Keyword: Other expressions (Page 32)

A face like a cobbler’s thumb

I like a gal where her skin fits a little better.

As stubborn as a blue-nose mule and as busy as a cranberry merchant.

Boy howdy!

This likker is just right; if it’d been any worse, I couldn’t have drunk it; if it’d been any better, you wouldn’t have give it to me.

As easy as herding chickens/cats

In your life, you’ve got to eat a peck of dirt.

You need to count your fingers after shaking hands with him.

That cat is wilder than an acre of snakes.

His family tree is a trunk.

Like an old hen with one chick

Higher the hair, closer to God.

Go off half-cocked

Good Lord willin’ and the creek don’t rise

He acts like he’s ten feet tall and bullet-proof.

Hangin’ in there like a hair in a biscuit.

Crazy as a dog in a hub cap factory.

Caught with your pants down.

The fly in the ointment.

He is so green if you stuck him in the ground he would grow.

He ain't sawing logs, he's clearing brush.