Subject: Expressions (Page 3)

Much obliged

Tougher than a boiled owl.

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

Like licking honey off a blackberry vine

She has a four-pocket backend.

Happier than a pig in slop

Quit spitting on the handle and get to hoeing.

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

Happy as a frog in God's pocket

That dog was so lazy he leaned against a fence to bark.

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

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

Smilin’ like a goat in a briarpatch

Crazier than a dog in a hubcap factory

Swingin' my legs from a dime

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

I’d have to get better just to die.

He’s so mean, he’d bite himself.

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

He looks like the hindquarters of bad luck.

… since God's dog was a pup