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! 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 was a funny euphemism for getting shot. The pill was the bullet.
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 meant hard-pressed, in a difficulty or short of cash. Nobody likes being hard run.
The slang term for a cowboy is "HICK"
Not cowboy slang. Overalls are another name for work pants.
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! 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.
'Cracklings' are the remains of a fire or cinders.
A horse is a "hay burner".