Leaves are to plants what lungs are to animals.

Books are to the mind what food is to the body.

Slide down the hill while distributing your weight equally on both skis.

Employing him would amount to employing nobody.

His great oration was like pearls before swine.

His command of English is on a par with mine.

His command of English is on a par with mine.

His request was equivalent to an order.

Somebody could exchange a sheep or a horse, for example, for anything in the marketplace that they considered to be of equal value.

If other conditions are equal, the temperature must be the most influential element in this experiment.

No two words are identical in meaning.

I am not equal to him in mathematics.

Water is to fish what air is to man.

It has often been said that facts are to the scientist what words are to the poet.

The birth rate and death rate were nearly equal.

Facts are to the scientist what words are to the poet.

There must be equal pay for equal work, and where this is not the case, the abuse must be resisted at all costs.

Your remark amounts almost to insult.

Your remark amounts almost to insult.

Well begun is half done.