The phrase "a friend like a" is not complete and lacks clarity in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are comparing a friend to something else, but it needs to be followed by a specific comparison to make sense.
Example: "I always thought of her as a friend like a sister to me."
Alternatives: "a friend as" or "a friend similar to".
It lays a groundwork for songs like "Dug Him in the Dirt" and "Life&Death She&I," and even "Just This," which half-shrugs at the passing of a friend, "like a lamb led".
More like a friend, like a father, like a brother.
For example, in 1929, Sarah Bloom, a tragic drunk straight from the early talkies, speaks to a friend like a woman in late-century therapy: "If Seymour was to leave me, where would all my anger go?" At David and Miriam's wedding in 1957, David stands and toasts his bride: "To my beautiful wife" and adds the great catch phrase from "Jerry Maguire" of the 1990's: "The woman who completes me".
When survey respondents were asked what they would do if they saw a friend like a product on social media, almost a third (29 percent) said they would check the product out, five percent said they would like the product themselves and a click-happy two percent reckoned they'd buy the product right away.
However, discourage wallowing -- if there's one thing we Brits know, it's the value of a stiff upper lip! Help him move on by planning something special with him and a friend, like a trip to the movies or a museum.
After seeing a friend "like" a product on social media, 29% of U.S. Internet users check out the product, 14% visit the product's website, 11% visit the product's social media page and 5% "like" the product, according to research from Adobe Systems.
That is one reason Facebook started running ads in the newsfeed, like sponsored stories, which are notices that a friend likes a certain brand.
This includes, for example, if a friend likes a movie on IMDB.
First showing up in March, these ads are marked "Sponsored, and could be about a friend Liking a company's Page, a game your friend started playing, or a post by a Page you already Like.
Sponsored Stories are different because they show content that could appear in the news feed organically such as a friend Liking a brand's Page, checking into a Place, or using an app.
Although Russell's devotion to a life of habit gave him the reputation of a repetitious windbag, O'Connor found him a friend, like an old fur coat.
