[ noun ] a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') <noun.communication>
Simile \Sim"i*le\, n.; pl. {Similes}. [L., from similis. See {Similar}.] (Rhet.) A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.
A good swift simile, but something currish. --Shak.
We have to make our money in the season,' he said. But the simile should at least be preferable to Labour MP Austin Mitchell's likening of accountants to prostitutes marketing their wares - with one important difference.
Argentines often feel as if they live in the political simile of the physical world's anti-matter: an anti-country, with an anti-government.