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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Redneck Putdown

Back in August I read about a wonderful British expression for taking down an over-confident blow-hard, "all mouth and no trousers." Today I ran into that expression's country cousin, "all hat and no cattle." I saw the phrase in an op-ed piece in the Houston Chronicle, but I can't tell you if it's a genuine Texas saying because I've never heard it before.

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