A-Z Database
see Cat on hot bricks
To take to something like a duck to water means to take to something easily and readily as if it was second nature. Ducks like all water birds are bor...
see Fart in a colander
see Fart in a trance
see Fish out of water
A simile that expresses immediacy or spontaneity as in ‘to get on like a house on fire’ which signifies an instant rapport or kindred spirit, very muc...
Act meekly in the face of adversity without putting up a fight. The source is the Bible, Isaiah 53: 7, “He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.” Chr...
see Lead balloon
see Rat up a drain pipe
see Stand out like a sore thumb
see Stand out like a spare prick at a wedding
see Stuck record
To behave quietly and unexpectedly for which the source is the New Testament Thessalonians I, 5:2 “The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the nig...
A simile for great speed or extremely fast and dates from the early 20th century. The tracer bullet is a British invention from WWI and was introduced...
see Trooper