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Her tongue was tied in the middle and loose at both ends.

About as useful as buttons on a dishrag

Knee high to a grasshopper

Like a jackass in a tin stable

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

His face was all plowed up

He looks like he stepped out of a bandbox.

Prettier than a spotted heifer in a pansy patch!

Fair to middlin’

I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.

He’d have to get smarter… just to be stupid.

I’ll cloud up and rain all over you.

He's three days older than Moses.

She is so smart, even her teachers play chess with her.

Lay out of work or school

Slow as an iron toad

He’s gone to hell in a hand basket.

Ain't that the berries!

If my dog was ugly as you, I’d shave his butt and make him walk backwards.

If [such and such happens] then it’s gonna be too wet to plow.

Don't go back on your raisin'