(347) 比喩

1. as thin and bony as sparrows
2. quiet  as a mouse
3. widened like saucers


1. Most of the time, he liked them as thin and bony as sparrows, but for three months he went out with a jolly fat girl he called Tons of Fun.
―the invisible city A New York Sketchbook, p118
例文：I don't like sparrows, they're too bony.

ニューヨーク・スケッチブック―A New York sketchbook 【講談社英語文庫】

• 作者: ピート・ハミル
• 出版社/メーカー: 講談社インターナショナル
• 発売日: 1990/08
• メディア: 文庫

2. I won't ask any questions. I'll be as quiet as a mouse.
―Thomas A. Edison Young Inventor
例文：It's as quiet as a mouse up here.

Thomas Edison: Young Inventor (Childhood of Famous Americans Series)

• 作者: Sue Guthridge
• 出版社/メーカー: Aladdin
• 発売日: 1986/10/31
• メディア: ペーパーバック

3. Her eyes widened like saucers. "You mean like incest?" she asked.
―Erick Segal, Love story, 1990 英光社
例文：eyes as big as saucers, ears like mice

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