A Christmas Carol

What is the simile in the second paragraph

Second Paragraph in Stave one

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The simile is in bold type.

I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for.

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A Christmas Carol