Need to some metaphores Would you please tell me some metaphors used in English literature for a woman body.( polite ones). for example in Persian we use red ruby foe lips.Sorry, I think my question is not obvious enough. In eastern culture , objectifying a woman is offensive, too. I read an American suspense translated in Persian under the name of - This man is dangerous by peter chini-, I don't know the original name. in this book , I read a sentence in which a man described the teeth of a woman in such a manner: "Her teeth are like a raw of pearl" I mean such a imagery. I Sorry. I made a mistake about writer. Here is exact inf. about him: Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse Cheyney, known as Peter Cheyney, (22 February 1896 — 26 June 1951) was a British crime fiction writer who flourished between 1936 and 1951. Cheyney is the author of hard-boiled short stories and novels, some of which were adapted to film; his character Lemmy Caution was famously appropriated by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard for the science fiction movie Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution. His other memorable creation is Slim Callaghan, a somewhat disreputable private detective most at home in the less savoury sections of London. Although his novels sold in the millions during his lifetime, he is almost forgotten today, and his works are mostly out of print.