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13 Southern Sayings the Rest of America Won't Understand
Language discrepancies naturally arise in different geographic regions, like the raging pop vs. soda debate, but the South undoubtedly takes the cake.
Conversations south of the Mason-Dixon line will befuddle anyone not born there.
We chose 13 of the most ridiculous Southern sayings — and tried to explain them.
1. “We’re living in high cotton.”
Cotton has long been a key crop to the South’s economy, so every harvest farmers pray for tall bushes loaded with white fluffy balls in their fields. Tall cotton bushes are easier to pick and yield higher returns. If you’re living “in high cotton,” it means you’re feeling particularly successful or wealthy.
2. “She was madder than a wet hen.”
Hens sometimes enter a phase of “broodiness” — they’ll stop at nothing to incubate their eggs and get agitated when farmers try to collect them. Farmers used to dunk hens in cold water to “break” their broodiness.
You don’t want to be around a hormonal hen after she’s had an ice bath.
3. “He could eat corn through a picket fence.”
This describes someone with an unfortunate set of buck teeth. They tend to stick up and outward, like a horse’s teeth. Imagine a horse eating a carrot, and you’ll get the picture.
4. “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.”
A pig’s ear may look soft, pink, and shiny, but you’re not fooling anyone by calling it your new Marc Jacobs bag. A Southerner might say this about her redneck cousin who likes to decorate his house with deer antlers.
5. “You look rode hard and put up wet.”
No, this isn’t Southern sexual innuendo. The phrase refers to a key step in horse grooming — when a horse runs fast, it works up a sweat, especially under the saddle. A good rider knows to walk the horse around so it can dry off before going back to the stable. A horse will look sick and tired if you forget this step, much like a person who misses sleep or drinks too much.
6. “He’s as drunk as Cooter Brown.”
Cooter Brown is an infamous character in Southern lore. Legend tells that he lived on the Mason-Dixon line — the border between the North and South — during the Civil War. To avoid the draft on either side, Cooter decided to stay drunk throughout the entire war, making him ineligible for battle.
Inebriated Southerners have measured their drunkenness by him ever since.
7. “She’s as happy as a dead pig in the sunshine.”
When a pig dies, presumably in a sty outside, the sun dries out its skin. This effect pulls the pig’s lips back to reveal a toothy “grin,” making it look happy even though it’s dead. This phrase describes a person who’s blissfully ignorant of reality.
8. “She’s got more nerve than Carter’s got Liver Pills.”
Carters Products started as a pill-peddling company in the latter part of the 19th century. Specifically, Carters repped its “Little Liver Pills” so hard a Southern saying spawned from the omnipresent advertisements.
Alas, the Federal Trade Commission forced the drug-group to drop the “liver” portion of the ad, claiming it was deceptive. Carter’s “Little Liver Pills” became Carter’s “Little Pills” in 1951, but the South doesn’t really pay attention to history. The phrase stuck.
9. “I’m finer than frog hair split four ways.”
Southerners mostly use this phrase to answer, “How are you?” Even those below the Mason-Dixon know frogs don’t have hair, and the irony means to highlight just how dandy you feel.
The phrase reportedly originated in C. Davis’ “Diary of 1865.”
10. “He thinks the sun comes up just to hear him crow.”
On farms (not just in the South) roosters usually crow when the sun rises. Their vociferous habit wakes up the house, signaling time to work.
An extremely cocky rooster might think the sun rises simply because he crows. Similarly, an extremely cocky man might think the same when he speaks — and also that everyone should listen to him.
11. “That’s about as useful as tits on a bull.”
Only female dairy cows produce milk. Male cows are called bulls. And even if you could “milk anything with nipples,” bulls tend to be rather ornery. Good luck with that.
12. “That thing is all catawampus.”
Catawampus adj: askew, awry, cater-cornered.
Lexicographers don’t really know how it evolved, though. They speculate it’s a colloquial perversion of “cater-corner.” Variations include: catawampous, cattywampus, catty wonkus. The South isn’t really big on details.
13. “He’s got enough money to burn a wet mule.”
In 1929, then-Governor of Louisiana Huey Long, nicknamed “The Kingfish,” tried to enact a five-cent tax on each barrel of refined oil to fund welfare programs. Naturally, Standard Oil threw a hissy fit and tried to impeach him on some fairly erroneous charges (including attending a drunken party with a stripper).
But Long, a good ole’ boy, fought back. He reportedly said the company had offered legislators as much as $25,000 for their votes to kick him out of office — what he called “enough money to burn a wet mule.”
We Northerners may not know what that means, but at least we know where it comes from.
Bonus: Bless Your Heart
Almost everyone knows Southern women drop this phrase constantly. But it might not mean what you think it means.
In reality, the phrase has little to do with religion and more to do with a passive-aggressive way to call you an idiot. Depending on your inflection, saying “bless your heart” can sting worse than any insult.
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Paul Mayhan
May 21, 2014 at 8:24 am
Hardly anybody in the South says “bless your heart” anymore. Jeff Foxworthy ruined it for everybody by making a big joke out of it. “Sweet” has arisen as a suitable substitute though as in “isn’t that sweet?” when someone says or does something in a vain attempt to be endearing or impressive. It is also frequently said about mentally challenged children or suitors who are trying too hard.
Angel Bradley
May 21, 2014 at 2:47 pm
Try explaining why someone doesn’t know “sheep sh*t from cotton seed.” Or better yet, just tell them and DON’T explain it. 🙂
Judy Johnson
May 21, 2014 at 8:03 pm
The difference in a yankee and a damn yankee: A yankee visits the south; a damn yankee moves to the south.
Dr. Todd Collier
May 22, 2014 at 7:49 am
Actually it’s “useless as tits on a boar hog.” Same meaning but even more “out there.” Also “rare as hen’s teeth” is a big one. And as far as them being “ridiculous” allow me to respond with a ridiculous Yankee phrase “check your … whatever.” If you are fortunate enough to be Southern these phrases are far more expressive and exact than the queen’s English.
CJtheRebel
May 22, 2014 at 7:57 am
My interpretation is that a Yankee is someone from the north but a damn Yankee is someone from the north who comes to the South to tell us all how terrible we are.
Tara Martin Morrison
May 22, 2014 at 8:38 am
My favorite “Uglier than homemade sin”
Kim Kelly Lovorn
May 22, 2014 at 2:39 pm
They left out several……big as a country mile and over yonder are a couple!!!
ihatedavidjay
May 22, 2014 at 3:43 pm
How about … Looks Like a Monkey “F*ing” a football.
Cherry Bass
May 22, 2014 at 7:34 pm
We in the south happen to like our sayings. Come on down and visit. Sat a spell and see some of our southern hospitality.
Waltsdizzyworld
May 22, 2014 at 10:24 pm
A fucking yankee is one who moves to florida.
Waltsdizzyworld
May 22, 2014 at 10:28 pm
Its still a good saying when a blonde tries to convince you of something. I told a fetching young lass at an auto auction that there was so much activity that I thought their website might crash as it was slowing. She told me her boss had the key to the closet where you turn up the bandwidth and she’d tell him to crank it up. I said to her; “well Bless Your Heart”. I wonder how many times she’s been to the closet with her boss to get her bandwidth turned up?
Marlo Miller Ricciardi
May 22, 2014 at 11:44 pm
Isn’t that special.
Marlo Miller Ricciardi
May 22, 2014 at 11:44 pm
Uglier than a mud fence.
Marlo Miller Ricciardi
May 22, 2014 at 11:45 pm
I’m 65 and have never heard that one.
D_L_L_D
May 23, 2014 at 12:19 am
“(So-and-so’s) got more excuses than Carter’s got little green pills.” My mother says this all the time. My family be country… Okies from Muskogee, y’all.
Paul Mayhan
May 23, 2014 at 6:25 am
You could have been more with the times by saying, “Well aren’t you sweet!”
Paul Mayhan
May 23, 2014 at 6:26 am
There are lots of good ones for ugly:
Looks like she was beat with an ugly stick
Climbed an ugly tree and hit every limb on the way down
Looks like they set her face on fire and beat it out with a logging chain
Paul Mayhan
May 23, 2014 at 6:29 am
A guy I used to work for used to say “I could piss over a ten rail fence backwards.”
And there is the ubiquitous “S” word, the only dirty word that a proper Southern lady is allowed use. My grandmother would bust out “S… fire” at least 10 times a day. Or if you tried to do something wrong but hurt yourself in the process, she’d say, “You S… and fell backward in it, didn’t you?”
JoeDrager
May 23, 2014 at 9:21 am
Never heard of #13.
Tara Martin Morrison
May 23, 2014 at 9:43 am
One of my dear friend says “Bless it” it cracks me up every time.
momazilla
May 23, 2014 at 10:51 am
The mark of a true southern lady: She can tell you to “go to Hell” in such a sweet way, that you look forward to the trip.
crawl312
May 23, 2014 at 12:28 pm
Fixin’ to i.e. I am fixin’ to go to the store. We stopped at the fillin” station to get gas. Ooh wee! She would scare the buzzards off a gut wagon. Shoot fire fuzzy.
How’s your mama and them? Hey, y’all. We never said we’re living in high cotton…it was, “We’re in high cotton, now.” After a big meal, my grandmother would say that she was full as a tick. Don’t get your dander up. Don’t bust a gut. Flatter than a pancake. That dog won’t hunt. I could go on, but I’m gettin’ full of myself so i won’t.
Maddex
May 23, 2014 at 2:37 pm
Thank you for correcting this Dr. Collier. If you’re going to use our sayings Yankees, use them right.
Lee Newton
May 23, 2014 at 2:52 pm
Have Mercy
Isaac Wyant
May 23, 2014 at 3:11 pm
Shoot fire and save the matches, for cryin’ out loud and soda pop, or even the drawn out ‘Excuse Me?’. Or how about having too many irons in the fire, It’s like beatin’ a dead horse, arguing with a fence post.
Dean Colding
May 23, 2014 at 4:08 pm
And a “Clean” version would be “Useless as Hip Pockets on a Hog”. I mean, really? What’s a hog gonna do with Hip Pockets?
Dr. Todd Collier
May 23, 2014 at 4:55 pm
Sorry Dean. No intent to offend. In my extremely strict religious family the ‘t’ word wasn’t considered a bad one. By the same token we could say cr*p but not the ‘s’ word.
D P
May 23, 2014 at 5:16 pm
I have been to 42 states and lived in many of them. Of your listed things, 1-6 I heard all my life growing up in Ohio and Florida; they are not southern phrases, they are American coloquialisms. They are said all over the country. I have been living in Georgia for the last 12 years, and have never heard 9,10,11, or 13. Regarding passive-aggressive behavior in Southern women: I had never seen this before moving to the south. Where I had grown up, in Ohio, California, and Florida, people are pretty straight-forward or blatantly evasive. Southern women have mastered the art of the veiled insult. I had to live here for a few years before I understood that. “That’s interesting,” “You look good in everything,” and “Aren’t you smart!” are all insults. In the north, people who don’t like you will frown and avert their eyes. In the south, they smile big fake smiles and call you “sweetie” or “sugar” rather like what you’d see from a flight attendant (no offense to flight attendants).
D P
May 23, 2014 at 5:18 pm
A yankee visits the south, a damn yankee has enough money to buy the damn south.
A Georgia girl
May 23, 2014 at 6:39 pm
Very condescending piece. The sayings are spot on, not ridiculous. And Southerners pay as much attention to history as anyone.
Sherry Cushing Davis
May 23, 2014 at 11:02 pm
How about “she’s so ugly she’ll make a train take a dirt road”! LOL
Philip Crabtree
May 24, 2014 at 12:05 am
Don’t let out all the bought air!
