Wild west phrases
Hello
I am making a western shortfilm, with cowboys and indians.
I need some phrases and funny cowboyslang to spice up my dialogues, do you know any or where to get them?
Southern Country American is also welcome ;)
/Tor
Lower than a snake's belly.
Fine as frog hair.
White man speak with forked tongue.
(Those are all clichés.)
What Word Camel said: Check out Larry McMurtry's western books or anything set in Texas, really. He has a knack for it.
Lonely as a preacher on pay night.
Restless as a hen on a hot griddle.
Crooked as a snake in a cactus patch.
From "Cowboy Lingo: A Dictionary of the Slack-Jaw Words and Whangdoodle Ways of the American West" by Ramon F. Adams (Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2000. Copyright 1936).
You should buy the above book.