The first is the intellectual equivalent of beauty follies.

THE hackers who break into a company's computers are usually on the intellectual equivalent of joyrides.

It is the intellectual equivalent of a front-end loader replacing the ditch-digger.

Call it the intellectual equivalent of globalization.

They are the intellectual equivalent of ambulance chasers.

Presented in four installments, it was the intellectual equivalent of an iron-man competition.

The old darling is the intellectual equivalent of a Cruise missile.

Picking out a single book is the intellectual equivalent of eating one potato chip.

Mr. Duvall, a long-distance runner when he has the time, described those 16 months as the intellectual equivalent of running a marathon.

This was a month after the dismal meeting at the zoo when Bruce Ainson had received the intellectual equivalent of a flea in his ear.