Be as cool as cucumber!

Today’s English
June 4th, 2017

No comparison is good since everything in nature and everyone in the world is unique and cannot be compared with another one. Nevertheless comparison is common in daily life and therefore expressions related to comparisons will be useful to improve one’s day-to-day English speech.

1. If your eye sight is poor, you are as blind as a bat.

2. If you are a reliable person and won’t reveal the known secret, you are as dumb as oyster.

3. If you are extremely clean, you are as clean as a whistle (a suit).

4. If you are completely free in your life, you are as free as a bird.

5. If you are relaxed and never grow emotional in any situation, you are as cool as cucumber.

6. If you are robustly healthy and have a good stature, you are as fit as a fiddle.

7. If you are very proud of something, you are as proud as a peacock.

8. If a child is good, obedient and well-mannered, it is as good as gold.

9. If you are surprisingly kind and friendly to others, you are as nice as pie.

10. If something is very dull and uninteresting, it is as dull as ditchwater.

Examples:
1. I couldn't see anything from this place and I’m as blind as a bat.

2. Don’t be afraid. He is as dumb as oyster. He won’t leak out the secret to anyone.

3. What a surprise! You are as clean as a whistle today.

4. Before marriage, I was as free as a bird.

5. To solve this problem, first you have to be as cool as cucumber.

6. Even at the age of 80, my grandfather is as fit as a fiddle.

7. I’m as proud as a peacock whenever I think of studying here.

8. Your daughter is as good as gold.

9. Even to a stranger, my friend is as nice as pie.

10. This TV serial is as dull as ditch water and why do you watch it?

“You are not required to perform like them, you are required to perform like you.”
- Bangambiki Habyarimana