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Is the following a Simile, Metaphor or yet to be discovered treasure of which I am unaware?: "he looked at me with a tax accountant’s contempt,

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That's a metaphor.

Similes contain like or as.
...he looked at me with contempt, like a tax accountant
...he looked at me as a tax accountant would, with contempt
 
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