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[Idioms, Sayings and other idiomatic expressions #7]

Focus: Similes

Task (1): Sleep like a log is a well-known English simile; does it occur in the corpus? (Remember to include all forms of the verb in your search.)
Task (2): What other similes containing sleep like can be found in the corpus?
Task (3): Explain what a simile is. What forms can a simile take? (Supply your answer with examples from the corpus (different from sleep like a log).)



Suggested answer:
(1) Yes, the simile sleep like a log occurs once in the corpus:
The nights in Denver are cool, and I slept like a log.

(2) Other similes including sleep like that occur in the corpus are:
He'll sleep like a baby.
She might even sleep like a brick...
He noted a female bum drunkenly sleeping like a dugong...
Sunday she slept like a stick.

(3) A simile is an expression / a figure of speech that contains a comparison that is spelled out in a phrase beginning with either like or as. Examples from the corpus:

Polly, light-footed and sharp as a needle in grasping the rhythm...
You eat like a pig and look like a rake.

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