WORDS FITLY SPOKEN
From a collection of expressions coined in the rural south: “He’s so tight he don’t even breathe all the air he needs.” “A few drinks of that and you’re nine feet tall and bulletproof.” “He’s so ugly he’d make a freight train take a dirt road.” “It ain’t that he’s mean, but the mean ones don’t mess with him.” “Long as I got a biscuit, you got half.” “Life is like bein’ on a mule team. Unless you’re the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same.” Kathryn Jenson, Rednickin’ (Putnam), as quoted in Reader’s Digest
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