Rhetorical comparisons

• "Happy as a clam" and "blind as a bat"
• Animal analogies, often
• Fit as a fiddle and tough as nails
• "Fresh as a daisy" and others
• Figures of speech often including "as a"
• Phrases with "as a" in the middle
• "Good as gold" and "fresh as a daisy"
• "Like" things?
• Plath ploys

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n. (plural of simile English)