Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

Some of the more successful similes in Grenville Kleiser's 1910 book Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases include the sky was like a peach and like footsteps on wool and quaking and quivering like a short-haired puppy after a ducking. This is part of a complete episode.

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