65 Metaphors for coats

A coat of arms, perhaps you know, is a family crest or medal, having on it a figure or device which a high-born family adopts as its particular sign or emblem of nobility.

" "Oh, dinna speir, dinna speir mistress," exclaimed the chiel a' in a curfuffle, "ainly for the loe of heav'n, hide me frae the red coats whilk are comin' beliveO God, they are here," he cried, as I entered the shealing, and uttering a piercing skirl, he sprung till the wa', and thrawing aff his cloak, drew his broad claymore, whilk glittered fearsome by the low o' the ingle.

You might just as well say that, because a fur coat in Canada at certain times of the year is a truly comfortable garment, therefore a fur coat in the Deccan is just the very garment that you would be delighted to wear.

"The coat is a trifle tight just herethe trousers" King laughed.

That Browning, with his carefully brushed hat, smart coat, and fine society manners was a poet, always seemed to me far more incomprehensible than his poetry, which I think most people would have taken straightforwardly and read with a fair amount of ease, if certain enthusiasts had not founded societies for making his crooked places plain, and (to me) his plain places very crooked.

Over against the fire-place was seated a man of a grave aspect, who wore a pretty large wig, which had once been white, but was now of a brownish yellow; his coat was a modest coloured drab; and two jack-boots concealed in part the well-mended knees of an old pair of buckskin breeches.

COAT, LENGTH AND TEXTUREShould be a good length, the longer the better, of a silky texture, not in any way woolly, and should be straight.

Most of the ladies were in evening costume, and dress coats and dancing pumps were the rule among the men.

These here red-coats are plumb ruinin' trade.

" But fur-lined coats, with fine fur collars, are quite another affair.

The wind blew cold from the bay, having a clear sweep up through the Golden Gate, but as soon as we began to make the ascent our coats became a burden.

Two or three blows with the cutlass, at the small end of the nut, cut off not only the pith-coat, but the point of the shell; and disclosethe nut being held carefully upright meanwhilea cavity full of perfectly clear water, slightly sweet, and so cold (the pith-coat being a good non-conductor of heat) that you are advised, for fear of cholera, to flavour it with a little brandy.

[Footnote 1: This coat was a present from Stuart.]

The sclerotic coat is the outside layer and enclosing membrane of the eyeball.

His talk is how many mourners he furnished with gowns at his father's funeral, how many messes, how rich his coat is, and how ancient, how great his alliance; what challenges he hath made and answered; what exploits he did at Calais or Newport; and when he hath commended others' buildings, furnitures, suits, compares them with his own.

His talk is how many mourners he furnished with gowns at his father's funeral, how many messes, how rich his coat is, and how ancient, how great his alliance; what challenges he hath made and answered; what exploits he did at Calais or Newport; and when he hath commended others' buildings, furnitures, suits, compares them with his own.

she wist: Her coats were kiltit, and did sweetly shaw Her straight bare legs, that whiter were than snaw.

He was leaning out of the window at the rear of the clubhousethe window of that small room where your sister's coat was foundand he saw, caught in the vines beneath, a" "Why don't you speak out?

The outer coat is the serous membrane which lines the abdomen,the peritoneum (note, p. 135).

And one day, as he was passing through a mean street, he heard a voice of lamentation, and perceived a man whose coat and shirt were rent and dirty; but not so his pantaloons, for he had none.

The scarlet coat was a center of barrel hoops, bushes, staves, and wildly jerking arms and legs.

Two or three blows with the cutlass, at the small end of the nut, cut off not only the pith-coat, but the point of the shell; and disclosethe nut being held carefully upright meanwhilea cavity full of perfectly clear water, slightly sweet, and so cold (the pith-coat being a good non-conductor of heat) that you are advised, for fear of cholera, to flavour it with a little brandy.

The fur-lined coat is a genteel thing; but you have to be "in a concatenation according-ly."

A fur coat is not an article of clothing: it is a new way of life.

There, just beyond your right foot, Red Coat, is a little depression, the place in the earth, from which he tore it.

65 Metaphors for  coats