Chandra Leigh West Loomis
May 24, 2014 at 12:06 am
I don’t know what part of the south you’re speaking of, but “bless your heart” is still very heavily used phrase not only here in Little Rock, Arkansas, but in all of the deep south.
There are some instances where that phrase is used as a term of endearment &/or as a show of sympathy and concern when the speaker simply doesn’t know what else to say – most often when speaking of a very young child or an elderly person with severe and life-threatening medical issues and poor or no chance of recovery.
Most of the time, it is nothing more than a polite way to say “Oh my god, you’re so stupid…..”
Clark Bunch
May 24, 2014 at 8:30 am
“Bless your heart” is like a free pass to say anything else you wish. I’ve heard stories about ladies prayer groups; “My next door neighbor, bless her heart, is dumb as a brick.” “My niece, bless her heart, puts on makeup like a $5 whore.”
I saw a whole book of Southern expressions and idioms, titled of course “The Hell You Say.”
Dallas McCoy
May 24, 2014 at 8:30 am
Tits on a boar hog is not unclean and that is the expression.
Dallas McCoy
May 24, 2014 at 8:33 am
I always thought that was “Uglier than home made soap”
Dallas McCoy
May 24, 2014 at 8:35 am
Very good, Crawl1312
Erin
May 24, 2014 at 8:41 am
My dad always said, “That ain’t worth two dead flies.”
BlueeyedSara
May 24, 2014 at 9:40 am
You’re absolutely right. I hear that phrase regularly, both sarcastically and sympathetically, and have heard it all over the south. Thankfully, neither iteration has been directed to me personally!
Dallas McCoy
May 24, 2014 at 11:37 am
I heard it as “Shit fire and save matches”.
jea
May 24, 2014 at 11:46 am
Foxworthy stole it from Brother Dave Gardner.
M White
May 24, 2014 at 3:45 pm
“The Devil’s beatin’ his wife with a fryin’ pan.” – Known as “sunshowers” or “rainshine” in other parts of the country, this is the phrase that Southerners use to describe the weather phenomenon of rain falling under mostly sunny skies.
Jim B
May 24, 2014 at 3:49 pm
Busier than a cat in a litter box.
Jim B
May 24, 2014 at 3:55 pm
How about, “Cryin’ like a rat eatin’ red onions”, like Darryl Waltrip used to do every time someone paid him back for HIS racin’ infractions.
Traci R.
May 24, 2014 at 4:13 pm
Uglier than sin on Sunday.
Traci R.
May 24, 2014 at 4:17 pm
Yep. Me too. I hear it from my folks in Arkansas and here in NC too.
emily
May 24, 2014 at 4:30 pm
Are you sure paul? I live in Alabama and work at a hospital. I hear “bless your heart” or better yet “bless your bones” more times than I could count!
disqus_83Ljjkvanj
May 24, 2014 at 9:24 pm
I’ve always heard “useless as tits on a bull” or “useless as tits on a goldfish”. Never heard it with the boar hog ending.
Teach0322
May 24, 2014 at 10:06 pm
I’m from Wisconsin and grew up hearing six of these phrases. These are not just southern.
dave
May 24, 2014 at 10:29 pm
“burning a wet mule” refers to when the Mississippi River used to flood, and kill livestock. They used to require farmers to burn these animals to prevent the spread of disease. Burning wet animals completely down was expensive, because the farmers would have to purchase kerosene/oil or whatever to burn the animals. thus the term was coined.
dave
May 24, 2014 at 10:30 pm
also you forgot “bless your heart!” – intended to sound to the yankee ear as a sign of sympathy, but really it’s a southerner’s way of telling you that you’re stupid
Michael Hardy
May 25, 2014 at 12:27 am
The Mason-Dixon line is the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland. Both of those states remained within the Union. To suggest that the Mason-Dixon line was the boundary between Union and Confederate states is confused at best.
A F
May 25, 2014 at 12:31 am
Here is another southern insult for ya DP…”How nice” said with a smile and sweet southern drawl…it means “F___k you”!
Natasha Hubbard
May 25, 2014 at 1:05 am
It’s not “living” in high cotton…IJS
Bethany Kennedy
May 25, 2014 at 3:02 am
Bless your heart does not mean you’re an idiot, you ignorant Yankee! It is an expression of sympathy. Yes sometimes the reason you’re getting sympathy is because you made a foolish mistake. However, most the time it’s because you’re ill or injured. I don’t know why you can’t figure out what enough money to burn a wet mule means. Obviously it takes a hot fire to burn a wet mule so you needed a lot of oil which was taxed so that took a lot of money. What the hell to you mean “Even those below the Mason Dixon line know” You think you’re smarter because you live above it.
Melissa
May 25, 2014 at 4:24 am
We are always “fixin'” to do something – like go to the store and get a coke and a coke isnt always a coke. It could be a Mountain Dew, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, etc….
Peanuts in an RC Cola and a moon pie is another southern thing we do here too.
garygardner
May 25, 2014 at 7:44 am
Ugly as farting in church!
Kevin Farthing
May 25, 2014 at 9:28 am
This article is condescending, racist, and filled with snide comments “even people in the south know a frog does not have hair” The author is attempting to belittle southerners and only reveals his ignorrance. How about a follow up article on how northerners destroy the English language by inserting letters in words that are not there because they obviously are too uneducated to read …. What the hell is a samrich??? An ideal??? A caaaa??? Simply prejudiced article that is unacceptable journalism.
Bobby Duggar
May 25, 2014 at 9:36 am
My mom used to say more nerve than Carter got peanuts.
Kim
May 25, 2014 at 9:52 am
I’m from Georgia, I’m a 50 year old woman, and I nor any of my friends would ever treat anyone this way. I don’t know what kind of evil b*itches you are consorting with but that is not usual “Southern” behavior. Yes, Southerners are more likely to act “nice” instead of overtly shunning you if they don’t like you but that’s because we were taught to not be rude. I’m cordial but I’m not going to be two-faced, and I’ve taught my daughter the same. And I have never, ever used “Bless your heart” as in insult to someone’s face. That is disgusting and I think that is almost taking on urban legend quality because I read that frequently, as I don’t know anyone who would say it to anyone insincerely. You might see someone with a bathing suit on at Walmart and say “Bless her heart” to your friend but you’d never day it as a veiled insult, nor anything else mentioned above, to anyone’s face. Unless you’re just a catty a-hole.
Gstephens
May 25, 2014 at 12:10 pm
After sixty-four years of mostly southern living, I have to agree with Todd. I have only heard the phrase reference a boar hog.
There are two expressions that I have heard thousands of times that I would add: 1) usually used to respond to”How are you today?–Fair to middlin’ (a reference to average cotton prices; and 2) The other expression I still hear on a near daily basis is “That’s gonna be a hard row to hoe.” This is an expression referencing hoeing (choppin’) cotton to any difficult task at hand.
Gstephens
May 25, 2014 at 12:13 pm
But, finds it is not for sale.
Gstephens
May 25, 2014 at 12:34 pm
Another one comes to mind that I understood perfectly in the 1950’s in Southeast Arkansas. It was “Let’s go get a coke.” The reply was usually “What kind you gonna get?” Coke was often the generic reference for any carbonated bottled drink. I also might point out that there were more Grapette signs throughout the South than Coca Cola signs in the 1950’s.
Dean Colding
May 25, 2014 at 12:49 pm
No offense taken at all Doc. Just offered it for those that could be offended. guess I was trying to be to PC which I normally don’t do.
Dean Colding
May 25, 2014 at 12:50 pm
Dallas, Bless your heart 🙂
Greg Van Gieson
May 25, 2014 at 1:04 pm
Has anyone heard “don’t teach your grandmother how to milk ducks?” My dad and older members of his family use this on a regular basis, and it appears to mean “don’t correct someone who knows what they’re doing when you ain’t got a clue.” I’ve never heard anyone else say it though.
John Chapin
May 25, 2014 at 2:28 pm
Most of these are not southern, they are just country. I grew up in Ohio and my Grandpa said these all the time and he grew up in Illinois
Donna Denton
May 25, 2014 at 2:33 pm
SOUTHERN-By the Grace of God!my grandmother always said that and I agree.
Debra S.
May 25, 2014 at 4:44 pm
She looks just like her mama…bless her heart.
differenttake
May 25, 2014 at 4:53 pm
There are only a couple of phrases here that are distinctly southern. The rest are common throughout the country. Pretty much a 15 second article packed into 3 minutes.
Joshua Gilpin
May 25, 2014 at 5:19 pm
The Mason-Dixon line was not the border between the North and South during the civil war. Read a history book or do a simple Google search.
Otha Bill Milligan
May 25, 2014 at 6:21 pm
My Paw paw used to say “They are crappin in high cotton and wiping their butts on the tops.
remom09
May 25, 2014 at 7:14 pm
Bless your heart is a duality. Depending on how you know the women and what the situation is. Many Yanks tend to forget that we do have genuine hospitality.
TAB
May 25, 2014 at 8:09 pm
Writing from Texas. I have never heard #9. I never knew why the chicken was wet. Which seems odd considering I was raised around chickens. “Bless your heart is not always passive aggressive it is often meant as compassionate. As the writer says it’s all in the tone. “Bless her Heart” a free pass to gossip. You can say anything you want about someone behind her back so long as you wrap it up with a concerned expression and a “bless her heart”. A good gentle head shake completes the package.
TAB
May 25, 2014 at 8:18 pm
I think it is sub- regional the south is a big place. Growing up in East and west Texas I heard bull but when I traveled to some other parts of the South I have heard “boar hog”. I would assume it has to do with prominent livestock historically in the region.
TAB
May 25, 2014 at 8:34 pm
Uneducated, you mean, I love a how piece intended to show how dumb we are is full of historical inaccuracies.
TAB
May 25, 2014 at 8:35 pm
I have heard many people talk about that one but never actually heard anyone use it.
alnga
May 25, 2014 at 9:07 pm
Most Yankees of us use these Southern phrases because we lack the heritage that allows for us to do so.
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alnga
May 25, 2014 at 9:10 pm
Now that was properly used.
TAB
May 25, 2014 at 10:20 pm
One that is in the piece and two that is a piece of crap. Yes it has been used as a passive aggressive slight because no one is perfect but most often it is intended in compassion.
TAB
May 25, 2014 at 10:24 pm
My MawMa used that one. For you Yankees who apparently need a translator to figure out what is quiet logical, that one refers to closing the door to preserve air conditioning.
Tammy Cox Droll
May 25, 2014 at 11:06 pm
I am 46 years old and I was born and raised south of the mason dixie line(20 minutes west of Atlanta, GA) and I have only heard of two of these sayings.
emtfirebb446
May 26, 2014 at 12:00 am
My family is from Arkansas and Oklahoma, and my wife is from Texas. She is always asking me to get her a coke, and my reply is always “what kind”? And all Medicine is aspirin to her.
emtfirebb446
May 26, 2014 at 12:02 am
tits, teets, tomato, toemater,
emtfirebb446
May 26, 2014 at 12:13 am
My grandma from Arkansas used to say “boy quit messin with that turtle, if it bites you it won’t let go till it thunders”, and “get that cat outside, it’ll take the babie’s breath away”. You always put your groceries in a “poke”. Then there is such a thing as a thingamajig, and I’ll get a roundtooit. She is just as sweet as pie. Thats worse than a poke in the eye with a sharpstick (with emphasis on the word sharp). Shut the door you wern’t born in a barn and I also heard “go get me a switch” quite a bit.
emtfirebb446
May 26, 2014 at 12:45 am
My grandma used to say “boy quit messin with
that turtle, if it bites you it won’t let go till it thunders”, and “get
that cat outside, it’ll take the babie’s breath away”. Then there is
when you always put your groceries in a “poke” (paper
bag). Then there is such a thing as a thingamajig, lollygaggin and
jabberin, punkin, surgar, or sugarpie (a name of endearment), fiddlin with things, a yeller
backed coward, “cotton picken” (as in it you ain’t going to do a cotton
picken thing) and “when I get a roundtoit”. “She is just as sweet as
pie” or sugar. “Thats worse than a poke in the eye with a sharpstick”
(with emphasis on the word sharp) and “bless their heart”. “Shut the
door you wern’t born in a barn” and I also heard “go get me a switch”
and “your going to get a whoopin” quite a bit. There is just too many to
list.
crawl312
May 26, 2014 at 7:58 am
good ones; I still use both
Patricia G Sineath
May 26, 2014 at 8:24 am
Get your cotton pickin’ hands off_____.
disqus_83Ljjkvanj
May 26, 2014 at 8:30 am
Meeeeow. That is the expression you know. As had been stated, other folks use other endings – bull, goldfish, etc. Didn’t make one more right than another…
Karen Cunningham Bartlett
May 26, 2014 at 8:37 am
My ex mother in law always used the phrases; That ain’t worth pickin up in the road and That didn’t fill my hollow tooth. I was around her so much it seems normal to say these.
