Hi alexander -- on Jul 27 2012 at 08:42, you wrote:   
      
   ak> In Golden's "Arthas: Rise of the Lich King" I read:   
      
   ak> [Arthas was indeed sweaty and knew he smelled like horse.]   
      
   ak> Why on earth it is not "smelled like a horse"? ;-)   
      
   Apart from the fact that it's fantasy fiction and therefore breaks many rules   
   with impunity, I think this a way of generalizing a thing.   
      
   In other words, "horse" is equivalent to "perfume". We could say "smelled like   
   skunk", "smelled like manure", "smelled like perfume", and so on.   
      
   Follow up: Mark is right, too! :-)   
      
   Cheers... Dallas   
      
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