A cespitose or turfy plant has many stems from the same root, usually forming a close, thick carpet of matting.
He's a huckleberry above a persimmon, for sure, Katherine said, following her gaze. I hear tell he broke a lot of hearts in San Antone when he married you.
When the Republicans found out that Wilson's second bill was actually being credited to Al Blumenthal and Fred Ohrenstein, two Democrats the Republicans have a particular animosity toward, they, to put it mildly, threw a shit-fit.
Any man who succeeds in diverting the public taste, or in turning back a perverse stream which will flow in the direction of the ditch, leaves a mark, as it were, and cannot be overlooked by posterity.