Subject: Expressions

Expressions:

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

As ugly as a bulldog chewing a wasp.

Animals Appearance Dogs Expressions Ugly

He’s so skinny, his pants had only one back pocket.

Appearance Body Expressions

She makes pancakes so thin they’ve got just one side to them.

Expressions Food/Drink Frugal Money

She’s so fat it takes two dogs to bark at her.

Appearance Body Expressions Fat

He’d steal flies from a blind spider.

Characteristics Expressions Honesty

He couldn’t find his ass with a flashlight and a roadmap.

Expressions Intelligence Stupidity

He was grinnin like a possum eatin a sweet tater.

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

Characteristics Expressions Work

He’d fight an anvil.

Characteristics Expressions

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

He’s so mean, he’d bite himself.

Characteristics Expressions

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

Expressions

Like socks on a rooster

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

Communication Expressions

It is so flat, you can stand on a milk crate and watch your dog run away for three days.

Expressions Places

He could wear a top hat and walk under a snake’s belly.

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If you don't want someone to get your goat, don't let them know where it's tied.

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Ain’t nobody out at that time a night but burglars and bad women.

Expressions Time

She has got 10 foot pole marks all over her.

Appearance Expressions Ugly

He is confused as a baby raccoon!

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