Keyword: Other expressions (Page 40)

Like a turkey in young corn

You’d walk her down the front row of a revival meeting.

Lying like a snake in the grass.

Quicker than a cat can lick’s its ass

In the marble orchard.

She'll be late to her own funeral.

Full as a tick

He don’t use his kindlin’ to get a fire started.

Pot licker

The fool’s so lost he don’t know if he’s afoot or on horseback.

That ain't worth the powder to blow it to hell.

Talk the legs off a dead mule – or – talk the hind leg off a donkey

Fixments

He’d complain if you hung him with a new rope.

So cross-eyed he could look at his own head.

A face like a cobbler’s thumb

He's dumber than a mud fence.

Short as a gnat's tail

If it was raining soup, he'd be out in the yard with a fork.

Empty as a winter rain barrel.

Chestnut time