Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Close
Close as clapboards on a house.
—Anonymous
Close as one second is to another.
—Anonymous
Close as heat to fire.
—Anonymous
Close as lovers sitting upon the sofa.
—Anonymous
Close as Noah in the ark.
—Anonymous
Close-mouthed as a clam.
—Anonymous
Close as a cockle.
—Beaumont and Fletcher
Close as wax.
—Beaumont and Fletcher
Close as brother leans to brother
When they press beneath the eyes
Of some father praying blessings
From the gifts of paradise.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Fitting as close as fits the dented spine
Its flexible ivory outside-flesh.
—Robert Browning
Close as an oyster.
—Robert Burton
Close as the finger nail and the quick.
—Hugh Clifford
Close as a new cut yew-hedge.
—George Colman, the Elder
Close as your jacket.
—George Colman, the Younger
Close as a pill-box.
—George Colman, the Younger
Close as a nut.
—George Eliot
Close as hand and glove.
—Foundling Hospital for Wit, 1743
Close as night.
—Thomas Heywood
Close as thorn is to the rose.
—Robert Lloyd
I will sticke as close to thee, as the soale doth to the shoe.
—John Lyly
Hide closer than Rachel did her father’s images.
—James Puckle
Close as oak and ivy stand.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Close as the young wheat.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Stick closer than a bump on your head.
—Austin Strong
Close as a jail.
—Thomas Tusser
Close as a lover in his hour of bliss.
—N. P. Willis
Close as a flea in a blanket.
—Yea and Nay Almanack, 1680