Appalachian Colloquialisms

I just love all of these old sayings. I have heard them all my life and I think they take the cake.

1. He lies so bad he has to hire someone else to call his dogs.
2. Ready with his hat and slow with his money. (Courteous and close fisted.)
3. He has more information than a Sears Roebuck catalog. (He knows it all.)
4. Few weevils in his cotton. (He’s a decent fellow)
5. He lies like a rug.
6. He’s so slippery he’d hold his own in a pond full of eels.
7. He’s a flat out liar.
8. A near man with a dollar. (Stingy)
9. A close chewer and a tight spitter. (Stingy)
10. He wants the earth and the moon with two strands of bob wire around it-and it white washed. (Greedy)
11. He’s so tight when he blinks his eyes his toe’s curl up.
12. He’s so tight when he grins his pecker skins back.
13. She makes pancakes so thin they’ve got just one side to them. (Stingy)
14. His uncle stole my grandpa’s horse. (Untrustworthy)
15. Smart as a tree full of owls.
16. Mosey (slow)
17. Coat-tails a poppin. (Angry and in a hurry)
18. With every foot up and toe-nails dragging. (Hurrying)
19. Skedaddle (Get out of here.)
20. Anything caught in my trap belongs to me.
21. Anything my dog trees, I’ll eat.
22. Grinnin like a barrel of monkeys.
23. Like a bug arguing with a chicken. (Useless)