Subject: Expressions

Expressions:

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

Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's rainin'!

Characteristics Expressions Honesty

He couldn’t grow pole beans in a pile of horse shit.

Expressions Fools Intelligence Stupidity

Tougher than a boiled owl.

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If you are going to get the grief, you might as well get the gravy.

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I wouldn’t speak to her if I met her in hell and she was carrying ice.

Expressions Insults Opinion

They live so deep in the woods they kept possums as yard dogs.

Animals Expressions Places Situations

Cute as a duck in a hat.

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

Appearance Body Expressions Fat

I just asked you what time it was, not how a watch works.

Communication Expressions

Proud as a dog with two tails

Characteristics Expressions

He looks like the hindquarters of bad luck.

Appearance Expressions

Ornery as an old pine knot

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He's as crooked as a barrel of snakes.

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He is confused as a baby raccoon!

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He’d steal flies from a blind spider.

Characteristics Expressions Honesty

Nervous as a hound pissing peach pits

Emotions Expressions

He sure has hay on his horns today.

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It's so flat you can look down the road and see the back of your head!

Expressions Places

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

Appearance Body Expressions

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

Appearance Body Expressions

He breathes through his nose to keep from wearing out his teeth.

Expressions Frugal