Thread: Colloquialisms [promises to be Unutterably Silly]
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Old 05-02-2008, 12:58 PM   #88
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Originally Posted by NatCh View Post
In Texas, well certain parts of it anyway, the expression "... than/like/as a big dog" is used quite a lot. I worked with a guy who used it almost constantly. At one point I tried to catalog all the things that a "big dog" was or was like:

Rainin' like a big dog
Hotter than a big dog
Ugly as a big dog
Runnin' like a big dog
....

Eventually I gave up: ran out of paper you know.
In Maryland in the 1960s we used "Spiro Agnew" rather than "Big Dog"
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