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| All talking and no listening, after the manner of a Woman’s Rights Convention. | 1 |
| Big as all out of doors. | 2 |
| Busy as a hen with fifteen chickens in a barnyard. | 3 |
| Cold as the north side of a January gravestone by moonlight. | 4 |
| Crazy as a bedbug. | 5 |
| Fierce as a ramcat. | 6 |
| Foul as Zebedee’s hen that laid three rotten eggs to a good one. | 7 |
| Fresh as butter just from the churn. | 8 |
| Good as wheat. | 9 |
| Handy as a pocket in a shirt. | 10 |
| Happy as a clam at high water. | 11 |
| Hot as the devil’s kitchen. | 12 |
| Hungry as a graven image. | 13 |
| Important as a militia officer on a training day. | 14 |
| Long as a Thanksgiving sermon. | 15 |
| Long-winded as a tornado. | 16 |
| Mad as all wrath. | 17 |
| Mad as a bull among bumble bees. | 18 |
| Melancholy as a Quaker meeting-house by moonlight. | 19 |
| Natural as grinning to a hyena. | 20 |
| Quick as greased lightning. | 21 |
| Rough as the back of a hedgehog. | 22 |
| Scarce as hens’ teeth. | 23 |
| Shake him up like a shirt in a hurricane. | 24 |
| Sharp as the little end of nothing. | 25 |
| Sick as a horse. | 26 |
| Silently as a snail slips over a cabbage leaf on a dewy morning. | 27 |
| Slick as greased lightning. | 28 |
| Slick as sin. | 29 |
| Slick as a whistle. | 30 |
| Slick as grease. | 31 |
| Smiling as a basket of chips. | 32 |
| Stick like a Comanche on a mustang. The worse it jumps, the tighter he sticks. | 33 |
| Straight as a loon’s leg. | 34 |
| Straight as a shingle. | 35 |
| Sure as a gun. | 36 |
| Tough as old hickory. | 37 |
| Useless as whistling psalms to a dead horse. | 38 |
| Full of wit as a ginger-bottle is of pop. | 39 |
| Wrathy as a militia officer on a training day. | 40 |
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