'thinking that things looked exactly like other things'

[cimorene]

The farmhouse itself no longer looked like a beast about to spring. (Not that it ever had, to her, for she was not in the habit of thinking that things looked exactly like other things which were as different from them in appearance as it was possible to be.)

—Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

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[vass]

From the podcast Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap, at a point in which Ursula Vernon is describing one of the dogs' farts: "...with notes of Marmite."