Similes and metaphors....!

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I was wrong. Like a Grown man crying at a Disney film. Just, plain, wrong.

or:
wrong, just plane wrong

 

[AphroditeMSC]

Silly

 

[SpaceShip]

20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

I laughed my head off - just like somebody laughing their head off!

 

[Joel007]

I heard a strange quote from a friend of mine today,
"She had a laugh like a freshly wounded mouse strapped to a concrete mixer."

 

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I laughed my head off - just like somebody laughing their head off!

Or:
I laughed my head off, not like somebody figuratively laughing his head off, but more like someone who's head really came off, like being decapitated with an axe or something.

 

[SpaceShip]

Or "ha ha crash"

 

[HardScienceFan]

I laugh like a man possessed

 

[Harpo]

 

[Fiberglass Cyborg]

"Take arms against a sea of troubles, and in so doing, end them!"

I remember studying a short story in GCSE English that was a prime example of the vomitously obvious overextended metaphor. It involved a flock of symbolic doves that kept taking off at thematically significant moments. IIRC I wrote a brutal parody of it for my assignment, and got a high mark.