Lisa
May 26, 2014 at 8:38 am
My husband is from Virginia and I’m originally from Georgia. I now reside in North Carolina. I’m so proud of being a Southerner. We love our traditions, sayings and family. We don’t hide our crazy relatives, we parade them right on the front porch. There is no better place in the country than the South. If it wasn’t so great, we wouldn’t have so many Northerners moving down here. The ones still up North really don’t know what they’re missing, ” Bless their hearts”.
Marty
May 26, 2014 at 8:42 am
That’s interesting as I also grew up in East Texas and heard boar hog from my dad who also grew up there. A lot of it is familial I think. His dad grew up in Arkansas and mom in Louisiana where a boar hog would be more prevalent.
Michael Dalton
May 26, 2014 at 9:17 am
A damn yankee visits the South and then stays. Ugh.
David Marshall
May 26, 2014 at 9:43 am
And you have “Halfbackers”, Yankees that move to Florida, then move halfway back. Almost as bad as damn Yankees. Lol
Jennie Gillihan
May 26, 2014 at 9:46 am
You don’t know s**t from shinola…slicker than owl s**t on linoleum…how’s mama ‘nem? More than one way to skin a cat…I don’t know him from Dick’s hatband…deader than a door nail…these are just some of the ones I grew up with here in midwest GA.
L Paul Herring Jr
May 26, 2014 at 9:54 am
Too much sugar for a dime.
emtfirebb446
May 26, 2014 at 9:59 am
“Bless your heart Kim”, I’m quite sure you would never be catty, it is allways best to ensure you say these things in an un-cordial way behind their back and not to their face. I have lots of southern roots and I’m quite sure that some of these comments offended you. My Grandma was from the deep south and “heaven forbid” if a person implied she acted with devious behavior even tho she definitely could be what people perceived as a catty a-hole for which I love her for it as she never took no crap from no one and would proudly hold her head high, smile and say something so sweet which at times caused quite a sting.
MattMatt
May 26, 2014 at 10:03 am
I’m about as Southern as they come so I’ll share a couple more phrases/words with you. One is a bit on the R-rated side, but not vulgar. “Shit fire in a hurricane” is a phrase often used to express immense surprise. Depending on how you say it, it can be a good news or bad news. We Southerners will also often say “rurnt” as in “The milk is rurnt.” The closest justification is that “rurnt” is to “ruined” as “spoilt” is to “spoiled.”
MDLee5555
May 26, 2014 at 10:16 am
Bless your heart is not JUST a passive aggressive insult – Yankees always get this wrong! It all depends on your tone; it can mean go to hell, you’re an idiot, you’re unfortunate looking (or dressed), etc. OR it can be an exclamation of genuine distress and empathy.
Denise Andrews Luellen Wilkin
May 26, 2014 at 10:54 am
Always heard a southerner’s worst fear was seeing a Yankee pulling a U Haul. LOL
Denise Andrews Luellen Wilkin
May 26, 2014 at 10:55 am
Or “her face would draw blister on a brick wall.”
Tim H.
May 26, 2014 at 11:29 am
A place to keep his bacon?
MikeSchinkel
May 26, 2014 at 12:59 pm
You forgot “It’s comin’ up a cloud!” 🙂
MikeSchinkel
May 26, 2014 at 1:08 pm
“Looks like she was beat with an ugly stick”
See the movie “Freeway” to watch Reese Witherspoon’s outrageous character call Keifer Sutherland’s predator character when she seems in a wheelchair after she had beaten the crap out of him with his own gun. Priceless!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUo7mjW2D3M
Wayne Foster
May 26, 2014 at 2:27 pm
The phrase is “shittin in high cotton “…never heard livin in high cotton…from arkansas!
latexas
May 26, 2014 at 4:18 pm
We always said “slicker n goose sh*t”. Northeast LA.
Ju
May 26, 2014 at 4:26 pm
A Texas thing is, “fixin’ to.” As in I’m fixin’ to go to the H-E-B (grocery chain in south east Texas).
latexas
May 26, 2014 at 4:28 pm
I still say that! Haha
Syler Womack
May 26, 2014 at 4:56 pm
I b’lieve a yankee wrote this. What do you mean “The South doesn’t pay attention to history”? We’re the only ones who remember it the way it happened. Also, Rode Hard and Put Up Wet refers to the fact that if you don’t walk a horse down after a taxing physical effort, he can get road foundered. Laminitis in any form, with any cause, is not something you want to mess with. A horse or person who has been rode hard and put up wet looks sick indeed.
Syler Womack
May 26, 2014 at 5:01 pm
We were allowed “hell”, “damn” and “son-of-a-bitch” strictly in those forms—but nothing else. “crap” and “tits” would get you the stink eye. Anything else would get you big ol’ welts on your hiney…
Syler Womack
May 26, 2014 at 5:03 pm
I don’t blame them for wanting to move here, but I don’t want to spend the rest of my life hearing about how much better things were “up north”…
Syler Womack
May 26, 2014 at 5:04 pm
Well, you can put lipstick on a pig, but…
Eva
May 26, 2014 at 5:19 pm
A dang yankee must have wrote this-they Got most all of it wrong.. G’s ….. come on down an sat a spell and we will teach you these proper sayings.
TJ Singleton
May 26, 2014 at 5:27 pm
Although “Bless his/her/your heart” is not always an insult. It can be quite sincere. It’s been turned into an insult by cutesy lists like this.
Jason Bowen
May 26, 2014 at 5:37 pm
Well hell, come on down and set a spell with us. Y’all might just want to move here…
James A. Lonon
May 26, 2014 at 5:52 pm
We still call Cokes “Dopes” I guess from when they contained cocaine?
If two people say the same thing at the same time, the first one to say Dope, dope owe me a Coke, Gets a free coke at the others expense.
Brian Peabody
May 26, 2014 at 7:44 pm
and, should said Yankee complain, the appropriate Southern reply has been “Delta is ready when you are.”
Dianna Fowler
May 26, 2014 at 7:49 pm
I was a child in the 60s in Texas and “soda water” was the term for a soft drink. If you wanted a Coke you asked for a Coke.
Syler Womack
May 26, 2014 at 8:17 pm
Well, aren’t you precious?
Kevin Massey
May 26, 2014 at 8:17 pm
Please stop giving out invites like that, we have enough YANKS down here as it is.
Jason Bowen
May 26, 2014 at 8:56 pm
Lol! Just as long as they leave their politics behind, maybe it will be OK. Start trying to mess with our gun rights or anything else messing with our freedom they can GTFO.
Paul Mayhan
May 26, 2014 at 11:29 pm
So ugly her mom had to tie a pork chop around her neck to get the dog to play with her…
Used to go squirrel hunting without a gun… would just smile at them and ugly ’em to death. She had to quit though because she tore ’em up too bad.
Paul Mayhan
May 26, 2014 at 11:31 pm
I’m from North Mississippi, and the only people I hear say it now are old women. “Sweet” has replaced it for the younger crowd, at least there.
Guest
May 26, 2014 at 11:38 pm
Many Southern women actually have no idea how condescending they are being. They are so rooted in the arrogance of the South that they don’t even realize the inappropriateness of their thoughts. My mom called “being nice” which is the highest of all Southern social rules. Her efforts to be nice like a good Christian lady should turned out extremely condescending to people she thought of as beneath her. But of course, thinking of other human beings as beneath oneself isn’t a sin in the South, because arrogance is the bedrock upon which all Southern society is based. For a Southern woman to “be nice” to someone who’s acting like a goober is the ultimate act of Christian compassion, so that “bless your heart” or “aren’t you so sweet/smart/clever” is a genuine statement of superiority, not just a thinly veiled cut.
Paul Mayhan
May 26, 2014 at 11:40 pm
Many Southern women actually have no idea how condescending they are being. They are so rooted in the arrogance of the South that they don’t even realize the inappropriateness of their thoughts. My mom called it “being nice” which is the highest of all Southern social rules. Her efforts to be nice like a good Christian lady should turned out extremely condescending to people she thought of as beneath her. But of course, thinking of other human beings as beneath oneself isn’t a sin in the South, because arrogance is the bedrock upon which all Southern society is based. For a Southern woman to “be nice” to an inferior is the ultimate act of Christian compassion, so that “bless your heart” or “aren’t you so sweet/smart/clever” comes from a genuine feeling of superiority, not a thinly veiled dig at someone’s efforts.
Paul Mayhan
May 26, 2014 at 11:42 pm
“Bless your heart” is always a statement of compassion, but can be truly insulting when the compassion is misplaced. If you aren’t genuinely pathetic and you get your heart blessed, the person speaking has just declared their superiority to you.
Paul Mayhan
May 26, 2014 at 11:45 pm
My grandmother used to say “the hell you say.” She had this very sweet disposition and could then bust out some of the most offensive speech out of nowhere.
Paul Mayhan
May 26, 2014 at 11:49 pm
“Cotton pickin'” comes from the slavery days. A cotton picker was a black slave or after emancipation, a hired black worker. The occasional white person who got a job picking cotton was generally extremely low class, so in any event “cotton pickin'” was equivalent to worthless or detestable.
Paul Mayhan
May 26, 2014 at 11:52 pm
Busier than a one legged man in a butt kicking contest
more nervous than a cat in a room full of rocking chairs
more excited than a dog in a hubcap factory
One Mad Mama
May 27, 2014 at 7:03 am
My grandmother says, “Bless it all to Heaven and Hell!” when other people would be cursing.
Bless your heart is used when there’s nothing nice to say. Sometimes it’s replaced with sweet or peach, as in,”ain’t you just a peach?” Usually peach is used for when someone is being a jackass or worse.
There’s also: half a frog’s as hair from…, slicker than greased owl shit, out of pocket, colder than a well digger ass, barn sour mule, meaner than an old sow, higher than a cat’s back, they’re awful proud of (item) (used when something is over priced), saying someone is in a person’s hip pocket… I could go on but that’s probably plenty for the moment.
sargon1
May 27, 2014 at 7:13 am
I’ve lived all over the country and have always picked up the local expressions rather easily. Originally a Yank, I’ve been in the South for many many years and have added most of these expressions to my vocabulary as well. I have many friends down here who are Yankee transplants but they have spent the years resisting the South. When I use and phrase like “fixin’ to” or “they’re havin’ a high porch picnic,” my Yank friends will usually comment disparagingly about it. Northern arrogance, eh? If you’re a Yank living in the South, just go with it; the South is too big to resist.
Larry Ready
May 27, 2014 at 7:49 am
Per Lewis Grizzard
Lainey
May 27, 2014 at 8:48 am
When children exit the bus and pass gas while walking down the aisle, it’s called crop dusting.
