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as languid as a love-sick maid |
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as light as thistle down |
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as large as life |
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as like as two herring |
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as lasting as the pyramids |
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as like as two beans |
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as lavish as the moon |
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as like as two peas |
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as lawful as eating |
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as like as two drops of water |
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as lawless as the stormy wind |
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as lithe as a panther ( as a tiger ) |
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as lax as cut string |
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as little as Tom Thumb |
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as lazy as a toad ( as a lobster ) |
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as little as a squirrel |
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as lazy as a pig |
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as lively as a cricket |
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as lazy as a ship in the doldrums |
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as loathsome as a toad |
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as lean as Sancho's ass ( as a lath ) |
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as lonely as a deserted ship ( as the Arctic Sea ) |
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as lean as a skeleton |
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as loose as a rope of sand ('loose' here means 'incoherent' as of
a person's speech) |
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as lenient as soft opiates to the mind |
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as loquacious as Polonius |
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as level as a pond |
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as loud as a horn |
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as liberal as the sun |
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as loud as thunder |
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as lifeless as the grave |
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as lovely as Venus |
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as light as down |
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as lovely as the violet |
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as light as air |
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as low as the grave |
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as light as a butterfly ( 'light' here is opposed to 'grave') |
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as lowly as a slave |
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as light as a cork |
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as loyal as an apostle |
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as light as a feather ('light here is opposed to 'heavy' ) |
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as loyal as a dove |
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