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According to Dictionary.com hyperbole is an obvious and intentional exaggeration or an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, such as “to wait an eternity.”

• A face that launched 1000 ships (Helen of Troy)
• A face that would stop a clock
• A face that only a mother could love
• A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips
• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
• As jaundiced/yellow as a pumpkin
• Biscuit poisoning
• Bleeding like a stuck pig
• Brain the size of a pea
• Burning up with fever
• Carrying the weight of the world on one's shoulders
• Cast iron stomach
• Chewed up and spit out
• Chopped off at the knees
• Colder than zero degrees Kelvin (theoretically impossible)
• Costs an arm and a leg
• Costs your first borne child
• Cut down to size
• Dead dog tired
• Dead from the neck up
• Dead tired
• Die of embarassment
• Dog tired
• Don't bite my head off
• Drowning in paperwork
• Eating us out of house and home
• Eats like a bird
• Eats like a P-I-G pig !!!
• Enough to worry the poop out of a rag doll
• Eyes bigger than saucers
• Eyes bigger than your stomach
• Faster than a sppeeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound (Superman)
• Finer than frog hair split four ways
• Full as a tick
• Had my head handed to me
• Hears a pin drop a mile away
• Heart of gold
• High as a kite
• Hotter than a firecracker
• Hungry enough to eat a horse
• "I'd walk a million miles for one of your smiles" -Al Jolson
• I felt cold as ice
• I feel dead tired
• I feel like a million bucks!!!
• I feel like a walking time bomb
• I feel like I've been run over by a truck
• I feel like the cat dragged me in
• I feel like the weight of the world is on my shoulders
• I feel old as the hills
• I feel older than dirt
• I feel sick as hell
• I felt like a pin cushion when they were done drawing my blood
• I felt like I broke every bone in my body
• I had such a headache I thought my head was going to explode
• I have a million things to do
• I have more gas than Atlanta Gas Light Company
• I have so many health problems ms, I feel like a train wreck
• I look like nothing but skin and bones (or a bag of bones)
• I’m feeling as low as a toad in a dry well
• I'm getting deaf as a post
• I'm soaking wet with sweat
• I'm  so skinny, if I stand sideways and stick out my tongue, I look like a zipper
• I puked my guts out
• Iron constitution
• I stuck my neck out and got my head chopped off
• It felt like an elephant was sitting on my chest
• I thought I was going to cough up a lung
• It was the worst headache of my life (classic for a rupturing aneurysm in the brain)
• It went in one ear and out the other
• I was bleeding like a stuck pig
• I was blind as a bat before I got glasses
• I was hotter than a firecracker
• I was so nauseated, I thought I was going to throw up my toenails
• I would have to feel beter to die
• I wouldn't do it for all the tea in China
• Kill with kindness
• Love to death
• Memory like an elephant
• More ailments than Carter has Little Liver Pills
• My mind is running a million miles an hour
• My mouth was dry enough to spit cotton (Marilyn Monroe line in the movie "Bus Stop")
• My throat feels like razor blades
• My heart was pounding harder than a jackhammer
• My heart was pounding out of my chest
• My mouth is as dry as the Sahara desert
• On a scale of 1 to 10, the pain was an eleven
• Put all your eggs in one basket
• Rare as hen's teeth
• Rules with an iron fist
• Runs faster than the speed of lightning
• Runs like the wind
• Saw it coming a mile away
• Scared to death
• Shoes are killing me
• Skinny as a toothpick
• Slept like a log
• Slept like a rock
• Smelled it a mile off
• Snores as loud as a freaight train
• So angry I could spit nails
• So embarassed I could die
• So excited, I could die !
• So thirsty I could spit feathers
• Starving to death (figuratively)
• Swallows their food whole
• Sweating like a farm animal
• Talks a mile a minute
• Tall as a beanpole
• That medicine cost an arm and a leg
• They drew so much blood they drained me dry
• "They tore out my heart and stomped that sucker flat"- book by Lewis Grizzard
• They walk slower than a great grandmother using a walker equipped with training wheels
• Thunderclap headache
• Twinkie overdose
• Up to one's eyeballs in work
• Went down with the ship
• You look as pale as a ghost and as white as a sheet