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• Ugly as a stick.

If someone is as ugly as a stick, they are very ugly indeed.
• Uncle sam.

Uncle sam is the government of the USA.
• Under the wire.

If a person does something under the wire, they do it at the last possible moment.
• Until the last dog is shot.
It means until the very last possible moment or until very possibility is exausted: You boys always stay until the

last dog is shot I will stay until the last dog is shot to complete this project by deadline (Expression my mom who
was born in 1917 in Wisconson always used.)

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