Question

What is the meaning of sighing like a furnace

Answer 1

The "sighing like furnace" is a simile that compares the sounds or feelings associated with a furnace during the lover's time of life. Think of the images that a furnace produces in your mind.

Answer 2

Explanation:

It is a proverb which represents the love life of a young man.

The function of furnace is heating the material inside it and to heat them the furnace will be releasing some light or heat or sound as wastage.

Similarly, when a young man falls in love for a first time, he will be love struck and will always be in memory for his love and his face will be glowing always just like furnace which is glowing when heating at high temperature.

So, “sighing like a furnace” means that a young man has fallen deeply and madly in love with his lady.