A Way With Words

Olga sent me one of those funny emails ... which was great because I've been too busy lately to think of something to blog about!

"Every year, English teachers from across the USA can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country."

Here are my top 10 favourites from the winner's list:

1. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli, and he was room temperature Canadian beef.

2. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.

3. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.

4. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

5. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.

6. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

7. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River.

8. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

9. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.

10. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.