Thy Breath Is Also Like Baseball, and Chevrolet

I’m always charmed by a good simile, and I found this one in a 1589 work called Menophon.

It’s by Robert Greene, and it’s kind of a pastoral romance.

And in it, he says, thy breath is like the steam of apple pies.

Oh, boy.

If that was the compliment you gave me on a first date, I would probably end up being married.

That’s a really great compliment.

Isn’t it nice?

It is very nice.

But the steam of apple pie.

The steam, yeah.

Breathe it in.

Your thoughts are like the steam of apple pies.

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