Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This meant to make use of your credit. You're running a line of credit based on your "face" or your personality.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This meant to run away or to abscond. A brave cowboy would never mizzle.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This meant on the run from the law. The image is of dodging the lawmen.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This meant to press with jokes, sarcasm and ridicule. To get the run upon someone is to make him the butt of the jokes.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! To give leg bail is to run away. You're bailing out of there.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This was a funny euphemism for getting shot. The pill was the bullet.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This meant hard-pressed, in a difficulty or short of cash. Nobody likes being hard run.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This meant to go or run away. The image is of someone paddling a boat quickly.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This meant to run very fast. You're "licking" the ground with your feet.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This one plays on the fact that your shins are on your lower legs. If you shin out, you run away.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! It means to move or run away quickly. It's another made-up word.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This was a fun way to describe being on the run from the law. You'd be hiding out in the trees.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This one meant to run, to move off. It's another made-up word.