Melanie Young
May 27, 2014 at 8:53 am
I always have heard it as “uglier than homemade sin.” I guess there must be store bought sin as well.
Melanie Young
May 27, 2014 at 8:54 am
I am in West Tennessee and I hear it all the time. Heck, I say it!
Melanie Young
May 27, 2014 at 8:57 am
I agree with you, Georgia girl. It makes us sound like we are uneducated idiots. I don’t know about you, but I am highly educated, relatively well-versed in history…and happily use these sayings because they are far more descriptive than anything I heard when I lived north of the Mason-Dixon. And lest anyone think I am being condescending of the wonderful people who live north of the Mason-Dixon, I am a “half-breed”…a Maine-born mother and a Tennessee-born father. I have lived in the South since 1974 and can’t imagine living anywhere else. And I am writing this from my mother’s homestead in northern Maine. I wonderful place to visit, but too COLD!
Melanie Young
May 27, 2014 at 9:01 am
“Bless your heart” can be used as a back-handed insult…but I agree with you, Bethany…in most cases it is an expression of sympathy.
Candice
May 27, 2014 at 10:00 am
I don’t know exactly where you’re from, but we use “tits on a bull” in south Alabama.
Abner
May 27, 2014 at 10:05 am
A damn yankee is one who won’t go home.
unemployed special education t
May 27, 2014 at 10:24 am
Some of us WANT to move down south because of your rights! Especially gun rights! Our kids, friends & other relatives have left for your rights but our aging parents who won’t move with us, who need daily care or just to be checked on are the reasons we’re still here. Taxes, crime, loss of jobs & job opportunities never mind liberal politicians including so called republicans all make it so hard to stay. But, family and honoring our parents are more honoring to the Lord. He’s still providing our needs.
Jana Vonn Hart
May 27, 2014 at 11:07 am
ain’t that the truth!!!
Jana Vonn Hart
May 27, 2014 at 11:08 am
and they all move to a place called Cary (just outside of Raleigh) Containment Area for Relocated Yankees.
Jana Vonn Hart
May 27, 2014 at 11:08 am
The expression I always hear is I-95 goes both ways. haha
I Hate Hollywood
May 27, 2014 at 11:33 am
Yes. I believe in OK we say it politely and sarcastically.
I Hate Hollywood
May 27, 2014 at 11:35 am
I say God Bless It! When I’m frustrated. I have no idea where that came from. What about your friend? In what context?
Jonnelle
May 27, 2014 at 11:37 am
It isn’t just a Texas thing. That is an acceptable verb tense in the South.
When I was in high school, I had a skating coach from Canada who would be furious that students would say they were “fixin’ to do that.”
“Are you or aren’t you?!”
“I’m fixin’ to.” and they would stare blankly because they couldn’t understand why she didn’t understand.
“Are you going to do what I’ve asked?”
“Yeah – I’m fixin’ to right after this thing.”
I Hate Hollywood
May 27, 2014 at 11:37 am
My father-in-law is from WI and he says that .
I Hate Hollywood
May 27, 2014 at 11:41 am
What about saying “Do what?” instead of “Excuse me?”. I used to say that all the time.
Paul Mayhan
May 27, 2014 at 12:15 pm
Sheep Sh*t was used for fertilizer for nearly everything, including cotton. So the expression means that you’re so stupid you’ll screw it up even though you have everything you need.
Jane martin
May 27, 2014 at 2:57 pm
I love the sound of a sweet Southren voice!
Kim D Perkins
May 27, 2014 at 3:43 pm
Im from SE Bama (ROLL TIDE) and theres an expression ive heard my whole life…”its been like that since buck was a calf and hes a full grown bull now” LOL. And ive also heard the boar hog ending. I was LOL at this. Ive used just about all of them
Kim D Perkins
May 27, 2014 at 3:45 pm
Oh yeah. They forgot a MAJOR one. We always ask hows your mama n them? And “if the Good Lords willing and the creek dont rise….”
Kim D Perkins
May 27, 2014 at 3:47 pm
Yeah fixin to is not just a texas thing lol
Kim D Perkins
May 27, 2014 at 3:54 pm
Youre right. I from the southeast corner of Bama and now live in oklahoma. STILL hear that and say it all the time
Kim D Perkins
May 27, 2014 at 3:58 pm
This was probably written by a damn yankee
MaryLu Duffy
May 27, 2014 at 4:02 pm
haha– in the Deep South along the coast, we remove the condiments from the tables in late Nov. when the Yankees arrive at the beach– I’ve seen more than my share actually STEAL them ALL!! We put them back out in March for Spring Breakers and the rest of us well-mannered folk.
Dana Junkin
May 27, 2014 at 5:08 pm
I’ve heard all of these. “Fixin’ to” is just not in Texas. I’ve heard it all my life in Alabama. She/he’s dumber than a doorknob. Bless her/his/your heart is also a way to sympathize, not always to insult. Thingamajig, whatchamacallit, and dooflatchy are all to describe something you can’t remember. Down here, it’s “pinch, poke, you owe me a Coke. Coke or drink can refer to anything. “Shug, can you get me a coke (drink)?” “Yes ma’am, what kind do you want?” I’ve also heard “Slow as molasses”, as in “I wished they would hurry up, they’re slower than molasses.” I’ve also heard it said “slower than Christmas.” I don’t mean to be crass, but “rode hard and put up wet” can be sexual. Especially, when referring to someone who is deemed easy. That’s how I always took this saying.
Bill Smith
May 27, 2014 at 5:48 pm
Southerners never go to the shore they always go to the beach.
Maryjane Cloud
May 27, 2014 at 7:56 pm
It’s always been boar hog here in Ga.
Elisabeth Kauffman Humphrey
May 27, 2014 at 8:50 pm
Spot-on except “bless your (hers, his) heart.” Depending on the situation, it can be sarcastic or a genuine expression of sympathy.
Robert Lee
May 27, 2014 at 9:29 pm
Or, She had a face that would stop a clock.
Robert Lee
May 27, 2014 at 9:32 pm
You forgot, Slicker than deer guts on a door knob.
Robert Lee
May 27, 2014 at 9:45 pm
I’m from the south, and right now live in Connecticut. Most people up here think southerners are really stupid. However, I am an intelligent person, and find that most people up here are really dumb. That being said, the people down south are so much nicer. I miss the people down there the most. They are rude here, unfriendly, and have no idea what to do when I say “Good Morning!”.
In conclusion, It SUCKS up here. Taxes are outrageous, the weather sucks, people are rude, and most of them are dumb as a bag of hammers. I can’t wait to get back.
Jon Wallace
May 27, 2014 at 11:04 pm
north al. tits on a boar hog
Jon Wallace
May 27, 2014 at 11:05 pm
in alabama we refer to florida as ” up north”
Jon Wallace
May 27, 2014 at 11:07 pm
how about …..” where’s ya momma?”….ownt know…..probly went to shit an the hogs ate her
TheEmperorIsStarkers
May 27, 2014 at 11:14 pm
My Maine farmer relatives say “madder than a wet hen” and “rode hard and put away wet.” But not “bless your heart,” which is my favorite. 🙂
Steve Watkins
May 28, 2014 at 3:28 am
In Dallas: Love New York? Take I-30 East!
Virginia
May 28, 2014 at 4:07 am
Whatever happened to everything will be okay “as long as the crick don’t rise and the Devil don’t interfere”?
Vanessa Brady Sanders
May 28, 2014 at 7:47 am
Boar hog in north ga. i would have thought it would be a southern appalachian thing because we double nouns as descriptors, boar hog, hound dog, toad frog etc.
cjb
May 28, 2014 at 10:20 am
You’re absolutely right, Wayne. I’ve only heard sh*ttin in high cotton, or sh*ttin in tall cotton. Referring to bathroom breaks in the field and, the taller the cotton, the more privacy you have. With the exception of the Alabama song, Walking in High Cotton, censored for obvious reasons!
Wayne Foster
May 28, 2014 at 4:25 pm
Yea…they got the buckteeth wrong…its could eat corn through a BARBED wire fence…and you do still hear “bless your heart” bout every day….bout a million more…..
Wayne Foster
May 28, 2014 at 4:28 pm
I hear alot “slicker than greased owl shit”….just a bunch of em…ima sleep on my pillar tonight..lol
Wayne Foster
May 28, 2014 at 4:30 pm
Was made a couple of times to go get a switch when i was little guy…never brought back a good one…
firewulf
May 28, 2014 at 6:30 pm
number 2 is Suppose to be “She was Madder than a Wet Setting Hen.” Ya’ll forgot the Setting part
Jean Cassels
May 28, 2014 at 6:45 pm
All the way down from work in Michigan to home in Nashville, part of every trip for my dad, was the search for the first RC cola in a gas station’s cooler.
Jennifer German
May 28, 2014 at 9:53 pm
One of my favorite advertising tag lines and one I have quoted a lot recently as FL is flooded by carpet bagging politicians…
sweetolbob
May 29, 2014 at 1:13 am
Well, lemme tell you. Bein form Ohio an livin for almost 40 years in Alabama, I kin answer the kweshun like this: There is some folks whose mamma an poppa, an aunts an cuzzins, an unkles an others was born in the south an lived here all their lifes.
AN THEN THERE’S THEM THAT WAS SMART ENUF TO MOVE HERE ! GIT IT ?
emilyroseau
May 29, 2014 at 11:22 am
Reminds me of a saying my dad uses regularly.. “Handy as a hip pocket” meaning something is extremely useful.
emilyroseau
May 29, 2014 at 11:57 am
I’ve always heard “Madder than a mashed cat”
K. Allyn Cosey, II
May 30, 2014 at 2:15 am
And “fixin to” is actually just a simplification of “preparing to”. It’s widespread, and I can’t stand how ignorant non-Southerners don’t make this simple connection. You can fix breakfast the same way you can prepare breakfast, so by analogy can you not be fixing to go in the same manner by which you can prepare to go?
“I agree; “arrange” seems to be the key. I’m actually not sure that the “getting ready” sense of “fix” is that unusual; Southerners (and even Northerners, I think) often use “fix” in sentences like “I fixed you some dinner,” where we mean “I prepared dinner” or “I got dinner ready.” “Fixing to” works in just the same way: when you’re fixing to do something, you are preparing to do it, or as you say, you’re getting ready to do it. I imagine that that sense of “fix” as “adjust or arrange” is how we got phrases like “I fixed dinner” in the first place, and “fixing to” is an extension of that usage.”
Source: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/27391/etymology-of-fixing-to
Ginny
May 30, 2014 at 3:11 pm
I was born in TX, but I lived in VA for a few years and people thought I was crazy for sayin’ fixin’ to. Or fidna. 🙂 I tell you what though, my kids know to back off and get right real quick when Momma says, “Look here!”
Gary Burrell
May 30, 2014 at 4:07 pm
Born ‘n raised 60+ years in the Mississippi Delta where several of my generations came….”bore hog”, it wasn’t “living” in high cotton it was “sh1771ng” in high cotton (where you couldn’t be seen taking a dump when you worked in the fields…been there done that…and it was nice if the cotton was open). Also, Yankees were compared to hemorrhoids…”If they come down and go back up it ain’t too bad…but if they come down and stay down, they are a pain in the a$$.” And…”bless their little heart” was something you could say after bad gossip to make it OK to say…so you could say anything about anybody as long as “bless their (little) heart” was added at the end.
xram
June 4, 2014 at 8:35 pm
I still get irritated when I ask for a coke in a restaurant and the waitress says, “Is Pepsi okay?” Well of course it is, you dimwit. Coke is not a brand name, it’s a generic term for what yankees call soda pop.
xram
June 4, 2014 at 8:37 pm
Amen. Nothing worse than a New Yorker moving down here to escape the taxes and other leftist lunacy, and then voting for the same kind of idiots that caused him to have to flee in the first place.
rsl pilot
June 5, 2014 at 11:39 am
From NC…
“Cold as a frog’s tale” = it’s cold as shit outside
“Umpteen” = countless times
Tricia Jackson Jones
June 5, 2014 at 8:54 pm
South, al tits on a boar hog, too.
