Can "a thin strip of Texas leather" be used in several situation? Or are there any similar expressions?
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Heh, you're not the first to be confused; a search limited by phrase turns up mostly speakers of other languages looking for an explanation—Chinese, Slovenian, Persian...
It's not an established idiom, but simply a colorful metaphor, invented on the spot. The phrase is applied to a person, who is presumably thin and Texan. By likening him to leather, the speaker also implies that he has other leather-like qualities—tough, strong, resilient. In context, saying that they didn't expect him to like candlesticks, it also implies that the sort of leather the speaker is thinking of is not the expensive or luxurious leather of kid gloves or designer clothes, but a practical, work-ready, unglamorous "strip of leather."