Subject: Expressions (Page 6)

In high cotton

Expressions

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

Expressions

I feel like death eatin’ a soda cracker.

Expressions Health

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

Expressions Frugal

They whipped us like a tied up goat.

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Expressions Football Sports

She has a four-pocket backend.

Appearance Expressions Fat

Cute as a duck in a hat.

Expressions

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

Expressions

Her mouth looks like a jaybird’s ass in pokeberry time.

Appearance Expressions

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

Communication Expressions

He goes to church on Sunday, steals chickens on Monday.

Beliefs Expressions Honesty

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

So crosseyed, she could look at her own head.

Appearance Expressions

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

Expressions Time

He was shaking like a 50¢ ladder.

Expressions

I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.

Expressions

He looks like a bag of antlers.

Appearance Body Expressions

He's grinning like a mule eating briars.

Appearance Emotions Expressions Happiness

I’ll be on him like a wild dog on a ham.

Expressions

He don't know shit from peach butter.

Expressions Intelligence Stupidity

He’d gripe with a ham under each arm.

Expressions