Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

English Proverb

Bad as the fighting bull of Stamford.

Bad as two kings of Brentford.

Bald as a coot.

Bare as a bird’s tail.

Bare as the birch at Yule.

Always behind, like a donkey’s tail.

Looking as big as bull-beef.

Dumb as a mouse.

Fit as a fritter for a friar’s mouth.

Glad as a fowl of a fair day.

As hasty as Hopkins, that came to jail over night and was hanged the next morning.

As innocent as a devil of two years old.

Kindness, like grain, increases by sowing.

As merry as a grig.

Proud as a lord’s bastard.