"There was a lot of splashing".
Roughly two different types of splashing on incompliant surfaces are described, the "prompt splash" and the "corona splash".
It's what makes the region's sauvignon blanc whites the vinous equivalent of a splash in a woodland stream.
This year's edition, the fifth, opened on Saturday, and as a start to the crowded fall performance season it's the artistic equivalent of a splash of cold water on the face.
The sports papers, the equivalent of our tabloids, splashed his boorish performance at the press conference on Thursday with pictures of him wearing his Walkman while supposedly answering questions.
A modern equivalent of the Herald splash would be a full-page profile of, say, Terry Eagleton in the Daily Mirror.
Its impact — the equivalent of a 500,000-megaton bomb blast — will splash out some 1,000 cubic miles of sea water and form a crater 15 miles across in the ocean floor.
The 49ers are just another bunch of toddlers splashing around the N.F.C.West kiddie pool, their 40-21 drubbing of Seattle this week the football equivalent of a good soaking in a water pistol fight.
The banking equivalent of Toyota?
The cabaret equivalent of "Smash"?
