HEARD: AS UGLY AS SIN, AS FAT AS A PIG

(12/06/2025)

By Bob Weaver For several years the Hur Herald published TODAYS QUICK QUOTE, many of them expressed by Calhoun citizens. Here is a few that rang my bell during my lifetime, rarely heard today: As poor as a church mouse, as thin as a rail, as fat as a pig. As brave as a lion, as spry as a cat. As bright as a dollar, as proud as a peacock. As sly as a fox, as mad as a hatter, as strong as an ox. As fair as a lily, as empty as air. As cross as a bear, as neat as a pin. As ugly as sin, as dead as a door nail, as white as a sheet. As flat as a pancake, as red as a beet, as crazy as a loon. As black as your hat, as blind as a bat. As full as a tick, as plump as a partridge. As clean as a whistle, as hard as flint. As bitter as gall, as fine as a fiddle. As clear as a bell, as dry as a bone, as deep as a well. As light as a feather, as proud as a cock.

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