Question:i need to know what does this simile means...please help :))
Answers:
"You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it"
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
"like a chestnut burr" is the term, and in your poem the hedgehog ends up looking like a chestnut because he
curls up in a ball
Church is like a chestnut burr : the burr is one, but there are two nuts, and sometimes three, inside of it !
Mostly 19th century,
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