
These usages are not arranged alphabetically, but all involve comparisons using either "like" or "as." I gather these well aware the some things are "not a patch" on other things, i.e., that they do not bear comparison. Fuller information about some of these usages is on the main list. There are twenty-six files there. Just click on to the appropriate letter.
running around like a blue-arsed fly, in and out like a blue arse fly
in and out, like a fart in a collander, or up and down, like a fart in a bottle
He's up and down, like a prostitute's pants
Ee's gorran ed as big as Berkened
Ee's as queer as a nine-bob note
Ee lewks like de unchback a Knotty Ash
She gorra mouf like a parish oven
Yer gorrup like a pox-docter's clerk
Ee's as queer as a clockwerk oringe
Ee'll never be as good as Dixie
I'm spittin like a Flemish commedjun
Me gob's(mouth) like de bottom uv a berdcage
My nose is runnin like a glassblower's arse
Lushed as the landlord's cat
as daft as soft Mick
as relaxed as a cow-flop
Yer as awkward as yer 'alf-daft Da
bald as a melling
blind as a one-legged ref
buggers about like a fartna bottle
got nuts like cobbles(cobblestones)
Cold as a nun's bum
decked up like a bloody May-horse
as worn out as a donkeystone(stone used for cleaning steps, etc.)
dun up like a fo'penny rabbit
'e guv 'er a ring wit' dymins like heggs
`e come out like a busted boil
got a face like a dollop of mortal sins
got a gob like a bee's bum
got a neck like a mad giraffe
grizzle like an oven-tap
'appy as a dog wit' two dicks
like two apples in a bag: a woman with a lovely rump
mad as Barney's bull
As mad as a Mick in ther nick(jail)
don't stand there like one er Lewis's( a store mannikin)
piss along like a green goddess(city tram), to
E's randy like a butcher's dog
she guv 'im hell, like Red Hot John
(reference to a famous Salvation Army Preacher)
as ard as a breathless tally-man
totterin' along like a hen wit' ther staggers
went out like a bleed'n' light
She's gorra face like an ole manz knee
She's gorra pursnality like a nopen grave
That wons like a bleedin' `orse
Shez got legs like knotty pine
Slike a mop 'angin' over dthe bannisters(said of a woman's untidy hair)
Eez gorra backonim like a ware'ouse rat
Nossuprised ee kicked dthe buckit, used to eat like a shithouse wrat!
Eez gorra pursnality lyka lumpa dogshit
All of em had faces like a baboon's arse with ringworm.
He is as fat as mud.
I was about as popular as a bacon buttie at a Bar Mitzvah
I wuz pissed as a newt.
You look like a busted couch.
Thick(stupid) as two bluddy short planks youse arn yiz!
He's as thick(stupid) as two short poodles.
Of a woman's chest: flat as piss on a plate.
Of a person with a large lower lip:He has a lip like a camel eating toast.
Yer won't need any ammers tho, cos yer mush(face) lewks like a bag of em.
They are as daft as Bleedin brushes.
You're as thick as pigshit and twice as nasty.
This went through like shit through a goose.
Mad as a bitten snake
E's gorra gob as big as the Mersey Tunnel: a case of walking noise; never shuts up.
Thick as wheels
As daft as a flemin brush
Ee's gorr'ears like gas taps.
As late as British Mail
Sick as a parrot
old as dirt
eyes like pee-holes in snow
got piles like seaweed
as much at home in a lascar rope(cheap, sinister lodging house) as a child or rich folk might have been in a nursery.
a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp
looks like he's been dragged through a hedge backwards
hung like a Dock Road Horse: a very well endowed man.
smokes like a Vauxhall Road chimley: needs to cut down
looked like a drowned channel pheasant: totally dishevelled.
gets off like a ferret up a drain pipe: leaves very suddenly.
whipped smartly back, like a ferret up a trouser leg: made a dazzlingly fast move.
like a Sumo wrestler dancing on eggshells: the overweight at footee
got the eyesight of a boghouse rat: doesn't miss much, damn it!
As thick as two short planks: denser than thou
sticks like shite to a blanket: not easily gotten rid of
carrying on like dogs' dinners: having a hell-raising time
dressed up like a dog's dinner: jacket and tie, if you don't mind!
tight as a duck's arse: a real penny-pincher
got a gob like an arab's flip flop: I am very thirsty
as happy as Harry
sounds like a pig in pain( a child's music lesson)
So my mate heads out fast, like shit off a shovel
Teaching these kids is like shovelling smoke with a billiard cue
As busy as Beck's Wife, to be
As black as Toby's arse
As common as muck
Hard as the hobs of hell
My jaw wobbled like a ferry's fender