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That coffee's strong enough to float an iron spoon.

Don't sneeze behind a skittish horse.

That boy wouldn’t work in a pie factory, afraid he’d get full and have to quit.

Watch him; he'll slip a baby copperhead in your pocket, then ask you for a light.

Natural enough to eat pie

Get a hump on

Stronger’n a garlic milkshake

A bumblebee is faster than a tractor.

Come here and gimme a Yankee dime.

He learned to whisper in a sawmill.

He/She’s got teeth like a rake.

Deader than a door nail

Empty as a winter rain barrel.

Those wise decisions you make when you’re young are those foolish ones you’ll live with when your old.

I’m goin’ to be on you quicker than a duck on a June bug.

They live just a hoot and a holler down the road.

She could talk the leg off a horse.

That land is so poor two red-headed women couldn’t raise a fuss on it.

That's as scarce as hen's teeth.

It’s been saucered and blowed.

Between you me and the gatepost…