Analogy

2. Our experts will tell you a million reasons why it can’t or shouldn’t be done here. They have turned excuse-making into an art form.
3. Learning math is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
4. As dumb as a sack of hammers.
5. When it comes to improving education, the evidence is clear: focus on pedagogy, interdisciplinary learning, flipped classrooms and cultivating the metacognitive.
9. The sky was a clear azure, dotted with fluffy, white clouds.
10. Back in my day I had to walk three miles to the watering hole just to brush my teeth.
11. No doubt he will be able to apply his twisted logic to it.
12. Not all of us can write Max Walker’s How to Hypnotise Chooks, you know – for many years the biggest-selling title in Australian literary history.

1. That woman is a dove at heart
6. It has been well established here and overseas that if teenagers think they can see a doctor in confidence, they are more likely to do so, more likely to go back for repeat visits, and more likely to disclose sensitive information.
7. The grass is always greener on the other side.
8. That party was the bomb.