John L. Williams
June 10, 2014 at 11:17 pm
My dad used to say a few things:
1. I can’t kill nothing, and won’t nothing die. (He uses this when he is out of money and doesn’t have a way to get any money in the immediate future.)
2. Lucky enough to piss in a swinging pail. (This is when you keep getting lucky breaks. Imagine how hard it is to aim your pee stream in a pail that is swinging, and you will get the drift.)
3. It’s a poor frog that doesn’t praise his own pond. (Self-esteem lesson…be proud of who you are and confident. Don’t put yourself down.)
smartytrousers
June 10, 2014 at 11:34 pm
How is the person a dimwit if where she’s from they call Coke a Coke? And not all “Yankees” use “Coke”. Some say pop. Some say soda.
Guest
June 14, 2014 at 6:49 pm
Lucky! If I brought back a crappy one I got sent back… and if I did it again my grandmother went and got the switch….. I NEVER liked that… lol
bc hughes
June 14, 2014 at 7:43 pm
Heard in New Mexico: agoggle. The house sets agoggle of the street corner. All home freezers are Deepfreezes, and several other things are called by the name of the first well-known manufacturer.
Earyaan C Kingsten
June 18, 2014 at 4:10 pm
How did the term “i lost my religion” not make that list? Southern slang for getting “madder than a wet hen” lol
The_Original_Silhouette
June 19, 2014 at 9:30 am
Still trying to figure out “cater” cornered since true Southerners say “Catty-Cornered” or “out of whampus”…tits on a boar (boar is indicative of a male hog) boar hog is like saying “male man”….this should have been written by a Southerner…
Gerald Wilkerson
June 19, 2014 at 3:25 pm
How about these:
1) Deader than 4 o’clock
2) I could pee so bad my back teeth are floating.
3) As comfortable as a whore in church.
4) By the grace of God there go I.
Smith Donaldson
June 19, 2014 at 9:12 pm
“Bullfrog” as well.
Nathaniel Shell
June 21, 2014 at 8:06 am
5th generation from Dallas Texas and I say bore hog too. People look at me like I got 3 heads but they all think it’s funny and they know what I mean too!
Nathaniel Shell
June 21, 2014 at 8:08 am
We always said, “handy as a pocket on a shirt”
Nathaniel Shell
June 21, 2014 at 8:11 am
My other half is fro Utah and I get “Fixin to” repeated to me every time I say it…which is all the time
Nathaniel Shell
June 21, 2014 at 8:14 am
My family has been in Texas for 5 generations and it’s a coke, what kinda coke you want? It could be a Dr. Pepper or a Sprite but it’s all a coke until you tell what kind.
Tina
June 21, 2014 at 10:05 pm
Fun topic! Haven’t heard anyone mention, “God willin’ the Creeks don’t rise.” I always thought it meant literal creeks, but I read it was talking about Creek Indians. Anyone know?
KLS
June 22, 2014 at 1:05 pm
I grew up in NC, and we always heard “useless as tits on a boy pig”. “Rare as a hen’s tooth” was common as well.
Becky S
June 22, 2014 at 2:58 pm
How about go pick a switch (ouch), I’m gonna lick the tar outta you, curtain climbers, britches, drawers, cotton pickin’, high falootin and high tootin…..skinny as a beanpole…
winder50
June 22, 2014 at 9:03 pm
I am from Atlanta, and you wouldn’t dare ask for anything but a Coke here. (Coca-cola was “born” in Atlanta.) Pepsi didn’t start becoming popular here mainly until the 70s or 80s, when “Yankees” started showing up in large numbers.
winder50
June 22, 2014 at 9:08 pm
If you want to REALLY be southern, you would say, “Well, bless your little pea-picking heart”. I never could understand how a heart could pick peas, but, oh well..
winder50
June 22, 2014 at 9:14 pm
I was going to say that, but you beat me to it. And unfortunately, here in Atlanta, we have a lot of “d—” Yankees.
sardiverdave
June 22, 2014 at 9:16 pm
I would think that “enough money to burn a wet mule” would mean that, since mules are big and that things that are wet don’t burn really well, that there would be enough money to make a large enough fire to go ahead and make that wet mule burn.
Wade Lambert
June 23, 2014 at 4:29 am
I’m from south Alabama and I have always heard it as tits on a boar hog.
Wade Lambert
June 23, 2014 at 4:49 am
As far as #13…Gov Long probably go that saying from a story like the one my grandfather told me. He said when was a kid a neighbor had a mule that get tired in the field and just lay down. The owner tried everything to get him up each time and nothing worked until it was nighttime and the mule would walk back to the barn. One day when it happen the owner went and got a big bunch of dried corn shucks and pile them onto the wet sweaty mule and then set them on fire. When they started burning good and got hot the mule jumped up and raced off. He said from then own the owner just kept a corn cob with dried shucks attached with him when he was plowing and would shake them when the mule started to get tired and slow down and the mule would speed back up again. I think this might be where Gov Long got the saying “enough money to burn a wet mule” from.
Tara Burns
June 23, 2014 at 10:23 am
My mother-in-law once said “I’m so weak that I couldn’t pull a greasy string outta a cat’s ass.” She would also tell her daughters-in-law “Don’t just sit there being ornamental.” In other words get up and help with the meal instead of just sitting there looking pretty.
10acres
June 23, 2014 at 11:37 am
Guess i’m southern.
chaka burroughs
June 23, 2014 at 4:00 pm
I’ve always heard it as “$hitting in high cotton and wiping your a$$ with the stalk.” My mom usually says this after I’ve spent money on something she thinks is ridiculous.
judy51
June 23, 2014 at 6:23 pm
i’ve always heard the tits on a bull…never on a boar hog…maybe it depends on what part of the south you’re from
DD Cook
June 23, 2014 at 6:44 pm
You just don’t get it, sweetie. Bless your heart.
smartytrousers
June 23, 2014 at 8:14 pm
Calling someone stupid for asking if a Pepsi is ok instead of a Coke, because they use soda, pop or anything other than Coke for a soft drink is “special”. Bless your heart. You guys don’t have the brain God gave to an ant.
Dawn Baldwin Eldred
June 24, 2014 at 8:14 am
Um, speak for yourself please….Yanks have plenty of heritage and phrases…ever been to Pittsburgh? Yins would have a great time…
Elaine Stewart Burgess
June 24, 2014 at 11:19 am
When I say Pepsi,that’s what I want. Don’t ask me if coke is ok. No it’s not ok! But I’ll drink it if I have too!
CJ Pennywhistle
June 24, 2014 at 6:20 pm
Lifelong Southerner here and I agree with Todd as well. Never heard it “on a bull” in all my born days.
KyraLaurana
June 24, 2014 at 9:01 pm
I’m from Tennessee and the term Coke is used with any kind of soda, at least with all of my friends and family. Suprisingly, i have heard most of these terms alot growing up. I myself work in retail, and when people ask how i am, i am finer than a frogs hair! I guess depending on which part of the neighborhood your from it differs. “Bless your heart” is very common as well as “bless it”. Bless it is more of a loving term, where bless your heart is more of calling you dumb, haha.
Just curious, did anyone else ever hear “put you accross my checkered apron”? My mammaw would say that anytime we acted up.
Ray W
June 25, 2014 at 8:57 am
“Well I swan!”
bidnessasusual
June 25, 2014 at 11:30 am
Now smartytrouser…..if you were Southern…by the Grace of God….you would say “You ain’t got the brain of a Billy Goat”….Bless your heart.
smartytrousers
June 25, 2014 at 8:33 pm
I’m not Southern and having the brain of a billy goat is too much of a compliment. I’ll stick with an ant.
Joe
June 26, 2014 at 4:19 pm
Born and raised in Alabama and I’ve only heard 6 of these before. Maybe it’s a generational thing.
jeanette
June 27, 2014 at 8:31 am
When Southern women say “bless their heart” you know you’re going
to get the latest gossip or personal history of the person getting blessed. It’s not a sin to talk about someone if you start with “bless their heart”. Another saying my dad used was “if you dance you gotta pay the fiddler”, he always used this as I left for a date.
bidnessasusual
July 1, 2014 at 8:26 am
You’re a real winner aren’t you……Are you trying to convince me or yourself that you’re smarter? How hospitality is connected to Coke or Pepsi being interchangeable is beyond me. You’re beyond a “bless your heart”.
smartytrousers
July 1, 2014 at 9:09 am
I can’t convince you of anything. If you think someone is stupid for doing things their way, I have nothing to convince you of. People are from different areas, they say different things. People are different, and not stupid for being so.
Just in case you didn’t know. A part of being hospitable is being friendly and nice. The beginning of this exchange is the opposite of that. Especially considering it’s not logical to consider someone stupid for doing that.
Jennifer Perkins
July 1, 2014 at 10:00 am
Poor smartytrousers, are you PMSin’? You’re smarter than us? LMBO, Yankees always think we run around barefoot with a corn cob pipe. I seriously doubt you want to compare educational background with many of us, plus there’s no accounting for good ol’ Southern common sense and ingenuity, no matter what the education level.
But, more importantly we have the best senses of humor and we season our food…
But, keep thinking we’re stupid hicks, because we want the Yanks to stay north of the Mason Dixon Line. We have a beautiful place down here, gorgeous lakes for miles, beautiful forests and National parks, friendly people who just start up discussions waiting to check out at a cash register. So we don’t care for the Yankees infiltrating, unless they beautifully assimilate.
I’ve known many who came to visit and loved it so much they stayed and finally “got it”. They’ve become Southerners through and through and are extremely proud of it. So God bless.
Jennifer Perkins
July 1, 2014 at 10:16 am
These cracked me up. I’ve always heard, beat with an ugly stick. My Mom has a million more Southernisms two bein’ “I’m as nervous as a whore in church, or I’m as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
Jennifer Perkins
July 1, 2014 at 10:18 am
My family has used all of these..
Kay Hartt
July 1, 2014 at 10:58 am
I’ve lived in the South most all my life and this is something I’ve heard only in Virginia. When you live in Va., your “aunt” is spoken as “ant”. For example, ” I think I’ll stop by my Aunt Peggy’s house on the way home today.” Also, in the Tidewater part of Va., air conditioning is called “A.C.” by everyone. You almost never hear “air conditioning”.
bidnessasusual
July 2, 2014 at 12:37 pm
Look dummy trousers….It’s been real treat to converse with someone who is affectionately known in the South as a “southbound end of a northbound mule”. Yes, I called you a dummy and a jackass. You are just arguing with yourself anyway and have way too much intellect for a dumb ole southerner like myself. Have a nice life now…ya hear.
smartytrousers
July 2, 2014 at 1:16 pm
I knew it result to name calling eventually. People usually resort to arguing like a child and not debating the point. If I’m dumb for using sense, I’ll be that. I’m not really losing sleep over you disagreeing with me. And no matter how many names you call me, I only have to answer to what I want to.
And if I’m arguing with myself, why do you keep responding? Smh. “Bless your heart”.
Judy
July 7, 2014 at 6:21 pm
xram….I’m sure the waitress/waiter is not a dimwit but is just making sure she understands what you want. When a place asked my husband is Pepsi ok, meaning they don’t serve Coke, he would say no and ask for sweet tea. I would imagine if they brought a Pepsi to someone that ordered a Coke, they would be unhappy. They do not taste alike, ya know? And honey, when you capitalize the word ‘Coke’ it is mostly assuredly a brand name.
