adj.

1. Present and ready for use; at hand; accessible: kept a fire extinguisher available at all times.

2. Capable of being gotten; obtainable: a bedspread available in three colors.

3. Qualified and willing to serve or assist: a list of available candidates; was not available for comment.

1. About as hard to get as lion shit in Africa —Stephen Longstreet
2. Accessible as a candidate looking for another hand to shake —Mike Sommer
3. Accessible as a hooker plying her trade —Anon
4. As unattainable, as desirable, as beauty —Margaret Sutherland

   See Also:DESIRABILITY

5. (Drinks here) flow like cement —John Mortimer, Public Television series, “Paradise Postponed,” 1986
6. Has been handed round like snuff at a wake —Ellen Currie

   The descriptive frame of reference is a promiscuous girl.

7. Inaccessible as time —Alice McDermott

   In her novel, That Night, the author talks about old neighborhoods from which parents have moved away and now say “You can’t go there anymore” as if change made a place inaccessible as time.

8. Laying around like pop-corn —Clifford Odets

   Odets follows this up with “You think good boys are laying around like pop-corn?”

9. Like an apple hanging on a tree, waiting for somebody to come along and pick it —Lee Smith
10. Like Meissen china in a glass case, the admiration [for an appealing but inaccessible woman] had to be kept at a distance —Jilly Cooper
11. Lived high up [in an apartment complex] … as accessible as a bald Rapunzel —William Mcllvanney
12. Unobtainable as a taxi when it rains —Anon
13. Untouchable as God —Erich Maria Remarque