Subject: Expressions

Expressions:

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

Happy as a frog in God's pocket

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

You could just charm the dew off of a honey suckle.

Cute as a duck in a hat.

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

He don't know shit from peach butter.

Ornery as an old pine knot

He lies so bad he hires somebody to call his dogs.

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

Even a spotted pig looks black at night.

I’ll be on him like a wild dog on a ham.

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

It's so flat you can look down the road and see the back of your head!

He was grinnin like a possum eatin a sweet tater.

She's so skinny, she has to run around in the shower to get wet.

He is confused as a baby raccoon!

If you don't want someone to get your goat, don't let them know where it's tied.

He's too lazy to scratch his own ass.

Everybody and his dog was there.

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

I wouldn’t speak to her if I met her in hell and she was carrying ice.