Sentence: as ineffectual as so small a quantity of soap would be in so large a vessel of water, mug here denoting a washtub as slender in the middle as a cow in the waist, said of a very stout person as slick as a oont as smooth as a mole as slim as a barbers pole as softhearted as a rezzil weasel, said of a person who is absolutely cruel as sound as a trout as sour as a grig, referring to grig, the wild bullace, not to the proverbial merry grig as straight as a loach, an allusion to the swift direct motion of the loach as sure as Gods in Gloucestershire, an allusion to the large number of churches and religious houses the county used to possess as throng busy as a cobblers Monday, said in ridicule, because a cobbler is supposed to rest on Monday to work off the effects of a drinking bout at the weekend as tough as a withy as wakken as a witterick as lively as a weasel as warm as a bee as weak as a midsummer gosling as weak as a wet dishclout as welcome as flowers in May, said to a friend entering the house as welcome as snow in harvest, or as welcome as water in ones shoon, said of an undesired guest as whisht as a winnard, an allusion to the redwings which reach Cornwall in the late autumn, and are seen there in the winter in a very thin and miserably weak condition as windy as a wisket basket, said of a forgetful person as yellow as a gollan a cornmarigold.
Combination: snow in harvest (root: snow, modifier: harvest)
Property: undesired
Property type: emergent