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idiomlikesthe likes of me, him, her etclike/similar used in order to talk about people like you, or like someone you are talking about:The play was a bit modern for the likes of me.She'd never be attracted to the likes of Matthew - she goes for the macho-man type.Instead of trying to compete directly with the likes of Our Price and HMV, Ames decided to stock cheaper CDs and tapes. (redirected from likes)
like1. interj. an emphatic or meaningless word that, when said frequently, marks the speaker as speaking in a very casual or slangy mode. (see also like, you know. Used in writing only for effect.) This is, like, so silly! 2. interj. a particle meaning roughly saying. (Always with some form of be. Never used in formal writing.) And I’m like, “Well, you should have put your hat on!” See:- (as) (a)like as (two) peas in a pod
- (do something) like it's going out of style
- (just) like this/that
- (one) puts (one's) pants on one leg at a time
- (one's) (hand)writing is like chicken scratch
- (one's) face is like thunder
- (there's) no fool like an old fool
- a face like a bag of spanners
- a face like thunder
- a hand like a foot
- a mind like a sieve
- all over (someone) like a cheap suit
- all over someone like a cheap suit
- an open book, he/she is (like an)
- and stuff like that
- and stuff like that (there)
- and stuff like that there
- and the like
- and things (like that)
- anything like
- anything like that
- anything/nothing/something like that
- apples and oranges, like comparing
- as alike/like as peas in a pod
- as I was saying
- as like as not
- avoid (someone or something) like the plague
- avoid like the plague
- avoid like the plague, to
- avoid somebody/something like the plague
- avoid someone/something like the plague
- back of one's hand
- bad penny, always turns up (comes back) like a
- be (like) a bird in a gilded cage
- be (like) water off a duck's back
- be all like
- be as/like oil and water
- be built like a tank
- be done like a (dog's) dinner
- be down on (one) like a ton of bricks
- be dropping like flies
- be grinning like a Cheshire cat
- be in like Flynn
- be like a bear with a sore head
- be like a bull in a china shop
- be like a cat on a hot tin roof
- be like a cat on hot bricks
- be like a child in a sweetshop
- be like a deer caught in the headlights
- be like a dog with a bone
- be like a dog with two tails
- be like a fish out of water
- be like a kid in a candy store
- be like a red flag to a bull
- be like a red rag to a bull
- be like a spare prick at a wedding
- be like Fort Knox
- be like herding cats
- be like jelly
- be like looking for a needle in a haystack
- be like oil and water
- be like painting the Forth Bridge
- be like putty in someone's hands
- be like rearranging (the) deckchairs on the Titanic
- be like ships in the night
- be like ships that pass in the night
- be like taking candy from a baby
- be like talking to a brick wall
- be like trying to find a needle in a haystack
- be like two peas in a pod
- be like watching grass grow
- be like watching paint dry
- be like/as safe as Fort Knox
- be of like mind
- be off like a prom dress (in May)
- be out like a light
- be packed (in) like sardines
- be played like a fiddle
- be putty in (one's) hands
- be running around like a headless chicken
- be shaking like a leaf
- be squashed (in) like sardines
- be stuffed like a turkey
- be/come down on somebody like a ton of bricks
- be/feel like jelly
- be/go out like a light
- beef to (the) heel like a Mullingar heifer
- bellow like a (wounded) bull, to
- birds of a feather (flock together)
- bleed like a (stuck) pig
- bleed like a pig
- breath of fresh air, (like) a
- breed like rabbits
- built like a brick outhouse
- built like a tank
- bull in a china shop
- bull in a china shop (like a)
- Can I have a word with you?
