Keyword: Other expressions (Page 40)

As long as Pat stayed in the army

Don’t jus’ stand there with yer fanger in yer mouth!

Lower than the belly of a snake in a wagon track

Lying like a snake in the grass.

I’m so confused I don’t know whether to scratch my watch or wind my butt.

Mind that frayed cord – it’ll knock your pecker into yer watchpocket!

She’s so poor she ain’t got two nickels to rub together.

Get the short end of the stick

Held his hind leg.

It's cold enough to hang meat in here.

Bumpin’ yer gums!

Do it up brown

Uglier than a burnt stump

I’m fair to middlin’.

Took the preachers seat

Put it on the front door.

Sure as a cat's got climbing gear.

He wouldn't go to a funeral unless he could be the corpse.

It's hotter than the four sides of Hell.

Longer than a visit from my mother in law.

Green as a gourd