Good Christ, he felt like a steam kettle ready to blow.

"Shall I stay awake to tend Cholayna's steam kettle or will you?"

She did a creditable job of expressing the doubleaspirated slide tone at the end, sounding like a steam kettle about to explode.

Air hissed through his teeth, sounding like an old steam kettle.

Her energy gun caught it, and it blew like a steam kettle, not a bomb.

Sheridan's temper bottlenecked in her throat, then burst forth like a steam kettle.

Henry said, TThey must have used your steam kettle.

Additionally more than 80% of patients have reported tinnitus (most often a unilateral high-pitched ringing, sometimes a machinery-like roaring or hissing sound, like a steam kettle).

The earl looked like a steam kettle about to blow.

O.K., it wasn't an apple falling on Newton's head or Watt contemplating a steam kettle.