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Question
Given below are some idiomatic comparisons with ‘like’. Can you guess their meaning? Look them up in a good dictionary. You won’t find them under ‘like’. Which words will you look up to find these comparisons?
- Like a bull in a china shop (Here, china means delicate articles of porcelain)
- Like a cat on a hot tin roof.
- Like a red rag to a bull.
- Like a cat that stole the cream.
- Like water off a duck’s back.
- Memory like a sieve.
Using your imagination write more comparisons using ‘like’
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Solution
- Like a cat on a hot tin roof: Very nervous or restless.
- Like a red rag to a bull: Something bound to provoke anger.
- Like a cat that stole the cream: Looking very pleased, especially self-satisfied.
- Like water off a duck's back: Criticism or insults that do not affect the person they were directed at.
- Memory like a sieve: A very poor memory, forgetting things easily.
- Like shooting fish in a barrel: Doing something very easy, with guaranteed success.
- Like a kid in a candy store: Being very excited and enthusiastic, often about many of choices.
- Like watching paint dry: Describing something uninteresting.
- Like a peacock in full display: Acting proudly or showily, trying to impress others.
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