Brewer's: Comparisons are Odorous

So says Dogberry. (Much Ado About Nothing, iii. 5.)

We own your verses are melodious, But then comparisons are odious.

Swift, Answer to Sheridan's “Simile.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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