Judy
July 7, 2014 at 6:25 pm
I don’t believe Coke and Pepsi are the same thing because for the simple reason is that they do NOT taste alike. People in GA certainly know the difference.
smartytrousers
July 7, 2014 at 7:00 pm
I don’t believe I ever said they were the same thing. I was arguing that the waitress is not a dimwit because she asks for clarification. Because she may not use Coke to be synonymous as a carbonate beverage.
Stacey McCollum Aasved
July 13, 2014 at 6:09 pm
In my southern opinion, when a waitress asks “is Pepsi ok” that’s a complete insult. No Pepsi is not ok, I want a Coke. Coke is southern wether is may mean Sprite or Mr. Pibb, it’s all Coke products. Pepsi is disgusting and not exceptable in place of Coke.
James
September 13, 2014 at 12:43 am
My dad was from Memphis and would call a clever person ‘sharp as a ‘possum’s tooth’, a crafty person was ‘slick as snot on a brass door knob’, and if he really hated someone he ‘wouldn’t waste my piss by peeing in their mouth if their tongue was on fire’. (heard most often in reference to politicians.)
Tim Heaton
December 16, 2014 at 7:46 pm
ugh Foxworthy. The first time wasn’t that funny
serenity
January 24, 2015 at 9:08 am
The saying is “we’re shitting in high cotton now”
Mamasan
February 8, 2015 at 3:36 pm
My mother-in-law used to call anyone she deemed ugly, “ill-favored.” My husband says “it’s eatin’ right where I’m holdin’ it” to mean the food is really good. He also says, “If it was any better, I couldn’t stand it” to mean the same thing. He uses “I’m hangin’ in there like a hair in a biscuit” to mean he’s toughing conditions out. Also, I’m from North Carolina, the home of Pepsi products. North Carolina, though north of South Carolina, is still considered part of the South. My husband hails from Georgia. We prefer Coke over any other cola, but Mountain Dew (Pepsi product) over Mellow Yellow. And we use “walking in tall cotton’ or just “in high cotton” to mean someone is doing well financially. I have enjoyed reading all y’all’s comments.
Zep
February 14, 2015 at 3:59 pm
“Crazier than a sprayed roach”
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When in the south…
1)Female speaking to male- “Well, bless your lil heart.”
Flirtatious/sincere
2)Female speaking to female- “Bless your sweet lil heart”
Agenda! Everytime! Blessed by the devil maybe.
Jo Nicholson
April 4, 2015 at 9:01 pm
Does anyone know the original or meaning of “Shit fire and save matches” ?
Sam England
April 13, 2015 at 2:37 pm
“Bless your heart” does not always have a meaning of hidden insult. Although, as at least one poster mentioned above, it’s not widely said anymore, it could also mean a genuine compliment and comment praising either good intentions, or a good deed.
My late paternal grandmother (born 1895, died 1976), and lived her whole life in Atlanta, would say, “Why bless your heart” if I offered to help her with something, or whatever.
Incidentally, I was a professional stand-up comic, native Atlantan, for 8 years. I opened with a joke about the colloquialism “fixin'”, and I relate that I’m from Atlanta. In south Georgia and much of the lowlands South, to many, “anyone north of Macon is a Yankee!”
This guy yelled it out at a gig in Tallahassee, “BS! Anybody north of Macon is a Yankee!” To which I replied, “Well gee, no wonder we lost the Civil War; it was the United States versus Florida!”
Sam England
April 13, 2015 at 2:43 pm
By the way, an old phrase I didn’t see on here but that is pretty funny:
“Happier than a cat at a fish fry.” 🙂
DC
May 6, 2015 at 8:04 pm
Anyone ever hear “dang they look like the GRAPES OF WRATH” ?? which is basically saying “they look dirt poor and homeless” like in the movie of the same title , my aunt would say that a lot
about any poor people she saw accompanied by a grin or by a look of sympathy depending on her opinion of the so noted parties !!
or “he looks like a jackass eating briars” ?? or “finer than frog hair” !!
Amanda
May 15, 2015 at 9:50 am
My favorite will always be… “Sweatin’ like a whore in church” (if I have to explain the meaning there is no use…
And, people down here still use ‘bless your heart’. It isn’t always passive aggressive though
I’ll leave you with: Slow as molasses in January…
Anonymous
May 18, 2015 at 4:28 pm
I’ve only ever heard 2, 10 and the Bonus(Bless your heart) is used all the timeespecially by those trying to more polite while commenting on people, ahem, unfortunate state. As for 12 I’ve never heard anyone say cata-wompus but in my family we say kiddy-wompus which probably came from kitty-wompus and then cata-wompus But I’ve only ever heard family members say it.
I’m sure there are a few more of these alive somewhere especially relating to pigs and horses but I’ve never heard them my family has only ever been around chickens, cows or goats.
Anonymous
May 24, 2015 at 9:44 pm
Shit fire and save the matches
Anonymous
May 24, 2015 at 9:45 pm
Ya gotta be shittin me
MPoss
June 8, 2015 at 4:51 am
Looks like her Mama suckled her with lemons.
Anonymous
June 8, 2015 at 6:02 am
What do southerners call someone from the north? Boss.
Beck from the Creek
June 13, 2015 at 4:40 am
One of my grandpa’s favorites: “It looks like a hog’s ass sewed up with barbed wire!”
Beck from the Creek
June 13, 2015 at 4:46 am
Heavy traffic on a narrow road is: “like piss ants on a clothesline!”
becky sue
July 2, 2015 at 6:14 pm
Lord, I feel like I’m back home in MISSOURI. Love It.
rambler
July 19, 2015 at 3:52 am
I find it odd everyone on the internet saying that “bless your heart” is used as a passive aggressive insult, my grandmother used this saying sincerely when she heard about someone who was sick or going through trouble or who had done a good deed. She didn’t use it in a mean way.
Aint Jo
July 26, 2015 at 8:50 pm
Oh, please please someone tell me if you’ve ever heard: (pardon me, I’m not racist, really but I heard this recently and makes no sense a’tall to me) here it is: ” your ass is black”… I was told it means “you are right”. But I really don’t get that connection. Please someone explain. Thanks so much!
Aint Jo
August 6, 2015 at 6:47 pm
Anybody???
Hillary
August 13, 2015 at 8:16 pm
Lots of common expressions missing from this list. All my now deceased grandparents said “shit fire and save the match” when seeing something incredible. Also “nigger-rig meant using one’s smarts to repair something when the official parts were not available or affordable (as many colored folks were poor). I don’t think it was considered racist as all of my colored friends used the term.
Danny D
September 3, 2015 at 8:36 am
As EVIL as Homemade sin
As USELESS as ice trays in hell
bennie jones
September 5, 2015 at 3:46 pm
I think the origin of ” shit fire and save matches” was my Mother she said it so much and I am glad someone besides me wrote it letting me know others had heard this statement. : 0
It seems the sh _t word was just a common word as in the South you always heard, Well sh-t, or Sh-t on it, or I am going knock the sh-t out of you if you don’t behave. No wonder I was always constipated !
bennie jones
September 5, 2015 at 3:49 pm
Your ass is black was always used with us as it is going to be black in blue as we are going to “whip your ass” and it will be black. I don’t think it is a racist phrase and was used in threatening tones with us.
bennie jones
September 5, 2015 at 4:08 pm
I also looked up sh-t fire and save matches and it stated during the war, matches were scarce eluding to this expression.
bennie jones
September 5, 2015 at 4:46 pm
Okay, this is my last post but I was reading the other posts and remembered my Mother used “Colder than a witch’s tit in the Klondike” I really appreciate these posts as I can relate to them all, having heard them from various members of my family.
tessa
September 5, 2015 at 11:06 pm
“I bet his shit don’t stink either”- a response to someone bragging
Sandy
September 8, 2015 at 10:58 am
Well, I grew up with most of those, the funny thing is ‘Bless your heart’ was just a legitimate way of getting by with gossip……”she looks like she’s gaining weight, “Bless her heart”. LOL, Also, I’m from TN and to go up a hill was to “go up the steep”. Great fun seeing some of these!
Sandy
September 8, 2015 at 11:00 am
Aint Jo…..wish I could help, but I haven’t heard that one.
Dea Anderson
September 11, 2015 at 8:00 am
I learned to talk in Alabama, schooled in North Carolina, lived in New Hampshire 20 years, but born in Colorado. I believe I’m a “Yankee Belle from Vale.” Ha.
Anyway, my Bittymaw would say:
“Why her britches is so tight you could crack a tick on ’em.”
“Useless as tits on a BOY DOG.”
“We just hangin’ out like a hair in a biscuit.”
“Jesus, Mary and Joseph.”
“God Luv It.” It could be a baby, elderly person, animal, etc. (An endearing reference to “IT” – God Luv It)
My dad always said: “Ah, Bull Roar.”
My mom always said: “Ah, Horse Shit.”
My uncle always said: “Hells Bells.”
I told my twins I loved them more than all my livers and gizzards. They used to fight over which was the livers and who was my gizzards … ’til they grew up. hehehe. Made that one up myself. When they’d argue to the point I couldn’t take it anymore, I’d say, “I’ma pull them lips off and tack up on the outside of the house and all yer friends and neighbors is gonna hear everything ya’ll is a sayin..” They looked at each other, and I heard one child say to the other: “Can she do that? I don’t know,” said the other youngin’, but I don’t wanna find out.” hehehe I told them all kinds of crazy stuff. We just laugh and laugh now.I still have a few things I’m saving for later. For the 20 years I lived up in New Hampshire, people ALWAYS said, “you’re not from around here (my accent)” …. and I’d say, “I’m from Southern NH” (seeing as I lived in …. southern NH – it actually stumped people quite often and then I’d laugh. When I come home to NC to see my folks, I hear the twanging and I’m like … “WHOA … since I’m so used to hearing the New Hampsha slang, so I understand.” HOWEVER, as soon as I got here … someone said, “you’re not from around here are you?” I’m like, … “NOOOOOOO Not Here, too! ‘cuz I heard it so much up north and (apparently) I have a really deep Alabama accent…. so here I go again.. Me and my folks just cracked up.
I have enjoyed everyone’s stories. Thanks for sharing and “Ya’ll be Perticular Now Out Chonder”
Ron Ray
September 13, 2015 at 4:44 pm
One I’ve always heard but couldn’t understand is “Raining like pouring piss out of a boot”… Now I can understand the reference to the amount and sound as being rendered from the boot; my lack of understanding is what the heck is piss doing in a boot!? Is that a common occurrence…?
ncf
September 18, 2015 at 4:07 am
“Nicing” among Southern women is not just legend – my mom is a pro and the one being niced wouldn’t realize it. There’s also might could as I might could travel on down y’alls way later. And for the record – y’all is singular, all y’all is plural.
Rita Holt Packett
September 28, 2015 at 7:26 am
I’m from Tennessee. I rarely say ya’ll. Instead it’s you’ns. Different areas of the south have their own unique phrases. My relatives from Alabama and Mississippi say “They carried you to the store”. I disagree that you insulted southerners with this article. I too see the humor in our speech, “Bless your little cotton picking heart”!
Diane
October 4, 2015 at 12:18 pm
Well, butter my butt & call me biscuit.
My aunt used to say about poorly dressed people “you never see a shabby jack but what it’s hitched to a shabby jenny”.
kate
October 20, 2015 at 12:23 pm
i use these allllll the time. seriously and im high up north then again my fam was from Kentucky Alabama and Louisiana but yeah this is just the start of southern
Annonymous
November 14, 2015 at 2:33 pm
A few bricks shy of a load.
The elevator doesn’t go to the top floor.
Not the brightest light in the chandelier.
