Subject: Expressions (Page 5)

We were so poor we had to eat dough for breakfast and sit out in the sun for lunch!

Eating Expressions Food/Drink Money Poverty

She's not wearing enough clothes to flag a hand car.

Appearance Clothing Expressions

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

Characteristics Expressions Honesty Lies

Smilin’ like a goat in a briarpatch

Appearance Expressions

It’s so hot I could spit fire.

Expressions

She’s so big, it takes two men and a boy just to look at her.

Appearance Body Expressions Fat

He don't know shit from peach butter.

Expressions Intelligence Stupidity

He was lookin' at me like a country mule lookin at a freight train.

Expressions

She’s a tall drink of water.

Appearance Body Expressions

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

Communication Expressions

Ugly as stump full of spiders.

Appearance Expressions Ugly

He’d gripe with a ham under each arm.

Expressions

Amber days

Expressions

Nervous as a cat in a room full of rockers

Characteristics Emotions Expressions

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

Appearance Body Expressions

Stompin’ grounds

Expressions

She looked at me like a cow looking at a new gate.

Appearance Characteristics Expressions Intelligence

In high cotton

Expressions

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

Expressions Food/Drink Frugal Money

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

Expressions

He’s too stingy to give you the time of day.

Expressions Frugal Money