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Better an empty house than an unwelcomed guest.

You don't have the sense God gave a chigger.

She couldn't keep her dress down.

Can you carry me up to the picture show?

He could tear up a railroad track with a rubber hammer.

Meaner 'n a rattlesnake.

Bless your pea-pickin' heart.

Like trying to sneak daylight past a rooster

A bumblebee is faster than a tractor.

Fan the door

He bought a pig in a poke.

It come up a bad cloud.

You can hear her three fields off.

Nobody here but us chickens.

Busier than a one eyed cat watching three mice holes.

Chester drawers

Either fish or cut bait.

I wouldn't speak to her if I met her in hell and she was carrying a big lump of ice.

She could make the Pope kick out a stained glass window.

If that boy was any smarter we’d have to water him every week.

He’d scare a horse from his oats.