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MaXmOuSe Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

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0AS flat as a pancake ?02br
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00as old as the hills 02br
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00as hard as iron02br
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00as good as gold02br
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00as green as grass02br
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0 Simply write "very" + the adjective.02br
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0I'm guessing here that you are asking what these commonly heard phrases mean. The writer, in these examples, assumes that the reader, knows what a pancake is, what hills are, iron, grass, and toast. And he/she uses these objects with a descriptive term (flat, old, hard, good, green, warm) that is naturally associated with them, in order to illustrate a quality about something else that is like
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0 Additionally, these are all 01i00clichéd similes02i00, which are good as gold for verbal communication, but which should be avoided like the plague in formal writing.02br
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0For sure, MrM.02br
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00How about: "avoid it like the plague"? I bet you know a thousand of them.02br
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00I'd like to hear George Carlin do a stand-up monologue using nothing but cliched similes0-
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0very well ! thank you again for your understanding050010id1
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