Subject: Expressions

Expressions:

Humorous colloquialisms, idioms and expressions containing exaggeration, hyperbole & regional slang from around the country, though particularly from rural America.

He could sell socks to a rooster.

Raising kids is like being pecked to death by a chicken.

She’s so fat it takes two dogs to bark at her.

Faster than a dog's tail in a meat market.

It’s so hot I could spit fire.

Harder’n baptizing a cat.

She couldn’t catch a cold if it had handles.

Nigher

He’s so lazy he wouldn’t work in a pie factory.

He goes to church on Sunday, steals chickens on Monday.

Tougher than a boiled owl.

He’d fight an anvil.

That dog was so lazy he leaned against a fence to bark.

That politician is so crooked he can hide behind a corkscrew.

He's as crooked as a barrel of snakes.

Jesus loves him, but he is the only one.

Not enough to say grace over.

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

He’d steal flies from a blind spider.

Smilin’ like a goat in a briarpatch

He’s crooked as a barrel full of fish hooks.