A picture appeared in the air, accompanied by the emotional equivalent of a loud demand: How did you know?

I feel you have piled all your feelings in a muddled heap into the emotional equivalent of the cupboard under the stairs.

He is the emotional equivalent of a rusty junker on blocks, and not much use as a father.

Consider it the emotional equivalent of washing yourself before you mix with others.

"If Only I" is the emotional equivalent of a snuff film.

"Jared has the emotional and psychological equivalent of that disease," she said.

Its part of a reparative process, an emotional equivalent to the early love the patient didn't get.

Auden regarded her the emotional equivalent of a mother, and was close to her for many years.

So it's not surprising that severing the relationship can be the emotional equivalent of bench-pressing 150 pounds.

Jim felt the emotional equivalent of a shudder.