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like idiom
In addition to the idioms beginning with like, also see and the like; avoid like the plague; come up (smelling like) roses; crazy like a fox; drink like a fish; drop like flies; Dutch uncle, talk to like a; eat like a bird; feel like; (like a) fish out of water; fit like a glove; fly on the wall, would like to be a; get on (like a house afire); go out (like a light); go over (like a lead balloon); grin like a Cheshire cat; (drop like a) hot potato; just like that; know like a book; live like a king; look like a million dollars; look like death; look like something the cat dragged in; look like the cat that ate the canary; make out like a bandit; manna from heaven, like; mind like a steel trap; need like a hole in the head; no fool like an old fool; not anything like; no time like the present; out like a light; packed in like sardines; sleep like a log; something like; spread like wildfire; stick out (like a sore thumb); swear like a trooper; take to (like a duck to water); tell it like it is; treat like dirt; turn up like a bad penny; wail like a banshee; watch like a hawk; work like a beaver; work like a charm.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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