It is not easy to make a simile go on all-fours.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

I saw nothing but waters wap [lap] and waves wanne [come].