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Gray as a badger. Thin as a bat's ear. Have a bear by the tail. Work like a beaver. I'm a gone goslin'. He cooned up a tree. Smart as a fox. A groundhog case (something one must do). Sly as a mink. Squall like a painter (or catamount). Grin like a possum, Play possum. Weasel words.
Smell like a buzzard. Eat crow. Naked as a jaybird. Tough as a biled owl. Scatter like quail. Skinny as a rail. Long-legged as a fly-up-the-creek (or shite poke - the bittern). Talk turkey. Silly as a coot. Feel as low as a snake's belly. Crooked as a snake. Swelled up like a stuffed toad. Stick like a leech. Pulled in his horns (like a snail). Shut up like a clam. Swallow hook, line and sinker. I've got other fish to fry. Bees in his bonnet. Spry (or peart) as a cricket. Thicker'n fleas on a dog's back. You can't catch flies with vinegar. Mad as a hornet. Knee-high to a grasshopper. Full as a tick. I put a bug in his ear (started him to thinking).
Like a blind dog in a meat-house"; "dark as the inside of a cow, "proud as a dog with two tails"; "squeal like a pig caught under a gate"; hair like a last year's bird nest"; and "like a cow's tail -- always behind", were some of the comical ones. But, of course, "everybody to his own taste", as the old woman said when she kissed her cow.
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Gray as a badger. Thin as a bat's ear. Have a bear by the tail. Work like a beaver. I'm a gone goslin'. He cooned up a tree. Smart as a fox. A groundhog case (something one must do). Sly as a mink. Squall like a painter (or catamount). Grin like a possum, Play possum. Weasel words.
Smell like a buzzard. Eat crow. Naked as a jaybird. Tough as a biled owl. Scatter like quail. Skinny as a rail. Long-legged as a fly-up-the-creek (or shite poke - the bittern). Talk turkey. Silly as a coot. Feel as low as a snake's belly. Crooked as a snake. Swelled up like a stuffed toad. Stick like a leech. Pulled in his horns (like a snail). Shut up like a clam. Swallow hook, line and sinker. I've got other fish to fry. Bees in his bonnet. Spry (or peart) as a cricket. Thicker'n fleas on a dog's back. You can't catch flies with vinegar. Mad as a hornet. Knee-high to a grasshopper. Full as a tick. I put a bug in his ear (started him to thinking).
Like a blind dog in a meat-house"; "dark as the inside of a cow, "proud as a dog with two tails"; "squeal like a pig caught under a gate"; hair like a last year's bird nest"; and "like a cow's tail -- always behind", were some of the comical ones. But, of course, "everybody to his own taste", as the old woman said when she kissed her cow.
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