Not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Ramona
November 15, 2015 at 1:22 pm
We do say Bless his/her heart every day in Alabama, but it is not predominantly an insult. It means a great many things. It might be an expression of sympath when someone is hurt or sad, or it could be used as a statement concern, and yes, it could be an insult, Context is everything.
sassy southern belle
November 27, 2015 at 12:19 pm
Hotter than a three balled tomcat peeing on a flat rock or bland as a loaf of light bread or sh*t fire and save matches, f*ck a duck n see what hatches! If yankees don’t like our sayings then they can bitch from their own northern state and not here!!
Rebe Lee
December 31, 2015 at 12:50 am
I’m a South Floridian, and as far a Florida being ‘up North’, y’all got us all wrong..Florida Cracker territory, and up in North Florida, is as Southern as the Bible Belt. Polk County is as hick as the Ozarks. And the rest is tourist-ville, or Caribbean in flavor…None of us are too keen on being compared to yankees….
Ryan
January 2, 2016 at 4:17 am
I’m not from the south but somehow over the years I gathered up a few sayings that are similar to “yalls”. I think some of it must be inherited cause I say sayings and pick up on things that aren’t really common around where I’m from but my brothers for sure know what I mean and people don’t seem to say them but they understand me when I do so without further a do one is ” it’s hotter than hogshit in a pig farm out here” means it’s dam hot outside. Another that similar to one from the south is “that’s about as useless as tits on a nun”. Then there’s “he’s not the sharpest tool in the shed” if someone’s an idiot or I got screwed six ways from Sunday if you get cheated somehow. Or another good one is I don’t trust them further than I can spit.
Meg
January 4, 2016 at 9:11 am
In my lifetime, I have been privileged to know some of the most gracious southern ladies God made. There was not an insincere bone in their bodies, and they valued kindness above all. Perhaps because I moved to Austin in my early thirties, I have altogether missed encountering those passive-aggressive types who misuse the phrase, “Bless your heart.” Was it perverted by the new generation? Truly, I have never heard it used in a snide way but only read about it on the internet. If this is your habit, you have a plethora of modern day expressions to use, so please do not cast doubt on those of us who use the phrase to express genuine compassion.
Marissa
January 23, 2016 at 12:11 am
heard in Georgia: “I’m gonna carry the car out to the base and pick up my husband.”
wanda
January 23, 2016 at 9:14 am
does anyone knows what step in are I do
YXN
January 23, 2016 at 10:51 am
Lived in GA – and we said stuff like You look like shot at and missed but s*it at and hit.
Anonymous
January 23, 2016 at 6:54 pm
If i had a face that looked that bad, I’d shave my butt and walk backwards.
David Doggett
January 23, 2016 at 9:05 pm
Well all y’all’s comments left me grinnin’ like a possum sh*ttin’ peach pits.:)
country boy from Alabama
January 23, 2016 at 9:17 pm
“There’s more ways of choking a dog than feeding him buttermilk”. So drunk, couldn’t hit the ground with his hat.
” High as a Georgia pine “. Hog killing weather. Like a calf looking at a new gate. Prettier than a speckled pup. Let’s make like cow sh*t,and hit the road. More lines on his face than a Georgia road map. Sh*t in the creek to keep from setting the woods on fire.
It is what it is
January 23, 2016 at 10:15 pm
For all you folks gettin’ your panties in a wad….lighten up! This article was spot on! I was born and raised in the south. I don’t feel that this was offensive or indicative of my intelligence in any shape or form. It is what it is….TRUE! and for arguments sake, “Bless your heart,” is still used in sympathy for ones situation AND to insult someone. So, if all you are going to be is a Debbie Downer, don’t read these articles! We Southerners are proud of our individuality! Bless your heart and don’t let the bed bugs bite y’all!!!
Nancy Combs
January 24, 2016 at 9:38 am
I’m a true southerner, born and bred, going back many generations. Most of these were spot on. One thing most folks outside the south don’t understand is southerners are only rude on purpose.
KAREN
January 24, 2016 at 10:28 am
TWO THAT MY AUNT ALWAYS SAID: “Have you been out galavanting all over town today?” when you were out all day. And ” I been ransacking all morning looking for that.” used when she was hunting for something that was misplaced.
Deeb
January 24, 2016 at 11:16 am
Obviously written by a condescending Yankee who didn´t quite understand us. Using ¨even in the South¨ and saying that the south doesn´t worry about details or history shows that you don´t know beans about us.
Marie
January 24, 2016 at 11:44 am
I have heard all of them and many more! My favorite my granny used to say though was when asked how she was feeling. “With my fingers” was always her response.
Anonymous
January 24, 2016 at 11:59 am
Don’t know his ass from a hole in the ground.
Anonymous
January 24, 2016 at 12:04 pm
She’s ten foot to the first peckerwood hole, referring to a very tall Woman.
Anonymous
January 24, 2016 at 12:05 pm
He’s hung like a mule.
Anonymous
January 24, 2016 at 12:06 pm
He is so tight he would fart on a flat rock to save grease.
Anonymous
January 24, 2016 at 12:08 pm
It’s so cold out it would freeze the ball off a bras monkey.
Anonymous
January 24, 2016 at 12:14 pm
They are a few fries short of a happy meal. Speaking of someone crazy.
Anonymous
January 24, 2016 at 12:20 pm
Slicker than cum on a gold tooth
Vicky
January 24, 2016 at 1:08 pm
I’m a southern lady, don’t use profanity except for the “S” word and am “tougher than a pine knot”!
Anonymous
January 24, 2016 at 3:07 pm
Mash: to press a button.
PJ
January 24, 2016 at 5:26 pm
In England we just call all Americans ‘Yanks’. But then you guys call us people from Britain ‘Brits’ (it’s ‘Britons’) and even ‘Limeys’, so we’re nicer 🙂
Georgia Rick
January 24, 2016 at 5:47 pm
#7 I always heard as ” happy as a pig in a mud puddle” -pigs like & need to roll in the mud.
#9 I always heard as “finer than frogs hair” & yes we all know frogs dont have hair!
“bless your heart ” is not an insulting comment. That was started by a yankee who doesnt know better or a rude ( & yes there are some)Southner. I was born in Georgia & raised in different parts of the country, my dad was military so we moved around a lot. I have found that most people who are not from the south are always in a hurry & generally rude & pushy, Southerners on the other hand have & use good manners & polite to just about everyone. We will wave, say “hiddy” ( southern for hello or hi) & do it with a smile. NOW all you yankees dont be offended, we kinda like y’all but would like you more if you went back home or quit trying to change us. If you dont like the way things are here or are homesick for how it is back up north, THEN GO BACK UP THERE!! We have our pride & history leave us alone. We like our flags, our war heros & our monuments, we dont go up there & tell you what flags to or not to fly & what monuments you can or can not have.
Done now, please excuse the rant, but I get peeved at outsiders trying to tell others how to live & what they should & should not have.
Thanks & “BLESS YOUR HEARTS”
Teresa
January 24, 2016 at 7:22 pm
She don’t know if she’s washing or hanging out!
Marilyn
January 24, 2016 at 8:22 pm
My mom would always say ‘you may want horns but you’ll die Butt headed’. I was going to get Tshirts for all the grandchildren with that on it.
Anna I
January 24, 2016 at 9:24 pm
Southern girl here, and familiar with 95% of these expressions, but a true belle doesn’t resort to cursing, s-word included. JS. A few add-ins: saying “Scat” (rather than “bless you”) when someone sneezes; “a few beads off plumb,” “nuttier than a fruitcake,” or “crazier than a loon/coot” for someone odd or downright crazy; (…speaking of which, “downright”)! “What’s time to a hog?” –a question used in reference to someone doing something stupid; doggonit, dagnabbit, dadgummit; when milk is just at that point of being unusable, it’s “blinky”; disobey long enough, and you’re likely to get a “Sundy-go-ta-meetin’ talk,” which is never good; people referring to someone who is financially blessed and living the good life, especially if it’s a sudden change, will say that (s)he “fell in tall cotton”; “going hog wild”; “catty-cornered” and “catty-whompus”; “screaming like a banshee”; “can’t carry a tune in a bucket”; getting a “whuppin’ ” or a “lickin’ ” after mom says she’s gonna “tan your hide” and “send you six ways to Sunday”; “so cold you’ll freeze your tutu off”; and in my experience, when a southern gal says, “bless YOUR heart,” she usually means it literally. But when she follows up a comment about someone ELSE with the phrase, “God love her,” then it’s gossip being justified. Love this conversation!
DAPHNE
January 25, 2016 at 12:35 am
LOVED THEM ALL!HAVE USED ALL OF THEM ONE TIME OR ANOTHER,HOW ABOUT CATCH YA LATER GATOR WHEN YOUR TEETH ALITTLE STRAIGHTER,SO MANY GOOD ONES WE USE EVERY DAY & THINK NOTHING ABOUT WHERE OR HOW THEY CAME ABOUT!!!!LOVE THEM ALL LEARNED SOME NEW ONES ALSO!
Diania
January 25, 2016 at 1:00 am
A couple my mom used to say; I’m going to box your ears, or I will knock you into next week, and I’m going to whap you so hard your ears will ring for a week! Also there was the phrase I will clean your clock! I guess I was a little devil; she was always telling me things like this. Also she regularly threatened to Tan my hide!
george
January 25, 2016 at 2:37 am
From my aunts & grandma, one of the several proper responses to ” Is you is, or is you ain’t? ” is ” yes mam, I’m finer than a frogs hair.”
george
January 25, 2016 at 3:03 am
“Rode hard & out away wet” refers to treating a woman poorly, riding her hard (sexually), & then ignoring her. It come from treating your horse poorly.
don wallace
January 25, 2016 at 7:23 am
Used to ask grandma what was for supper. She would say Poke Rolls and Grits and we would say huh and she would say Poke your feet under the table Roll your eyes and Grit your teeth. Might have missed it but didn’t see Tighter than Dick’s hatband either.
don wallace
January 25, 2016 at 7:42 am
Also never heard the word panties until I was about 12 years old always heard them called step-ins and grandma would tell me when I was about 15 and started getting interested in the opposite sex Boy you better leave them split tail girls alone.
Deb
January 25, 2016 at 9:38 am
All around a pigs butt pork and a monkey has a,red @$! Hole
Monica Thompson
January 25, 2016 at 12:07 pm
“Bless your heart” or “Bless his/her heart” doesn’t necessarily call someone an idiot. It can be used to express pity, as a way of saying you feel sorry for someone, but can also be used passive aggressively or as an insult.
JPWalker Jr
January 25, 2016 at 5:21 pm
my grand dad was from Va. I am from NJ now in Tennessee a half back. The only yank with Rebel in his blood. Slicker then snot on a door nob & tits on a bull. I have heard of them all after living in Texas & Florida. I just don’t remember them when I am talking but I love them. I have also lived in Wyoming. things are fun all over but I have to say just because you live up north or down south doesn’t make you dumber or smarter. It takes us all to make America. I was Air Force & Army for 11 years so I met y’all & I love Tennessee!!!!
Bonnie
January 25, 2016 at 7:11 pm
Halfbacker here, living in Cary, in fact. *lol*
Some of us aren’t “damnyankees.” I tend to blend in wherever I live. Lived in Florida for 30+ years and am as much Floridian as I am a Pennsylvanian. Now I’m in N.C. and loving it here. People are friendlier and more polite (genuinely) than in S. Florida. I’ve found my place.
Not all Yankees are assholes. Just some of us. I assume the same goes for southerners.
Love some of the expressions. Had never heard the “high cotton” one before, although the rest were familiar.
