P. G. Wodehouse Quotes on Metaphor
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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 resembled a minor prophet who had been hit behind the ear with a stuffed eel-skin.
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Then he rose and began to pace the room in an overwrought sort of way, like a zoo lion who has heard the dinner-gong go and is hoping the keeper won't forget him in the general distribution.
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If you can visualize a bulldog which has just been kicked in the ribs and had its dinner sneaked by the cat, you will have Hildebrand Glossop as he now stood before me.
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I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.
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Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.
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'I want to know what the devil you mean by keeping coming into my private apartment, taking up space which I require for other purposes and interrupting me when I am chatting with my personal friends. Really one gets about as much privacy in this house as a strip-tease dancer.'
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The cosy glow which had been enveloping the Duke became shot through by a sudden chill. It was as if he had been luxuriating in a warm shower-bath, and some hidden hand had turned on the cold tap.
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Aunt Agatha is like an elephant-not so much to look at, for in appearance she resembles more a well-bred vulture, but because she never forgets.
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I agreed the situation was sticky. Indeed, offhand it was difficult to see how it could have been more glutinous.
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I'd always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn't even put her in the oven.
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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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...his head emerged cautiously, like a snail taking a look around after a thunderstorm.