Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Out

In and out like a needle through cloth.
—Anonymous

Come out like beetles when the lights are out.
—J. M. Barrie

Out like a burnt taper’s flame.
—Richard Henry Dana (1815–1882)

Go out, like an untended lamp.
—Friedrich von Schiller