Really Bad Analogies Written by High School Students
(For a similar Post a few years back, see Student Analogies. I have eliminated from below duplicates in that list.)
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Her eyes were like two brown circles, with big black dots in the center.
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He was as tall as a 6′ 3″ tree.
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Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
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John and Mary never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
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She had a deep throaty, genuine laugh – like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
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The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind here, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
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He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
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Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
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the lamp just sat there, like an inanimate object.
NOTE: This collection (sent by Richard Barger), was entitled Math is like a foreign film without subtitles. I laughed, but didn’t include it in the above, since I fear that most people would consider that one to be a really good analogy! 🙁
