It was an outing that promised many explosive, champagne-popping romantic happy endings and ended with the amorous equivalent of a stale mince pie: sweet enough but a bad idea.
They are the equivalent of a perfectly calibrated martini rather than sweet cocktails.
Paolo Sorrentino has returned to Cannes with a gorgeous movie, the film equivalent of a magnificent banquet composed of 78 sweet courses.
This was the video gaming equivalent of a drug dealer offering you that first sweet hit for free, and so far seven million people have signed up for a habit they just can't quit.
It's sickly sweet again, a gaming equivalent of a French Fancy, but underneath, the interface allows for subtle puzzles and delicate experimentation.
Another option entirely unlikely, but desirable is that they're hiding out in some kind of swan hovel, the avian equivalent of a mafia backroom, sharpening their beaks, chiseling their talons, and plotting their sweet, sweet swan revenge on this asshole.
The entertainment equivalent of sweet and sour pork, she works on immediate satiation, but an hour after the show I can't recall a word she said.
The word kan, for example, is the equivalent of "sweet," "be affected," "print," "be accustomed to," "view," "investigate," "slow," "tube," "enjoy," "a volume," "Chinese," and "Korean," among other meanings.