- can of worms, it's a/like opening a
- candidate for a pair of wings
- carry coals to Newcastle
- case of
- cat on a hot tin roof, like a
- cat that swallowed the canary, (look) like the
- come across like
- come across like (someone or something)
- come down like a ton of bricks
- come down on (one) like a ton of bricks
- come down on someone like a ton of bricks
- come on like gangbusters
- come on strong
- come out smelling like a rose
- come up roses
- come up smelling like a rose
- come up smelling like roses, to
- crazy like a fox
- cry like a baby
- cry like a banshee
- curses, like chickens, come home to roost
- cut of his/her jib, I don't like the
- cut through (something) like a (hot) knife through butter
- die like a dog
- die like a dog, to
- die like flies
- die like Roland
- die/drop/fall like flies
- do something as if/like there's no tomorrow
- do something like it's going out of style
- done like (a) dinner
- done like a dinner
- done like a dog's dinner
- done like dinner
- done up like a dog's dinner
- Don't even look like
- don't even look like (something)
- drawn like a moth to a flame
- drawn to (something) like a moth to a flame
- dressed (up) like a dog's dinner
- dressed like a dog's dinner
- dressed up like a dog's dinner
- drink like a fish
- drink like a fish, to
- drop (someone or something) like a hot brick
- drop (someone or something) like a hot potato
- drop like a hot potato
- drop like a hot potato, to
- drop like flies
- drop like flies, to
- drop like ninepins
- drop someone or something like a hot potato
- drop someone/something like a hot potato
- drop something like a hot potato
- drowned rat, like a/wet as a
- duck soup, like
- Dutch uncle
- Dutch uncle, talk (to one) like a
- eat like a bird
- eat like a bird/horse, to
- eat like a horse
- eat like a pig
- eyes like saucers
- eyes like two burnt holes in a blanket
- fall like dominoes
- fall like ninepins
- feel (like) (one)self
- feel a million dollars
- feel like
- feel like a million
- feel like a million bucks
- feel like a million dollars
- feel like a new man/woman
- feel like a new person
- feel like death
- feel like death warmed over
- feel like death warmed up
- feel like doing
- feel like jelly
- feel like new
- feel like oneself
- feel like something/like doing something
- feel like two cents
- fight like a lion
- fight like cat and dog
- fight like hell
- fight like Kilkenny cats
- fish out of water, a
- fit (someone) like a glove
- fit like a glove
- fit like a glove, to
- flat out like a lizard drinking
- flourish like a green bay tree
- fold like a cheap suitcase
- for all the world
- for two cents
- fox guarding the henhouse
- get along
- get on like a house afire
- get on like a house on fire
- get played like a fiddle
- go (right) through (one) like a dose of salts
- go at like a boy killing snakes
- go down like a lead balloon
- go down like ninepins
- go down, drop, etc. like ninepins
- go like a bomb
- go like a dream
- go like a rocket
- go like clockwork
- go like hot cakes
- go like lightning
- go like the wind
- go out like a light
- go over
- go over like a lead balloon
- go through
- go through one
- go through someone like a dose of salts
- go through someone like a dose of the salts
- go, run, etc. like the wind
- go/run like clockwork
- Greeks bearing gifts, beware of/like
- grin like a Cheshire cat
- grow like Topsy
- grow to (do something)
- hang on like grim death
- hang on to (someone or something) like grim death
- hang on/hold on like grim death
- hate (someone or something) like sin
- hate like sin
- have (hand)writing like chicken scratch
- have a face like a wet weekend
- have a face like thunder
- have a hand like a foot
- have a hide like a rhinoceros
- have a hide/skin like a rhinoceros
- have a memory like a sieve
- have a memory like an elephant
- have a mind like a sieve
- have a mind like a steel trap
- have a mind/memory like a sieve
- have a skin like a rhinoceros
- have eyes like a hawk
- have eyes like saucers
- Hell has no fury like a (certain type of person) scorned
- hell has no fury like a woman scorned
- hell hath no fury like a (certain type of person) scorned
- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
- his, her, etc. face is like thunder
- hit (one) like a ton of bricks
- hold on to (someone or something) like grim death
- hot potato
- How bout them apples?
- How do you like school?
- how do you like that
- How do you like that?
- how do you like them apples
- how do you like them apples?
- How do you like this weather?
- How would you like it?
- howl like a banshee
- hung like a bull
- hung like a horse
- I don't want to sound like a busybody, but
- I felt like a penny waiting for change
- I like (someone's) cheek
- I like (someone's) nerve
- I like your nerve, cheek, etc.
- I would like you to meet
- I'd like a word with you
- I'd like a word with you. and Could I have a word with you?
- I'd like to have a word with you
- I'd like to speak to
- I'd like to speak to (someone)
- I'd like to speak to (someone), please
- I'd like you to meet
- I'd like you to meet (someone)
- if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
- if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it is a duck
- if you don't like it, lump it
- if you like
- I'm like you
- in clover
- in like Flynn
- in/like a flash
- It smells like someone/somebody died in (some place)!
