英语习惯用语1

a laugh in the sea of sadness

The noise is music to his ears

He swam in the sea of diamonds

His belt was a snake curling around his waist

Love is a growing garland

Your friendship is the picture to my frame

Once your heart's been broken it grows back bigger

His hair is a white snowflake and his hair is a messy haystack

He is all heartbroken

The pigeons fountained into the air

Her hair was bone white

He tried to help but his legs were wax

It's raining cats and dogs

Words are false Idols

Ideas are wings

The sea is a hungry lion

She is a dog when she is hungry

A light in a sea of darkness

Strength and dignity is what she is made of

He is the sun of my sky

Light of their life

Life is a mere dream, a fleeting shadow on a cloudy day

Drowning in the sea

Information travels faster in this modern age as our days start crawling away

Reality is an enemy

Spiritual seeking is treasure hunting

Life's journey is a bicycle ride down the hill

Ideas are water

Thoughts are a storm, unexpected

A light in a sea of darkness.

Each episode narrated in the book is a slice-of-life snapshot of the protagonist.

Life is a mere dream, a fleeting shadow on a cloudy day.

Life has a tendency to come back and bite you.

He is my East and my West, my compass.

Love is a nutrient

Love is a journey

Love is a unity of parts

Love is a bond

Love is a fluid in a container

Love is fire

Love is an economic exchange

Love is a natural force

Love is a physical force

Love is a camera, full of memories

Love is an opponent

Love is a captive animal

Love is war

Love is a social superior

Love is rapture/a high

Love is a fine wine

Love is a garden

Love is a battlefield

Love is the air

Love is an experiment

Love is like an adventure

Love is a fragile flower opening to the warmth of spring

Love is a lemon - either bitter or sweet

The

toddlers

looked

at

each

other

as

if

they

had

just

been

told

their

mutual

funds

had

taken

a

complete nosedive.

She was a couch potato in the gravy boat of life, flopping dejectedly on the sofa.

It will take a big tractor to plow the fertile fields of his mind.

Suddenly, she was pinned by the spotlight, a struggling fish caught in a spider's web

All at once he was alone in this noisy hive with no place to roost.

The beautiful child was the center of attention, with his golden curls and tuna fish complexion.

There is no difference between a forced bachelor and an involuntarily herbivorous lion.

Do you have to ape Peter Pan in every aspect of your life?

A colony of growing on room temperature Canadian beef could not match their affection for

each other.

Standing at the corner cubicle, suddenly the two of them heard a growing sound of barely hushed

giggles. At the root of it was the little girl who called them the twin towers of the office.

Her face was a perfect oval with two sides of a circle gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

Underpants in a dryer and thoughts in his head displayed the same degree of making and breaking

alliances.

The revelation of infidelity in a 30 years marriage and surcharge at a formerly surcharge free A

TM

can be equally shocking.

Even in his last years, Granddad had a steel trap mind, only one that had been left out so long, it

had rusted shut.

The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.

Her eyes were limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser.

Between the lower east side tenements, the sky is a snotty handkerchief. ~ The Butt of Winter,

Marge Piercy

A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind. ~ The Comedy of Errors, William

Shakespeare

The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner. ~ Rosa, Cynthia Ozick

But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill. ~ The Lonely Hunter, William Sharp

Love

is

an

alchemist

that

can

transmute

poison

into

food

-

and

a

spaniel

that

prefers

even

punishment from one hand to caresses from another. ~ Lacon, Charles Caleb Colton

The greater part of the untested men appeared quiet and absorbed. They were going to look at war,

the red animal - the blood-swollen god. ~ The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane

Men's words are bullets, that their enemies take up and make use of against them. ~ Maxims of

State, George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Language is a road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are

going. ~ Rita Mae Brown

Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be

What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature;

It is too full o' the milk of human kindness

To catch the nearest way. ~ Macbeth: Act I, Scene V

, William Shakespeare

Memory

is

a

crazy

woman

that

hoards

colored

rags

and

throws

away

food.

~

Keystones

of

Thought, Austin O'Malley

Love is the wild card of existence. ~ In Her Day, Rita Mae Brown

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. ~ Face Toward the Spring, Faith Baldwin