A simile (for those of you asleep in high school English) is description by comparison - for example "as cheap as chips" or "as busy as a bee".
Australians have a unique form of simile, where the item being compared to is left off. Bananas can be "as cheap as", or a joke can be "lame as". This can be more evocative, as the comparison is left up to the imagination of the listener.
We were wondering if English teachers have trouble teaching the concept of a simile: "But teacher, why say "hot as hell" when you can just say "hot as"?" - we had the opportunity to ask an English teacher, and she seemed quite exasperated at the concept - "That is NOT a simile!"
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