Subject: Expressions (Page 7)

Stompin’ grounds

Expressions

Cute as a duck in a hat.

Expressions

Busier than a puppy in room full of rubber balls.

Expressions

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

Expressions Frugal

Looks like he’s been sortin’ wildcats.

Appearance Expressions

Does a fat boy like cake.

Appearance Body Expressions Fat

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

Expressions

It's hotter than the hinges on the gates of hell.

Expressions Heat Science/Weather

Happy as a frog in God's pocket

Emotions Expressions Happiness

Goin’ around your ass to get to your elbow

Expressions

He’s crooked as a barrel full of fish hooks.

Characteristics Expressions Honesty Insults

Like licking honey off a blackberry vine

Expressions

If I was doin’ any better, I’d have ta hire somebody to help me enjoy it!

Emotions Expressions Happiness Life

I feel like death eatin’ a soda cracker.

Expressions Health

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

Appearance Characteristics Expressions Intelligence

Grinning like the butcher's dog

Expressions

Everybody and his dog was there.

Expressions People

You are so lazy if you had a third hand, you’d need a third pocket to put it in.

Characteristics Expressions

Queer as a three dollar bill.

Expressions

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

Expressions Time

She could eat an apple through a picket fence.

Appearance Expressions