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I felt a nameless dread. Well, there probably is a long German name for it, like geschpooklicheit or something, but I don't speak German. Anyway, it's a dread that nobody knows the name for, like those little square plastic gizmos that close your bread bags. I don't know the name for those either.
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Easily my favorite one. I laughed so hard i cried.
Here are some others:
He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work
The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.
It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.