Subject: Expressions

Expressions:

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

Well tie me to an anthill and fill my ears with jam!

Expressions

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

Expressions Situations

They live so deep in the woods they kept possums as yard dogs.

Animals Expressions Places Situations

It is so flat, you can stand on a milk crate and watch your dog run away for three days.

Expressions Places

Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s rainin’!

Characteristics Expressions Honesty

He’s got a face like the north end of a south bound cow.

Appearance Expressions Ugly

She has got 10 foot pole marks all over her.

Appearance Expressions Ugly

He looks like a bag of antlers.

Appearance Body Expressions

Hotter than a depot stove

Expressions Science/Weather

So skinny she’d have to stand up twice to make a shadow.

Appearance Body Expressions

Nigher

Expressions

If you are going to get the grief, you might as well get the gravy.

Expressions

Quit spitting on the handle and get to hoeing.

Expressions Work

If someone told him to haul ass he’d have to make six trips.

Appearance Body Expressions Fat

Smart as a tree full of owls.

Animals Expressions Intelligence Wisdom

She could eat an apple through a picket fence.

Appearance Expressions

Slicker than a greased eel.

Characteristics Expressions

We’ve howdied but we ain’t shook yet.

Expressions

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

Expressions

Couldn’t find his rear with his hands in his back pockets

Expressions Fools Intelligence Stupidity

Happier than a pig in slop

Emotions Expressions Happiness