Connections

See Also: CLINGING

1. Attached [to an idea] like a slug to its shell —Paige Mitchell
2. Bonds (of family) as immutable as a tribal code —Anon
3. Bonds frail as spider webs —George Garrett

   See Also: FRAGILITY

4. The bonds which I had thought bound me … turned out to be as flimsy and insubstantial as a kindergartner’s paper chain —Harvey Swados
5. Bound as the sun to the world’s wheel —Algernon Charles Swinburne
6. Bound together as two trees with interwoven roots —Edith Wharton
7. Bound together … like stepsisters with completely different backgrounds forced to live together under the same roof —Margaret Millar

   The comparison as used in the mystery novel, Beyond This Point Are Monsters, is applied to cities which are different in sight and sound but bound together by geography and economics.

8. (Different professional groups in an organization) bundled together, as carrots or sticks of asparagus are bundled together —Frank Swinnerton
9. Closely connected … as a mother with her baby’s belly button —Bertold Brecht
10. Connect like a recurring musical leitmotif —Anon
11. Drawn together and held like snowflakes in a glass glove —Arthur A. Cohen
12. (Lives and limbs) entwined like the roots of trees —John Logan
13. Held together as backbone holds together the ribs and limbs and head to a body —H. G. Wells
14. Holds together like a quilt —James Dickey
15. Joined together as in a wedding of rivers —George Garrett
16. Linked [together] like mountain climbers —Frank Swinnerton
17. Linked together by bonds as deep and mysterious as those which tie the mother to her young —Harvey Swados
18. Lives crossing like swords —Paige Mitchell
19. Mixes like alphabet soup —Diane Ackerman
20. Roped together like climbers on a rockface —Lawrence Durrell