The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
I will do anything ... ere I'll be married to a sponge.
Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.
Take you me for a sponge?
When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
Come on, is your heart a sponge or a fist?
Your mind is like a sponge, in the sense that it would come in handy when cleaning off a countertop or something like that.
I do not drink more than a sponge.
I drink no more than a sponge.
He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.