

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.

McBride fell 12 storeys, hitting the pavement like a supermarket bag filled with vegetable soup.

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

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

You can read more of these metaphors at http://www.esau.com.au/forums/thread/245763

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