A wonderful speech given by historian Michael Beschloss, quoting Lyndon Johnson and many other of presidential bits.
The quote that led me there was Lyndon Johnson's statement that "Hubert, that Medicare bill is going to go through Congress faster than a dose of salt through a widow woman." I'll let you scroll to the translation.
An boss of mine used the phrase "Nervous as a whore in church" too, and stumped me, like Johnson stumped his non-Texans, with "The rain's coming down like a cow on a flat rock." It was much later that I finally learned the missing word "pissing" had been cleaned out of his sentence.
This is a good page to learn to speak like a Southerner. One of the girls I tutored a few weeks ago didn't know what I meant by "calling dibs" (from dibs, short for dibstones, gamepieces) so I won't assume which speech quirks are familiar. Here's some more piquant sayings.
Posted by argus at September 30, 2003 12:20 AM