Bottoms up! and Here's looking at you.;
an expression said as a toast when people are drinking together. (Alludes to the bottoms of the drinking glasses.)
It's not an idiom, it's a simile. Someone is uglier than a fence used to stop mud from flowing across a field.
It's not an idiom because you can figure it out. It's a sarcastic way of saying something is not clear - it's as dark as mud.
Mud Phobia is the phobia (fear) of mud. Its called mysophobia, myso meaning mud and phobia meaning fear.
No because it means exactly what it seems to mean. "Caked" means coated or layered, so something is coated or layered in mud.
the meaning of words are accurate, to be sunk in mud, means that X is sunk in mud if X is sunk in mud, and Y is X then Y is also sunk in mud
This isn't an idiom because you can figure out what it means without someone telling you. When you see "AS ____ AS _____" you're looking at A Simile - a type of comparison. They're comparing someone's happiness to the happiness of a pig wallowing around in the mud.
In the 16th Century the word 'mud' was used to describe anything that was worthless and was linked with other English phrases such as 'dragged through the mud - mud in your eye. In the 19th century more phrases came into being, such as 'as thick as mud - as rich as mud - as fat as mud'. It was only a matter of time before the word was used in connection with someone's name. Thus an insult came into being as 'your name is mud' meaning you are unpopular.
Yes
In the Bible story where Jesus heals a blind man by putting mud in his eye and his sight is miraculously restored (Mark 8)
The origin of the idiom "hog heaven" is based on the happiness pigs experience when they roll in the mud.
Mud colored brown
A doctor named Mud gave medical assistance to john Wilkes booth, not knowing how he was injured, after the assassination of President A. Lincoln. when this was discovered, Dr. mud was sought out, through sheer hate, and hanged. hence the expression - your name is mud ( you're going down )