skin-tight prison
If something is literally water-tight it means that no water can pass through it. The metaphor means that the security is so good that nothing can get through it.
Checkmate - 1960 Tight as a Drum 1-31 was released on: USA: 13 May 1961
The ear drum or timpanic membrane.
Its one of my turns
It is a metaphor because it's comparing bear and death without using "like" or "as".
Its a simile because it has the word like in it :]
It is a metaphor because it says he is a hard lump of clay. I know that it is a metaphor because a metaphor describes something to another thing as something who is another thing, not something that is like another thing.
bass drum
Field Drum
bass drum
timpanic membrane