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We see people are struggling to find suitable similes for the color red, so here are a few suggested as red as similes. Some of them we have found in use elsewhere, some we just plain made up (you'll spot those!). If you have any better suggestions for our collection you can mail them to the webmaster@[this domain].

as red as fire
as red as blood

as red as red can be
as red as communism
as red as Rudolph's nose
as red as a red thing
(sorry, that's just obtuse British humor)
as red as a rose
as red as a beet/beetroot
(usu. of the face, when embarassed)
as red as FF0000 (if you don't get that one, it probably means you have a life! By the way, we're more the 990000 and CC0000 type at It's Gotta Be Red)
as red as traffic lights (from the BBC - we assume this doesn't refer to the green/amber ones)
as red as Idaho
as red as maple leaves/red earth/bear's blood
(hey, that's what it says here!)
as red as Ken (only Brits will get this)
as red as the hands of the Red Hand Gang
 
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