Tag: Metaphors
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Parce que ses pics rappellent de gros seins
Booker (Arthur Hunnicutt): Judging a horse is like judging a woman. You can never by the head or the mane.
A jealous man is no more dangerous than a blind bull.
— Yeah, but, Cal, those two things don’t really go together
— We go together like cocaine and waffles
— No, like for instance, if I say peanut butter and …
— Lady!
— No: jelly
— Like to put jelly on a lady ?
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You no-account, two-faced dog
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Weekends, like life, are short
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Looks like a penis, only smaller
This witticism predates the film. An earlier instance maybe found in Richard Grayson’s short story, “The Finest Joe Colletti Story Ever Written (So Far)”, originally published in WRIT magazine #8, Innis College, Toronto, 1973.
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Like a testicle with teeth
(Un type méprisable)
This metaphor is usually used in a different context : “Some men claim that using a condom is like taking a shower with a raincoat on ” (Nass, Libby, Fisher, Sexual Choices: An Introduction to Human Sexuality, 1984, p. 366)
Comme certains animaux les femmes pratiquent l’hibernation. Pendant qautre mois, elles disparaissent, on ne les voit pas
Les jambes des femmes sont des compas qui arpentent le globe terrestre en tous sens, lui donnant son équilibre et son harmonie
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Too dark, it’s like bloody fingers
“She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.”
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A pig of a Jew like you
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“My youth was but a gloomy storm…”
Delphine Seyrig quotes Baudelaire :
“Ma jeunesse ne fut qu’un ténébreux orage,
Traversé çà et là par de brillants soleils”
(Les Fleurs du mal, “L’Ennemi”, 1857)
