Physique Metaphors, Analogies and Similes

His skull is only to be found in anthropology textbooks; he's skipped several stages of evolution.

My heart-rate wouldn't slow; it pounded like a heavy pair of boxing gloves.

Fingernails too long for the Bride of Dracula.

Imagine a huge cactus in Arizona desert: that's the shape of Caleb fingers.

The back of his hand was inscribed with a calligraphy of blue veins.

Tracey's hips filled her jeans like two generous scoops of chocolate ice cream.

A dress so tight on the hips she had the shape of a dustpan.

He had a chip on each shoulder, like epaulettes.

Women should nip in at the equator.

The old man pointed the way with an ET-like finger.

His prominent Adam's apple bobbed up and down like a fleshy elevator.

His heart throbbed like an animal about to hatch.

As grubby as a gravedigger's fingernails.

The load of Syed's waist-line forced his short legs apart either side of the chair, like the splayed legs of a frog.

After eating Raj's home-made authentic curry, my colon worked like the log flume at Alton Towers.

The definition of his forearms looked like the Mississippi river system.

The old lady's fingers were the roots of a mangrove tree at low tide.

Our Italian colleague couldn't stop waving his hands about like war-planes in mid-dogfight.

Legs set like the jointed front strut of a moon vehicle.

Success can weaken anyone if it goes on too long uninterrupted; the muscles go weak like an astronaut's in space.

So full of surgery collagen she looked like an orang-utan.

Their arms pumping like pistons.

On his arrival Julia felt the soft hooves of her own heartbeat.

As naked as the tails of rats.

When Veronica doesn't wear a bra it is like two bulldogs fighting in a sack.

His biceps were pumped to the same pressure as the tyres of a ten-ton truck.

Her swollen ankles and thin thighs gave the impression her legs were on upside down.

Sunburned, my shoulders feel as though they have been scourged with whips dipped in vinegar.