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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk
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- p. 77
- metaphor: figure of speech where you say one thing is another, because they have many similarities
- life is a journey - all walks of life, at a crossroads, turn your life around, go with the flow, in a rut, the road less traveled, ...
- truth is light - enlighten, bright/brilliant, black market/black site/black ops (these happen in secret, out of the light of truth)
- simile: another type of comparison, using "like" or "as", usually because there is only one important similarity
- "Life is like a box of chocolates--you never know what you're going to get."
- 1 mule
- 2 sheet
- 3 fish
- 4 post
- 5 log
- 6 bat (alliteration: repetition of the same sound in multiple words)
- 7 gold
- 8 dream (more common: "works like a charm")
- 9 flash
- 10 horse (eats very little = "eats like a bird")
- (If you can speak up and he'll hear you, he is hard of hearing, not (completely) deaf.)
- mute = can't talk
- I've been working very hard. = I've been working like a dog.
- She's very busy = She's as busy as a bee. / as a beaver.
- dead as a doornail = "very dead"
- easy as pie = very easy
- happy as a clam = very happy
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- shrug
- bow
- nod (your head) "yes"
- shake your head "no"
- clap / applaud
- They gave a standing ovation.
- wave hello / goodbye
- acquaintances = people who you know, but who aren't really your friends
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