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

Bare

Bare as a Scotchman’s knee.
—Anonymous

Bare as a stone.
—Anonymous

Bare as January.
—Robert Armin

Bare as the back of my hand.
—Honoré de Balzac

Bare as a naked bairn.
—Robert Buchanan

Bare as winter.
—Robert Burns

Bare as beggary.
—Richard Cumberland

As bare …
As the willow of leaves
When the bough-breaking wind
The warm day endeth.
—The Elder Edda

Bare as an Alpine precipice.
—Charles Kingsley

Bare as a pig in a sty.
—Francis Mahony

Bare as lies the mirrored moon in silver sleeping seas.
—Gerald Massey

Bare as hop-stakes in November’s mists.
—George Meredith

Bare as my nail.
—Thomas Nash

Bare as a bird’s tail.
—English Proverb

Bare as the birch at Yule.
—English Proverb

Bare, like a carcass picked by crows.
—Jonathan Swift

Bare as a beggar.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Bare as naked daylight.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Bare as shame.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

As bare as a hornet’s cell.
—Henry Van Dyke

Bare as an ape.
—Voltaire

Bare as a goose-egg.
—Artemus Ward

Bare as a school-boy’s diary.
—H. G. Wells

As bare
As winter trees.
—William Wordsworth

As bare as Egypt when the locusts got through with it.
—Rida Johnson Young