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Jump the broomstick

He could tear up a railroad track with a rubber hammer.

Don’t go off with your pistol half cocked.

He wants the earth and the moon with two strands of bob wire around it – and it white washed.

He was so slick he could steal the sweet from sugar without touching a grain

I’m as confused as a termite in a yo-yo.

Pull in your horns.

"shootin" horseshoes

Devil's beating his wife with a frying pan

Don't go back on your raisin'

You could throw her in a river and skim ugly for two days.

Leanin' on the shovel

Stand pappy

You'll go to hell for lyin' just as fast as fer stealin' chickens.

I’m gonna have a ‘Come to Jesus’ meeting with him.

You're diggin’ your own grave.

Sure as the vine twines 'round the stump, you are my darlin' sugar lump.

I didn’t just fall off a turnip truck.

Give a 50 cent answer for a nickel question.

He sticks to that boy like white on rice.

She could talk the leg off a horse.