Subject: Expressions

Expressions:

Humorous colloquialisms, idioms and expressions containing exaggeration, hyperbole & regional slang from around the country, though particularly from rural America.

So skinny she’d have to stand up twice to make a shadow.

Appearance Body Expressions

… since God's dog was a pup

Expressions Past Time

It's as dark as the inside of a cow.

Expressions

If I was doin’ any better, I’d have ta hire somebody to help me enjoy it!

Emotions Expressions Happiness Life

If you told her to haul butt, she would have to make two trips.

Appearance Body Expressions Fat

So short he has to stand on a box to kick a duck in the ass.

Appearance Body Expressions

It's hotter than the hinges on the gates of hell.

Expressions Heat Science/Weather

Hotter than a depot stove

Expressions Science/Weather

Swingin' my legs from a dime

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I feel like death eatin’ a soda cracker.

Expressions Health

Proud as a dog with two tails

Characteristics Expressions

She has a four-pocket backend.

Appearance Expressions Fat

You could just charm the dew off of a honey suckle.

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Like licking honey off a blackberry vine

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Crazier than a dog in a hubcap factory

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Quit spitting on the handle and get to hoeing.

Expressions Work

As useless as a pocket on a cow

Expressions

She could eat an apple through a picket fence.

Appearance Expressions

Like socks on a rooster

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Ornery as an old pine knot

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She's so skinny, she has to run around in the shower to get wet.

Appearance Body Expressions