LAS LENGUAS INGLESA Y ESPAÑOLA de Delfín Carbonell

  My Random House Webster's Dictionary defined simile as "a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in she is like a rose.” I remember (those were the days!) reading in 2003, the Bonita Daily News , Florida, on July 11, this comparison or simile with ugly: “That new pharmacy is an assault to my eyes; it is everything the LPA is supposed to stop! It is a big box, ugly as sin itself, a monstrosity.” This led me to delve deeply and find more "ugly" possibilities in current English:  Ugly as sin (a toad,  butt ugly, fuck, the devil, shit, death, a face that would stop a clock, as cat shit, piss-ugly, pug ugly, hell, as it gets, as can be ).       I did not stop here, remember this is a bilingual Blog. How does "feo" fare in Spanish? And I found the following:  Más feo que un pecado (Picio, Carracuca, un dolor, el hambre, el bu, Quasimodo,  que pegarle a un padre [con un calcetín sudado], feo del culo, feo con...

Similes or comparisons Más largo que un día sin pan is a Spanish simile where something long is compared to a day without eating which may seem long to a hungry person. Similes compare two things using the words as or like. Similes are found in both languages in speech and in writing: Spanish : Claro como el agua. Hablar como un loro. Comer como una lima. Sordo como una tapia. Oscuro como boca de lobo. Más fresco que una lechuga. Pelearse como el perro y el gato Más contento que unas Pascuas English : As busy as a bee (or beaver.) As happy as a king (or clam or lark.) As brave as a lion. As clear as a bell. Dry as a bone. As sick as a dog. As deaf as a post. As blind as a bat. Fight like cats and dogs. (Los franceses dicen que alguien que habla el francés mal, lo habla como una vaca española: "Parler français comme une vache espagnole."