- just like that
- kick like a mule
- know (someone or something) like a book
- know (something) like the back of (one's) hand
- know like a book
- know like a book, to
- know like the palm of hand
- know something like the back of your hand
- know what (one) likes
- know what you like
- laugh like a drain
- lead balloon, go over like a
- lie like a rug
- lie like a tombstone
- lie like a trooper
- life is like a box of chocolates
- like
- like (one's) life depends on it
- like (the) white on rice
- like (two) peas in a pod
- like a (hot) knife through butter
- like a bad dream
- like a bat out of hell
- like a beached whale
- like a bear with a sore head
- like a blind dog in a meat market
- like a blue-arsed fly
- like a bolt from the blue
- like a bolt out of the blue
- like a book
- like a broken record
- like a bull at a gate
- like a bull in a china shop
- like a bump on a log
- like a can of corn
- like a cat in a strange garret
- like a cat on a hot tin roof
- like a cat on hot bricks
- like a champ
- like a chicken with its head cut off
- like a chicken with its head cut off, (run about)
- like a chicken with the pip
- like a child in a sweet shop
- like a child in a sweetshop
- like a clown's pocket
- like a cow peeing on a flat rock
- like a deer in (the) headlights
- like a demon
- like a dog with two tails
- like a dog's breakfast
- like a dog's dinner
- like a dose of salts
- like a dream
- like a drowned rat
- like a drunken sailor
- like a duck to water
- like a dying duck in a thunderstorm
- like a fish out of water
- like a flash
- like a greased pig
- like a headless chicken
- like a hen with one chick
- like a hot knife through butter
- like a house
- like a house afire
- like a house afire/on fire
- like a house on fire
- like a kid in a candy store
- like a kid in a candy store/shop
- like a kid with a new toy
- like a knife through butter
- like a lamb
- like a lamb being led to (the) slaughter
- like a lamb to (the) slaughter
- like a lamb to the slaughter
- like a leech
- like a lost soul
- like a man/woman possessed
- like a million
- like a million bucks
- like a million dollars
- like a monkey on a stick
- like a moth to a flame
- like a moth to the flame
- like a person possessed
- like a pig being led to (the) slaughter
- like a pig in clover
- like a pig to (the) slaughter
- like a rabbit (caught) in (the) headlights
- like a rabbit caught in the headlights
- like a rag doll
- like a rat up a drainpipe
- like a ripe plum
- like a scalded cat
- like a shag on a rock
- like a shot
- like a spare prick at a wedding
- like a streak
- like a thief in the night
- like a three-ring circus
- like a ton of bricks
- like a ton of bricks, (come down)
- like a well-oiled machine
- like a whipped dog
- like an owl in an ivy bush
- like anything
- like as not
- like as two peas in a pod
- like attracts like
- like back
- like billyo
- like billy-o
- like billy-o(h)
- like blazes
- like blue blazes
- Like breeds like
- like chalk and cheese
- like cheese at four pence
- like clockwork
- like crazy
- like crazy/mad
- like death warmed over
- like death warmed over/up, to feel/look
- like death warmed up
- like enough
- like falling off (of) a log
- like father like son
- like father, like son
- like father/mother, like son/daughter
- like fighting snakes
- like flies to manure
- like for like
- like fun
- like fury
- like gangbusters
- like gangbusters, come on/going
- like getting blood from a stone
- like getting blood from a turnip
- like getting blood out of a stone
- like getting blood out of a turnip
- like getting blood out of/from a stone
- like gold dust
- like Grant took Richmond
- like greased lightning
- like grim death
- like hell
- like hell and high lightning
- Like hell!
- like herding cats
- like herding frogs
- like hot cakes, go
- like I care
- like I said
- like it is going out of fashion or style
- like it or lump it
- Like it or lump it!
- like it or not
- like it was going out of style
- Like it’s such a big deal
- like it's going out of fashion
- like it's such a big deal
- Like it's such a big deal!
- like lambs to the slaughter
- like lightning
- like looking for a needle in a haystack
- like looking for/trying to find a needle in a haystack
- like mad
- like money in the bank
- Like mother, like daughter
- like mushrooms
- like nailing Jell-O to a cross
- like nailing Jell-O to a tree
- like nailing Jell-O to the wall
- like nailing jelly to the wall
- like night and day
- like nobody’s business
- like nobody's business
- like nothing on earth
- like one of the family
- like peas in a pod
- like piffy on a rock bun
- like piffy on a rock cake
- like pigs in clover
- like pigs to the slaughter
- like pulling teeth
- like rats abandoning a sinking ship
- like rats deserting a sinking ship
- like rats from a sinking ship
- like rats leaving a sinking ship
- like rolling off (of) a log
- like sheep
- like shelling peas
- like shooting fish in a barrel
- like sin
- like sixty
- like someone possessed
- like something the cat brought in
- like something the cat brought/dragged in
- like something the cat dragged in
- like stealing acorns from a blind pig
- like stink
- like stink on a monkey/skunk/pig/etc.
- like taking candy from a baby
- like taking coals to Newcastle
- like talking to a wall
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