Subject: Expressions

Expressions:

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

He’d gripe with a ham under each arm.

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I'm so hungry I could eat a horse and chase the rider.

Expressions Food/Drink

Much obliged

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

Communication Expressions

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

Appearance Body Expressions

He’s so ugly his mother had to borrow a baby to take to church.

Appearance Expressions Ugly

He looks like the hindquarters of bad luck.

Appearance Expressions

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

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He’d steal flies from a blind spider.

Characteristics Expressions Honesty

She has got 10 foot pole marks all over her.

Appearance Expressions Ugly

He’s so lazy he wouldn’t work in a pie factory.

Characteristics Expressions Work

She has a four-pocket backend.

Appearance Expressions Fat

That room was so small you couldn’t cuss a cat without gettting fur in your mouth!

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She couldn’t catch a cold if it had handles.

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

Appearance Body Expressions

Well tie me to an anthill and fill my ears with jam!

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I feel like death eatin’ a soda cracker.

Expressions Health

You could start an argument in an empty house.

Characteristics Expressions

He lies so bad he hires somebody to call his dogs.

Characteristics Expressions Honesty Lies

Queer as a three dollar bill.

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Swingin' my legs from a dime

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