For that saying of yours I find an apt simile.

I thought he might have found a more apt simile, but I held my peace.

To use the homely but apt simile of

Then you will understand Proclus's apt simile.

What an apt simile is this for the "great mass of American wealth," in Dr. Abbott's portrayal of it!

"Hardly an apt simile!"

"He means with other hackers, but comparing it to a doctor and an unusual illness is actually quite an apt simile."