![]() ![]() Collapse like a punctured blister -Mike Sommer.Collapse … like empty garments -Joyce Cary Collapse like sandcastles against the ocean tide -Anon.Collapse like a tent when the pole is kicked out from under it -Loren D.Collapse like a snowman in the sun -Anon.Most commonly overheard in everyday conversation is “Collapse like an empty paper bag.” Synge) “Dropped, like a flour sack falling from a loft” (Gerald Kersh). Perelman) “Went down … like an empty sack” (John M. The sack of meal as a comparison linked to falling, collapsing or toppling has seeded so much use and extension that one can only list some of its in-print appearances: “Went over like a sack of meal” (Frank O’Connor) “Fall heavily, like a sack of meal” (S. (One day would) collapse like a peony -Jilly Cooper.(His body) collapsed vertically like a punctured concertina -Frank RossĪn older, simpler variation by Irving Cobb: “Fold up like a concertina.”.Collapsed upon the sea as if his body had telescoped into itself, like a picnic beaker -Joyce Cary.Collapsed to the floor like a tent that has had all the guy ropes and poles removed at the same time -Jimmy Sangster.Collapsed like a wounded soldier in the mud -Z.(Half a dozen career daydreams) collapsed like a telescope -Thomas McGuane.Collapsed like a rotten tree -Erich Maria Remarque.Collapsed like an elephant pierced by a bullet in some vital spot -Kingsley Amis.In a short story entited Emotion Recollected in Tranquility, the author tied collapsed packing carton comparison to the collapse of part of one’s life. (Periods in one’s life that once seem important until you look back on them) collapsed as flat as packing cartons -Jonathan Penner.Caving in like a mud dam -Kurt Rheinheimer.Caved in like a sinkhole -Jonathan Valin.
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