P. G. Wodehouse Quotes on Hyperbole
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'Alf Todd,' said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, 'has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild-cat's ear with a red-hot needle.'
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He groaned slightly and winced, like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.
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Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.
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She had a beaky nose, tight thin lips, and her eye could have been used for splitting logs in the teak forests of Borneo.
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She snorted with a sudden violence which twenty-four hours earlier would have unmanned me completely. Even in my present tolerably robust condition, it affected me like one of those gas explosions which slay six.