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The hair is in the butter.

You couldn't hit sand if you fell off a camel.

Lay out… (of work/school)

Empty as a winter rain barrel.

Girl, you look so good I could take you home and sop you up with a biscuit.

He could sell firewood in hell.

Does a snake have hips?

She wouldn’t say shit if she had a mouthful.

He wants the earth and the moon with two strands of bob wire around it – and it white washed.

Slower than a bread wagon with biscuit wheels.

Is a pig's ass pork?

You’ve got the saw by the wrong tree.

I’ve been to two goat ropin’s and a county fair and I ain’t seen nothin’ like this.

He’s just loudin’ off.

The engine's runnin' but ain't nobody driving.

Drunk as Cooter Brown

Tighter than bark on a tree

This is gooder'n grits.

You're a dime holdin’ up a dollar.

Skinny as a bean pole.

Like a goose a-goin’ barefooted