Subject: Expressions (Page 3)

He could sell ice to an Eskimo.

Characteristics Expressions

We were so poor we had to eat dough for breakfast and sit out in the sun for lunch!

Eating Expressions Food/Drink Money Poverty

You could start an argument in an empty house.

Characteristics Expressions

Smilin’ like a goat in a briarpatch

Appearance Expressions

Stompin’ grounds

Expressions

The new asphalt is like putting a tuxedo on a rattlesnake.

American auto racer
Auto racing Expressions Sports

Harder’n baptizing a cat.

Expressions

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

Expressions

She’s a tall drink of water.

Appearance Body Expressions

He couldn’t grow pole beans in a pile of horse shit.

Expressions Fools Intelligence Stupidity

Nervous as a hound pissing peach pits

Emotions Expressions

Quit spitting on the handle and get to hoeing.

Expressions Work

Happier than a pig in slop

Emotions Expressions Happiness

So windy he could blow up an onion sack.

Communication Exaggerations Expressions Speech

He's grinning like a mule eating briars.

Appearance Emotions Expressions Happiness

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

Expressions

Hotter than a depot stove

Expressions Science/Weather

She’s so big, it takes two men and a boy just to look at her.

Appearance Body Expressions Fat

As useless as a pocket on a cow

Expressions

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

Appearance Expressions Ugly

She has got 10 foot pole marks all over her.

Appearance Expressions Ugly