Keyword: Other expressions (Page 42)

Can't get blood from a turnip.

It was all still and Sunday-like.

Purty as a picture

Don't call him a cowboy, till you've seen him ride.

It would be better to dress him than to feed him.

If wishes were horses, some folks would need a lot of hay.

Within a lash

Let your vittles shut your mouth.

She fell out of the ugly tree; and hit every branch on the way down.

Plantation dog

Fly off the handle

You’re trying to push a rope.

She’s got tongue enough for 10 rows of teeth.

He couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket.

Granny Scrooch

Uglier than a burnt stump

Side gal

Boy howdy!

Dumber 'n a sack of wet mice

Right as rain.

I feel fatter than a possum stuck in a fence hole.