Subject: Expressions

Expressions:

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

Barefooted as a yard dog.

Expressions

You look like you have been drug through a knot hole backwards.

Appearance Expressions

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

Characteristics Expressions Work

If things get any better, I may have to hire someone to help me enjoy it.

Characteristics Expressions Situations

Ain’t nobody out at that time a night but burglars and bad women.

Expressions Time

I’d sooner be in hell with my back broke.

Expressions Situations

He’d fight an anvil.

Characteristics Expressions

Nigher

Expressions

We've howdied but we ain't shook yet.

Expressions

Like a four-horned billy goat

Expressions

He's too lazy to scratch his own ass.

Characteristics Expressions

Busier than a moth in a mitten!

Expressions Situations

In high cotton

Expressions

Her mouth looks like a jaybird’s ass in pokeberry time.

Appearance Expressions

He couldn’t find his ass with a flashlight and a roadmap.

Expressions Intelligence Stupidity

Doesn't take too many of those to make a dozen.

Expressions

He looks like a bag of antlers.

Appearance Body Expressions

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

Characteristics Expressions Honesty

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

Expressions Time

Does a fat boy like cake.

Appearance Body Expressions Fat

She looked at me like a cow looking at a new gate.

Appearance Characteristics Expressions Intelligence