Gee, I've been waiting for someone to post some of the ones used in my childhood part of the midwest:

just like Acky-vitty=Aqua Vitae, or as bitter as. Pushing a rope= dumb as one can get. Bootheel reader= perpetual loser. Skinned cat= someone always in a bad mood. Haggie= Haggis, or unwelcome in most places, (sometimes used to denote those of us of Scots origin in the area.

Then there is the "cut" for any man made watercourse, "Shirty", for a field or any area surounded by trees, and the "dog", meaning any road killed animal.

"Flats", mean any catfish, (flat skulled), or anyone of low morals. Gandy, for anyone who worked on steel construction, (possibly from "gandy dancer," the RR term.) And "collar" for a minister of any religion, wearing one or not.

My father, the collar, would refer to a smidge, a dolp, and a wham for any small amount of anything. My crooked cousins was a "Slick as spit." My mother's cooking was piling, (in that she cooked a lot.)

The local bar was always reffered to as the bucket, (in buying a bucket of beer, I supose.) These all come from living in a town full of Irish and Scots imigrants and a truck load of "sweeps", (coal miner's kids or decendants.)

Anyone ever heard these? Mikal