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smells like a wet towel 

an idiomatic phrase insinuating that the subject has some quality that is not appealing to the senses; not to be construed literally
That bar smells like a wet towel.
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Bent like a shrimp

A Cajun term for being so inebriated that you’re slouched over like a shrimp 🍤
When someone asks you “how drunk are you?”, your reply would be “ma’am I’m bent like a shrimp
Bent like a shrimp by Gymrat48 February 22, 2020

walking like weinstein 

The gait employed by a person who has shit their pants...or just about to
Jesu Christ, that curry had me walking like Weinstein

working like a dog 

Sacked out on the sofa all day.
"Man, I've been working like a dog", he muttered into the phone, his feet up, eyes on the game, the bag of Doritos on his chest almost empty. There must have been a time, long ago, he imagined, when dogs spent their lives herding cattle from sunrise to sunset, but any actual 21st century dog he knew was lazier than The Dude.

Make Like Judas

Betray someone. Sell them out. Stab them in the back. Pull a Julius Caesar on them. According to the bible, Judas was one of the twelve disciples and was the one who sold Jesus out to the Romans.
I had a feeling someone would Make Like Judas when they saw us walk into the bank with ski masks on our faces and cloth bags in our hands. Come here, you tattletale cocksucker!

seems like 

...comes across to this uneducated individual, due to first-hand experience from their 110% urban street life, like...
Seems like Sammy's Italian deli, several blocks down, is closed, even though it's Thursday afternoon. Can't quite make it out from this here 'partment. 'S rainin' cats 'n dogs. Don't got no inernet, m'phone's dead, powr's out (@ least on my block), so i can't pull up no day'is number, don't got no paper wit no coupons, dunno Sam's address, 'n don't got nobody comin in or out willin'a search 'im on dey 'is phone.