In Alabama [the South], we have so many southernisms and we say them without even thinking. With two students from Sudan living in the house - they are so confused by these silly sayings. Several weeks ago, I had left them in the car while I ran into the store. When I returned to the car, I said "She talked the ears off a billy goat"! Bullen laughed and laughed at the saying. So several days later I went to pick them up from school and Bullen got into the car and stated, "that teacher has billy goat ears". I love it!
"He could talk the ears off a billy goat"
"Fish or cut bait"
"Poop or get off the pot"
"Pot to pee in or a window to throw it out of"
"Beggars can't be choosy"
"He's about as useful as a tit on a boar hog"
"Took off like a scalded dog"
"Wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which one fills up faster"
"I've known him since he was knee-high to a coke bottle"
"Nervous as a whore in church"
"Colder than a welddiggers ---"
"Could break a steel ball with a rubber hammer"
"Queer as a three dollar bill"
Dumb as a box of rocks
"She is ugly as Homeade Sin"
"He's not the sharpest tool in the shed"
"Mad as a hornet"
"As cool as a cucumber"
"If you can't take the heat - get out of the kitchen"
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