metaphors and similes

Flirting with an expressionless woman is like sipping unseasoned soup.

Sleep is the greatest thief. It steals half of our lives.

She's a fairy who scatters rumors wherever she goes.

She dotes on that doll as if it were her real little sister.

She dotes on that boy as if he were her own real son.

It's just like rats fleeing a sinking ship.

That person has strength like a monster.

He starts to look like a cunning, fox-like prime minister who exploits his power to the fullest for his own self-preservation.

After dark clouds have gathered, a clear break comes.

The seeds of life have been sown.

A sleeping child is like an angel.

She had a look on her face as if she had seen a ghost.

She speaks English just like a native.

She has a pale face as if she were sick.

She looks as beautiful as an actress.

Her tone of voice was as if she were my mother.

She talks about Paris as if she's been there many times.

She talks like she knows everything.

She has the regal features of a princess.

She talks as if she had been to France.

She talks like she knows everything about the world.

I'm very fond of this expression as a figurative expression in English that doesn't exist in Japanese.

She was as thin as a rail.

She looked as if she had been ill.

She had the face of someone who'd been sick for a long time.

She talks just like a teacher.

She talks about that as if she knows everything there is to know.