What metaphors do you often use in conversations?

Like rain in the Sahara, I never use metaphors. They are like sweet treacle. They leave a bad taste in my mouth. The last time I used a metaphor I felt like loose dirt blowing in the wind. I was aimless. I would much rather speak plainly like a spoiled housecat demanding dinner.

People who litter their speech with metaphors are like guppies at the bait and tackle shop. They probably take forever to order coffee at Starbucks since their concoction is complex like sludge.

I like to keep it simple like my hair. I’m bald as a billiard ball.

I rarely use metaphors, but here are some:

I feel under the weather.
Things are going south.
On the government’s dime.
He missed the boat.
Final nail in the coffin.
Last straw.

My husband uses a lot of similes, I think I am using the term simile correctly? I think he shouldn’t use so many at work. He mixes them up both metaphors and similes (which is super cute sometimes) but also, I think sometimes he might not be communicating well. I think it is better to be direct and say what you mean. Do similes count also for this Q?

I say “the rain has been going on for days like a Ray Bradbury short story” at least a few times a year during the rainy season.

My husband uses “you are moving like molasses in the winter” quite a bit.

I think those are both similes. Feel free to correct me.

“Nur die Harten kommen in den Garten.”

It’s all going pear shaped.
Back to the drawing board.
Bite the bullet.
The elephant in the room.
A kick in the teeth.

If I think I am being overcharged for something I usually say,and your not even going to kiss me first, some people get it others don’t clue in.

I don’t use it, but I found it funny.
X-Men Rouge from the 90’s cartoon.
“I am as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.”

^^ That one makes me cringe every time I hear it. Poor kitty. And it’s waaay older than the 90s.

@SQUEEKY2 Hate that one and anything similar, especially when a man says it to me.

Sorry but I hate it when business thinks it’s ok to screw their customers, especially when the customer has no choice.

Who gives a rat’s ass?

“Off the boat” for immigrants. Though virtually all come over land or via air these days, I use my paternal grandmother’s term. When she was a kid, half the neighborhood had recently arrived in the USA off the boat.

My boss would say to customers who dislike the prices at his store that ,“I did not bend your arm to shop here”.

OJ was $8 a liter or a ¼ of a gallon in his store.

I would like for a jelly to find a good counter argument?