“As thrunk as three in a bed.”
Thrunk = crowded.
“It is time to yoke when the cart comes to the caples.”
“In some part of England they call a horse a caple.”—Chaucer. Latin = Caballus.
“Good to fetch a rich man sorrow and a dead man woe.”
“As much wit as three folks—two fools and a madman.”
“She hath been to London to call a strea a straw, and a waw a wall.”
Adopting the London pronunciation and forgetting, or being ashamed of, the county dialect.
“To come home like the parson’s cow, with a calf at her foot.”
“To look a strained hair in a can.”