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RE: FUN COMPARISONS AND DESCRIPTIVES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE... - Hobbit99 - 03-21-2024
Here is an interesting saying taken from a recent book. It is sort of a witty rejoinder that is NOT a compliment. More like a 'slap in the face'. A comment about a person's intelligence.
...he wasn’t able to string two words together without misspelling both of them.
RE: FUN COMPARISONS AND DESCRIPTIVES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE... - Hobbit99 - 03-25-2024
Here are a couple more favorite "Southern" sayings (Similes, Metaphors, other allusions..)
"As welcome as an outhouse breeze"
"Dark as a sack of black cats"
"Brave as a bigamist"
RE: FUN COMPARISONS AND DESCRIPTIVES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE... - Hobbit99 - 03-26-2024
Here are a couple more sayings that evoke a distinct image in the 'mind's eye'.
"The wrinkled visage looked older than Florida..."
"A smile as warm as a clear morning in January..."
RE: FUN COMPARISONS AND DESCRIPTIVES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE... - Hobbit99 - 04-24-2024
Here is an interesting usage for a common phrase...
"I had met her. A shit-stirrer. With a great big spoon."
From Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson
RE: FUN COMPARISONS AND DESCRIPTIVES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE... - Hobbit99 - 04-30-2024
Here are a couple of sayings from a recent book. Could be called an adage possibly, or perhaps "proverb' would be closer to correct.
“In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king,”
From The Druid by Jeff Wheeler
“It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.”
From The Druid by Jeff Wheeler
RE: FUN COMPARISONS AND DESCRIPTIVES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE... - Hobbit99 - 06-02-2024
Here are some "Southern" sayings from my old notebooks of adages...
We’re closer than two roaches on a bacon bit.
You look like something the cat dragged in and the kittens didn’t want.
Smaller than a tick turd. (THAT would be SMALL.!!)
RE: FUN COMPARISONS AND DESCRIPTIVES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE... - Hobbit99 - 06-28-2024
Here are a few more sayings (idioms) that are more prevalent in the South...
As confused as a goat on astro-turf...
Grinning like a possum eating a sweet potato.
I’m just hanging out like a hair in a biscuit.
It’s quieter than a mouse peeing on cotton.
RE: FUN COMPARISONS AND DESCRIPTIVES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE... - Hobbit99 - 07-04-2024
Here are some woodpecker comparisons --- Similes - Metaphors
As confused as a rubber nosed woodpecker in a petrified forest. (as effective as..; As tired as... )
As silent as a woodpecker with a headache.
Harder than woodpecker lips..
RE: FUN COMPARISONS AND DESCRIPTIVES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE... - Hobbit99 - 10-01-2024
I have a bunch more of these sayings; figures of speech; proverbs; adages; or whatever and however you want to refer to them... So, I guess I'll throw some more of them out there.
For the person wh was angry, riled up, and ready to fight..
**He was tail up and stinger out..
For someone DEEP in trouble, or jail, or..??
**He was so deep in trouble he would have to be fed beans with a slingshot..
Someone scared or anxious...
**He was squirming like a worm in hot ashes..
For someone who was spaced out or in daydreaming...
**You're so blind you would miss a crawdad playing cards with Ray Charles...
For someone who was hurt, hammered thumb, stubbed toe, banged head...
**He screamed like a mashed cat..
Where something was used up or eaten up or just plain missing...
**It was scarce as deviled eggs after a church picnic..