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

Snap

Snapped like a fiddle string.
—Anonymous

Snap like a pipe stem.
—Anonymous

Snap like the lash of a whip.
—Anonymous

Snapping like too high-stretched treble strings.
—John Donne

Snapping like a mad dog.
—George Eliot

Snapped up—like a steel gin.
—Maurice Hewlett

Snapped like the threads of a lyre.
—Adelaide A. Procter