{"id":68,"date":"2006-05-24T19:41:12","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T18:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/24\/as-mad-as-a-box-of-frogs\/"},"modified":"2006-05-24T19:41:12","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T18:41:12","slug":"as-mad-as-a-box-of-frogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"As mad as a box of frogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this post is an example of a simile, a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds, and which usually starts with <em>as<\/em> or <em>like<\/em>. Some examples of well know similes include, as slippery as an eel, as busy as a bee, as thick as two short planks, and as easy as falling off a log.<\/p>\n<p>The word simile comes from the Latin <em>simile<\/em> (something similiar) from <em>similis<\/em> (like).<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few less well know \/ freshly minted ones:<\/p>\n<p>as reliable as a fox wearing a cravat<br \/>\nas dextrous as an octopus using seven pairs of scissors<br \/>\nas easy as herding cats<br \/>\nas spotty as a teenage leopard<br \/>\nas doomed to failure as a bouncy castle birthday party for hedgehogs<br \/>\nlike a duck to custard<br \/>\nlike lambs to the mint sauce<br \/>\nas big as a very big thing<br \/>\nas happy as a Frenchman who&#8217;s invented a pair of self-removing trousers (from <em>Black Adder<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Have you spotted or coined any interesting or bizarre similes recently?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this post is an example of a simile, a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds, and which usually starts with as or like. Some examples of well know similes include, as slippery as an eel, as busy as a bee, as thick as two short planks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,59,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-similes","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}