Author: Country expression Page 31

He can get glad the same way he got mad, or else he's gon' die unhappy.

She’d scare a haint up a thorn tree.

He's country as a bowl of grits.

He didn't get there on a paved road.

He's ugly enough to scare the buzzards off a gut wagon.

Like a rooster in an empty henhouse

I was born on a Friday, but not last Friday.

I haven't seen you since Hector was a pup.

Don’t insult the alligator till you’ve crossed the stream.

Like a turkey in young corn

Talk to the table.

Grace the table.

You plant a tater, you get a tater.

Bring the door

I'm so hungry, my stomach is gnawing on my backbone!

I’ll wear you out till your hide won’t hold shucks.

It daddied itself

His brain rolls around in his head like a mustard seed in a five gallon bucket.

They’re like two peas in a pod.

Cooler than a flip side of a down pillow.

Cute as a sack full of puppies.