YOU SAID:
as fat as the butchers dog
INTO JAPANESE
肉屋の犬と同じくらい太っている
BACK INTO ENGLISH
As fat as a butcher's dog.
INTO JAPANESE
肉屋の犬のように太っている。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
He is fat like a butcher's dog.
INTO JAPANESE
彼は肉屋の犬のように太っている。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
He is as fat as a butcher's dog.
INTO JAPANESE
彼は肉屋の犬と同じくらい太っている。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
He is as fat as a butcher's dog.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.