55 Metaphors for shop

" "The carpenter shop is a little shanty back of the hotel.

Barker's old book-shop was at No. 20 Great Russell Street, over which the Lambs went to live in 1817.

The sweat-shop is the modern phrase for a house, frequently a dwelling, tenement, or home, not a factory, and not under the ownership or control of the person giving out the employment.

The name did its owner considerable wrong, for its suggestion of puritanical sanctimoniousness was a flat contradiction of the jovial and ruddy personality, the huge red-whiskered laugher, for whom it stood, and of whom the shop, with its healthy smell of cheese and its air of exuberant prosperity, was a much more truthful expression.

In that town a cobbler's shop is a club.

Every shop or stall we passedand there were a good manyhad an inmate more or less importunate, but as what they had to say was very similar, it can be all embodied in the following "CRY OF THE LOURDES SHOPKEEPERS.

On shop after shop are signs reading: "The proprietor and staff are with the colors," or "The personnel of this establishment is mobilized," or "Monsieurinforms his clients that he is with his regiment.

The flower-shops were the only objects of particular attraction for me.

That statue shop [of Chantrey's] was his bane!

Somewhere about the beginning of last century appeared at the western corner of Market Street, Sligo, where the butcher's shop now is, not a palace, as in Keats's Lamia, but an apothecary's shop, ruled over by a certain unaccountable Dr. Opendon.

He's morereceptivethan most of the natives, and it seems that his shop is a gathering placea centre.

Applying his eye to the keyhole, he observed the following condition of things: The shop was a milliner's, beyond all question.

The shop is the apprentice-place of work, before one takes up individual responsibilities.

His shop is the right-hand corner of the front room; the rest is bedroom and sitting-room; behind are the bedroom and kitchen.

The biggest department shop there is a German enterprise.

One circumstance seemed to him especially favourable: the shop was also a post-office, and no one could fail to see (it was put most impressively by the predecessor who sold him the business)

His shop, situated in the Place du Carrousel, was a fairy spot where one could find everything that one might wish.

That shop had been a thorn in his spirit in the days of his worldly success, but again and again this morning he had been remembering it as a very haven of comfort and peace.

Other shops were, indeed, level with the street; but you had to be careful, because the threshold was not flush with the pavement, but rose a couple of inches and then fell again, a very trap to the toe of the unwary.

If you will know more of his acts, the broker's shop is the witness of his valour, where lies wounded, dead rent, and out of fashion, many a spruce suit, overthrown by his fantasticness.

The shops were closedtrade at a standthe streets desertedhouses tenantlessthe oft busy creek had scarcely a boat moving on its surfacethe mosques were filled with the dismayed Moslems, whom poverty or self-interest had kept in the townthe Christian churches held the few Armenians and Chaldeans whom fear had driven to pray with sincerity.

The thoroughfares are mostly unpaved, and the shops which line them are continuous, some green, some blue, some red, but all bustling with business.

For him a shop was an impregnable fort garrisoned by ogres.

Achille's shop wasn't a café or an estaminet or a buvette or anny o' thim places.

Its shops are second-hand, and not a few of its denizens are down on police records as sleight-of-hand.

55 Metaphors for  shop