# Request for a new simile

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-for-a-new-simile/62982>\
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**Created:** [April 23, 2001, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-for-a-new-simile/62982 "2001-04-23T11:22:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-for-a-new-simile/62982/1 "2001-04-23T11:22:53Z")

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I’m as sick as a dog with the current crop of similes. I’d be as happy as a lark if we could have some new onest are as good as gold. I would soon be as busy as a bee posting cool as a cucumber items that would make me as proud as a peacock.

But frankly these cliches as dull as dishwater.

pan - as swift as the wind

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**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-for-a-new-simile/62982/2 "2001-04-24T02:45:00Z")

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So, let’s see, you want a dog and a lark and gold and a bee and a cucumber and dishwater, and Pan and the wind?

What a poetic set of smilies that would be. Gets my vote! 🙂