If we had a super heavy rainstorm, dad would say it's a real "gully-washer". The sound of the rain pouring off the roof and splashing on the front steps would "sound like a cow pissin' on a flat rock".

If you can't run with the big dogs, stay under the porch.

Colder'n a well digger's ass.

I'm so hungry I could eat the north end out of a south-bound mule. (then I'd be full as a tick)

Busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest. (or a one-armed paperhanger)

He ran like a scalded ape.