 As with comparisons generally, our interest in a simile usually isn’t an interest in the bare fact of likeness; it’s an interest in the specific features of (an) A in virtue of which it’s figuratively like (a) B. So: ordinarily a listener is expected to infer for himself or notice for himself what it is about (an) A that’s supposed to make it count as like (a) B by these newly prevailing, adjusted standards: