2018年11月4日 · ‘Even sinkholes similar to the one last summer have been around since the 18th Century.’ ‘After all a bully is somewhat similar to a stalker, they follow you, taunt you, frighten you.’ ‘This wide sweeping course is one of the newest on the circuit, and is …

Following from Elian's answer, the use of Google Books trend viewer was excellent, but left me perplexed - "in similar vein" sounded like the more common option to me. It turns out, the preposition at the end of the phrase is important. If you do the same search without "to" or "as", then you get, from most common to least common: "In a similar ...

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2012年7月17日 · I'm looking for an analogy for my repeated attempts to revive interest in a project. The phrase beating a dead horse almost fits the bill, but a dead horse refers to a subject that is no longer re...

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2011年4月24日 · I ran into a somewhat similar situation recently where I was tempted to use "both" in reference to three items, as in: I did see a notable increase in my approach frequency when placed into a rare situation in my city where there was both high traffic overall, a high fraction of the target demographic, and conditions favourable to approaching.

2011年4月4日 · In @JSBangs's answer, 'such as' introduces an example. In @Robusto's comment, 'like' means Monet and other painters similar to him. There is a subtle difference as when we use 'such as' the way JSBangs has, the other examples might not share similarities with the selected one. –

2015年9月21日 · The 80-20 or Pareto Rule capture some aspects of this. When used in the context of a project, it indicates that 80% of the project takes 20% of the work, while the hardest 20% of the project takes 80% of the work.

Wayne Gretzky appears to be the earliest attributed source of this particular expression, although two older sports-related expression say much the same thing: "You can't score if you don't shoot" and "You can't hit the ball if you don't swing."

2016年8月30日 · Let me start with the meaning of "to make an omelette you have to crack a few eggs".The closest I found in Wiktionary is "you've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette".