—I want an appropriate simile.
" "She is as obstinate as—" Thorpe never finished the simile, for it could hardly have been a proper one.
Chicken Interesting, the earliest recorded use of chicken in English refers to the 'young of the domestic fowl' in a simile.
Perhaps a different simile would have been wiser.
In other words, to return to my simile, the stone must be rolled away.
