Significados de old simile em inglês

I might take up my old simile of the race-horse and cart-horse.

What an old , old simile that is, between man and timber!

It is an old simile, but she was like a beautiful painting of a cherub.

So I left her and galloped straight into the lion's den-touse an old simile.

To "talk like paying out rope" is an old simile.

The most obtuse could not have failed to read the old simile of the steel in the velvet.

The sight of that propagandist document affected him, to use the old simile, as scarlet does a bull.

'His old simile,' said Charley; 'he was always talking about literary salads.'

France was attacked by a dragon, and the old similes of mythology floated through his mind, but, oftenest, that of Andromeda chained to the rock.