The closest equivalent in Britain might be Colin Mitchell, designer of the Spitfire.
The closest equivalent in Germany is Dirk Müller, a Frankfurt trader known as "Mr DAX".
I thought the closest equivalent to Corbucci's brutal landscapes would be the antebellum South.
Perhaps the closest equivalent is in Japan, with its national high school baseball tournaments, spring Koshien and summer Koshien.
The closest equivalent in British racing is probably the association between the McCain family and the Grand National, founded on the three victories of Ginger McCain's Red Rum.
The closest equivalent is a fast-track trial, which Mr. Guede's lawyers asked for with the hope of a shorter sentence for him.
For this would-be explorer, the closest equivalent to Tom Sawyer's fence-hopping is turning on a video game -- if his mother doesn't stop him.
It wasn't easy -- there aren't many -- but last year we found the closest equivalent, a house just over the Truro border within walking distance of Horseleech.
So I opened the closest equivalent I own and pointed my phone at Exercise 4.5f, which requests the reader to "solve the following equations".
With its box office drawing power, City Hall management structure and aggressive media policy, the closest equivalent we have is the Australian Football League.
The closest equivalent I could find was in Jennie Grossinger's "Art of Jewish Cooking," which my mother gave me when I got married.
