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"In this case, you should feel free to invent your own similes, as long as the comparisons are valid ones. For example, English speakers say "as white as a sheet" because, traditionally anyway, sheets were usually white. A learner might prefer "as white as snow", or "as white as cotton wool", and these are good "invented similes" because the image in people's minds of snow and cotton wool is of whiteness. "