Subject: Expressions

Expressions:

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

Wound up tighter than an eight-day clock

Expressions

Don't corner something that is meaner than you.

Expressions Situations

Like socks on a rooster

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Everybody and his dog was there.

Expressions People

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

Expressions Time

He was grinning like a butchers dog.

Emotions Expressions Happiness

That baby's cuter than a speckled pup in a red wagon.

Appearance Expressions

He breathes through his nose to keep from wearing out his teeth.

Expressions Frugal

If you told her to haul butt, she would have to make two trips.

Appearance Body Expressions Fat

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

Appearance Body Expressions Fat

She was so tall if she fell down she would be halfway home.

Appearance Body Expressions

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

Characteristics Expressions Situations

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

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It's as dark as the inside of a cow.

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

Appearance Expressions

He’s too stingy to give you the time of day.

Expressions Frugal Money

As useless as a pocket on a cow

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He could wear a top hat and walk under a snake’s belly.

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He’s so ugly his mother had to borrow a baby to take to church.

Appearance Expressions Ugly

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

Characteristics Expressions Honesty Insults

Jesus loves him, but he is the only one.

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