A man is low stout and very fat: if you met him in the street you'd rather jump over him than walk round him.
He knew as much Latin as if he swallowed a dictionary. (Gerald Griffin.)
The word destroy is very often used to characterize any trifling damage easily remedied:—That car splashed me, and my coat is all destroyed.
'They kept me dancin' for 'em in the kitchen,' says Barney Broderick, 'till I hadn't a leg to put under me.' ('Knocknagow.')
This farm of mine is as bad land as ever a crow flew over.
He's as great a rogue as ever stood in shoe-leather.
When Jack heard the news of the money that was coming to him he was jumping out of his skin with delight.
I bought these books at an auction, and I got them for a song: in fact I got them for half nothing.
Very bad slow music is described as the tune the old cow died of.