White-livered, like lily-livered, can mean cowardly or timid. Cree, whose grandmother is from Mississippi, heard a different Southern folk meaning: a person with a white liver, or white spots on the liver, was thought to have an insatiable sexual...
hard dog to keep on the porch n.— «The second…has to do with Clinton’s sexual appetite.…The Governor was, in the words of a local saying, a hard dog to keep on the porch.» —“Bill Clinton’s Presidency” by...