17 Metaphors for fitted

Fits of a convulsive character are frequent concomitants of distemper.

Nascitur non fit, is the law in all such matters.

A sport fit for idle gentlewomen, soldiers in garrison, and courtiers that have nought but love matters to busy themselves about, but not altogether so convenient for such as are students.

"Get 'em big enough and there won't be any fussin' about the fit," the old man explained his theory: and indeed the fit of those shoes on Johnnie's feet was not a thing to fuss overit was past considering.

" Emily, while reading this epistle, felt a confusion but little inferior to that which would have oppressed her had Denbigh himself been at her feet, soliciting that love Chatterton thought him so worthy of possessing; and when they met, she could hardly look in the face a man who, it would seem, had been so openly selected by another, as the fittest to be her partner for life.

A fit of hysterics was the natural consequence.

The British temperament is well fitted to undergo such a test, and particularly well fitted are these sturdy seamen of mature years.

A gangang[90] fit is aye gettin (gin it were but a thorn), or, as it sometimes runs, gin it were but a broken tae, i.e. toe.

So every fit of anger is something commonevery unrestrained display of joy, or of hate, or fearin short, every form of emotion; in other words, every movement of the will, if it's so strong as decidedly to outweigh the intellectual element in consciousness, and to make the man appear as a being that wills rather than knows.

In a society of hypocrites, would the fittest for survival be the most skilful deceiver?

" This remark he prudently kept to himself, or a fit of hysterics would probably have been the result.

On the contrary, the fittest, the bravest, and the biggest are the most likely to be killed.

There were none which exactly fitted him; but a good fit is a luxury for richer folks than Tony, and he was not troubled about it.

The only gauze fit to wear is English, at a crown a yard; so that really a guinea goes no further than a copper with us.

Then fittest are these ragged rimes for mee, 545 To tell my sorrowes that exceeding bee.

They've been forty days on the trail, and they're as fit as fiddles.

It is some comfort to know that six of the animals at least are in splendid conditionVictor, Snippets, Christopher, Nobby, Bones are as fit as ponies could well be and are naturally strong, well-shaped beasts, whilst little Michael, though not so shapely, is as strong as he will ever be.

17 Metaphors for  fitted