you bet

(the form you betcha is connected with rural image) certainly

Will there be challenges?, You bet. When will things improve?, Who knows?

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pie

an easy task, an easy job

For me, washing clothes is pie.

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small talk

idle, relaxed conversation

This is no time for small talk. We have get the ingredients quickly.

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water rat

a ruffian who who can be seen around the waterfront

If you hang around with that water rat too much and you'll wind up in jail with him.

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rain or shine

regardless of circumstances

You will find them in the hills rain or shine.

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run interference

to provide justification, protection, etc.

The older girl ran interference for their daughter while she set up the prank on their back porch. (example of run interference)

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in high cotton

well off, especially in terms of happiness or wealth(from the notion of a well developed high cotton crop that one would not need to bend over to pick, used in the Southern U.S. since the 1920)

He was in high cotton by the time he retired.

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