JMac of GA
January 25, 2016 at 8:17 pm
Skimming through this endless list, I’ve not come upon “directly,” meaning anything but. I’ll be doing that directly pretty much means I’ll be doing that right after what I’m doing now, however long that might take, or whatever distractions might come up.
sas1971
January 26, 2016 at 11:04 am
My pawpaw used to fuss at us kids to quit pilfering around in things that don’t belong to us. (Looking through cabinets and stuff laying around the house) And Cold drank was what you asked for when you wanted pepsi or coke. The ladies all called their purses.. pocketbooks. And one of my favorites was -He couldn’t say shit with a mouth full (of it).
Harlan County proud
January 26, 2016 at 11:18 am
I was born in the South, Bloody Harlan KY but I’ve lived outside Pittsburgh PA for many years also which has it’s own language for sure!! I’m pretty sure the author of this article was a Yankee due to the fact that they were more than a little insulting to Southerners with some of their comments about our ignoring history and other veiled insults. Anyways, I’ve always heard Bless your heart used as a term of sympathy not as an insult and a few I’ve never heard at all. Some ones I can remember growing up with right off the top of my head were Fixin to, Runnin round like a chicken with it’s head cut off, Sweatin like a whore in Church, Over yonder, Nutty as squirrel sh!t and one my welding teacher used to say to us a lot was A hard day’s work and a cold RC would kill you. Also had quite a few friends that used to say the word ears and it sounded like years lol!! I’m damn proud of where I came from and can remember taking many a Yankee friend back home with me to go camping, hunting or fishing and always hearing them say at least once “Are all ya’ll this friendly in the South?” Or “man ya’ll have got the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen down here” I’d never have left home but, there’s just no work anymore because all the mines are closing down.
John
January 26, 2016 at 11:31 am
Gary Indiana here and Get your story right. Who hasn’t heard the backward hillbilly sayings? My God they have been around forever. Every hillbilly in Whoville spouts them day and night!!
Lorelei
January 26, 2016 at 11:36 am
I’ve been in the South since I was 4 years old and I’ve heard most of these. The one that cracked me up when I first heard my husband say it is, “That’s a real frog strangler,” meaning that it’s raining really hard. I love the Southern accent and expressiveness. To me, it’s a language made for storytelling. There are storytelling festivals where that skill is on beautiful display.
I’ve read several articles about the various Southern accents. It seems that they are the closest accents to those of the original British settlers.
I have to agree that the article comes off as condescending.
Cynthia Pena
January 26, 2016 at 2:46 pm
Slicker than owl sh** on a hot tin roof. Fast as a herd of turtles.
It was throbbing like a sick Mockingbirds ass, cute as a bug.
Doug
January 26, 2016 at 4:58 pm
Michael, You are wrong to a degree. Maryland was a southern state but the union kept it neutral. At the battle of Antetium many of the Southern soldiers were Marylanders that joined the fight against the Union. .
One phrase my father use to use all the time, “Hotter than a two dollar pistol”
Maggie
January 26, 2016 at 5:28 pm
How about….. I as weak as a fart in a whirlwind. My mouth’s as dry as an ox fart in the desert. Or, As a powder house.
Anonymous
January 26, 2016 at 7:21 pm
He ain’t got a pot to pee or a winnder to throw it out of.
Mary
January 26, 2016 at 9:21 pm
ever heard …busier than a chicken on a hot rock or
IF ..if a frog had wings he wouldnt bump his ass on the rocks
Triciathomas
January 26, 2016 at 10:08 pm
Love to hear all the Southern Sayings! One I do not see is the comment about a “bow-legged” person is “he’s so bow-legged that he couldn’t hem a hog in a ditch.” “Over yonder” is a phase that I was always teased about when living “up north”. “Poke and plum town” means a town so small that by the time you “poke” your head out of a car window you will be “plum” out of town. A person so stubborn that he will “argue with a fence post and chuck rocks at it when it doesn’t argue back” is a phrase my moma often used.
kimberly Reese
January 26, 2016 at 10:25 pm
I have heard when something wonderful happens in someones life… Shittin’ in high cotton and wipin’ with the top leaf!!!
Stacy
January 27, 2016 at 2:17 am
What in Sam Hill?
KajunRajun
January 27, 2016 at 7:03 am
Good article, although the tone was a trifle snitty, as my Granny would say. My family has been in Louisiana for a very long time and I grew up hearing most of the phrases mentioned. “Bless your heart,” depends so much on circumstances. “God love ’em,” was used more when talking about someone, as in “She is gonna marry that boy, God love ’em.” “Like a cat on a hot tin roof,” meant someone with an excess of energy or a nervous disposition. “Fast as a duck on a june bug,” means doing something quickly. The one that always annoyed me as a child was “directly.” “we’ll go down to the store directly,” or “I’ll fix supper directly.” Just how long is a directly, exactly? ” “Tail over tin cup,” is to trip or be knocked down. “Don’t have a pot to piss in, or window to throw it out of,” is a very poor person. “He doesn’t have sense to poor piss out of a boot, if the directions were written on the heel,” is self-explanatory.
And PJ, I spent my teenage years in Britain – Scotland – to be precise during the oil boom of the 70s. I’d say 99.99% percent of the oil field workers in those days were Southerners, and to be called a yank was blood feud talk. 🙂
I'm Sharon
January 27, 2016 at 9:54 am
I’m from WV. These are some I’ve heard. He is dumber than a box of rocks. She’s sweating like a whore in church.
Anonymous
January 27, 2016 at 11:20 am
Jim from N.C.
Damn!! That’s hotter ‘n a two peckered goat.
Hank
January 27, 2016 at 11:34 am
I’m Southern for many generations back. My momma was from Mobile and my daddy was from South Georgia. I grew up in South Carolina where I live now. I have heard and used most of the colloquialisms mentioned above all my life. It’s interesting to read the various regional variations of these common phrases. I understand them immediately, even though I gave never heard some of the phrasings mentioned above. Here are three that haven’t been mentioned:
“Worth havin’ ” – an expression of appreciation, commonly used after finishing a particularly tasty meal or delicacy: “That was worth havin’.”
“Coon’s age” – a “long time.” The word “coon”, as used in this phrase, is a contraction of the term “raccoon,” Raccoons are notioriously smart and live long lives by outwitting human attempts to do them in. Hence the phrase “coon’s age,” meaning a long time. Unfortunately, “political correctness” has painted the word “coon” with broad racial overtones and threatens to drive it out of the vernacular because it has also been used as a disparaging racial term for a black person, much like the “N word.” The phrase “coon’s age” has no racial connotation. It refers to the long lives enjoyed by smart raccoons.
“It’s raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock” – it’s raining real hard.
Hank
January 27, 2016 at 12:02 pm
Thought of another one:
“Too small to swing a cat” – a small space, I.E., a space (usually a room or other enclosure) that is so small one could not hold a cat by the tail and swing it in a circle without hitting a wall or other obstruction.
Cap
January 27, 2016 at 1:35 pm
I was in the Army before I understood that “stopping anywhere to get a drink” didn’t include a Coke, Pepsi, RC, Orange, or any other beverage that Northerners instructed me were referred to only as sodas. Apparently, drinks only involved something mixed with alcohol. I guess since my people didn’t mix their alcohol, I didn’t know any better.
Cap
January 27, 2016 at 1:39 pm
How about: “I’m fixin to do it, or I’m fixin to say it.”
Lori
January 27, 2016 at 7:28 pm
How about “happy as the birds in May” My grandma from Arkansas said that all the time
Mr.Johnny
January 27, 2016 at 7:53 pm
I did not have time to read all of these tonight, but one of my favorites, (in the right company) is describing someone “as ugly as a pocketful of frogs.” In coarser company it would be “as ugly as a pocketful of a**holes.” Just born at the right time in the south, I have heard these and probabaly more.
Mr.Johnny
January 27, 2016 at 7:59 pm
just reading back through some of the comments is another that occured– when looking at a particuraly attactive woman, one man might say to another “Two pounds of that and a glass of ice water would kill you…”
virginia
January 27, 2016 at 7:59 pm
Goin’ to see a man about a mule.. means.none of your business when asked where are you going?
Anonymous
January 28, 2016 at 8:34 am
He was so ugly they had to hang a pork chop around his neck to get the dog to play with him.
dawnsoles
January 28, 2016 at 9:36 am
My grandpa always said when asked about time “time all fools are dead ain’t you sick”
Anonymous
January 28, 2016 at 1:33 pm
Dumb as hammered mud.
Anonymous
January 28, 2016 at 2:01 pm
Ugly enought to knock a buzzard off a gut wagon
Ghostperson
January 28, 2016 at 10:54 pm
Cheapskate: That fellar’d squeeze a nickle till the buffalo shit..
Anonymous
January 29, 2016 at 3:12 am
Slicker than snot on a school boy ‘s sleeve!
Anonymous
January 29, 2016 at 12:14 pm
Coyote UGLY. West Texas slang..when I used to catch live jackrabbits,70..200 per night,we shipped em off to Jewland,er Florida, to sell to greyhound race trainers,1972 7 american dollars ,usual number arriving alive..400..450 ..Johnny King, Danny Keith,Billy Bob Pounds and myself split half the money. One week in the spring we held back 100 rabbits for our own use, the fellers haulin em 2 Florida asked what the heck we were gone do with em. We told em it was our bussiness and our s alone …funny thing happened, somehow them critters got let go onside the Federal Courthouse in Midland Texas..we got paid a decent amount to remove them..over 90 still kickin, we feed and water em, took em back to the marathon valley and caught a mess of coyotes with em..a wild coyote caught in a leg trap,lured by the rabbits, will chew his leg off to free himself.
Anonymous
January 29, 2016 at 9:09 pm
don’t get your panties in a wad!
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January 30, 2016 at 2:10 pm
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February 7, 2016 at 7:34 pm
Looks like a mule eating sawbriers, grinned like a Cheshire cat, raining cats and dogs, month of sundays, once in a blue moon, full as a tick, quit year piddlin’, straighten up and fly right, and meaner than a junkyard dog.
pam
February 8, 2016 at 9:36 am
does anyone know what this saying means”
I always look my dried beans before washing them
Carl
February 12, 2016 at 6:57 pm
I live in Louisiana and always heard it as steppin’ in high cotton, but it could be a local thing here. “He don’t fart, he blossums.” , or “He don’t crap, he candies.” is used to describe folks who think they are better than others.
Jane
February 19, 2016 at 11:19 pm
I am really upset and frustrated about your “bonus” on the phrase ‘Bless Your Heart” only because it’s about the thousandth time I have heard a Yankee get this wrong. We all said bless your heart growing up and said it a lot. We said it out of superstition. If we said something critical about someone that we had no ill will towards, we would quickly add a bless your heart to soften yes but underlying it was to prevent something bad from happening to the other person or you (I think ultimately because we were taught to be humble under God and no make a pronouncement like that could bring bad energy on your or them. To say Bless his heart meant you make a criticism butbthatbyiubdonso with compassion. Because of this, because 90% of the time we say and use the expression for GOOD, using it in a contrary way is particularly effective. So when someone says “bless your heart” in a critical way with sarcasm it has extra jab because it is usually for good so enhances the power of sarcasm. The really sad thing is I no longer say this beautiful expression for good anymore because there has been such erroneous and bad press about southerners that I am self conscious using my own language of my upbringing. Just like sadly how I lost (though I’m trying to regain) my lilting Southern accent because I didn’t. Want people tontjonknInwas stupid. I don’t say Bless her heart” anymore because I am scared someone will think in being sarcastic when i actually meant it with love…
Jane
February 19, 2016 at 11:24 pm
I am really upset and frustrated about your “bonus” on the phrase ‘Bless Your Heart” only because it’s about the thousandth time I have heard a Yankee get this wrong. We all said bless your heart growing up and said it a lot. We said it in part out of superstition. — If we said something critical about someone that we had no ill will towards, we would quickly add a ‘bless your heart’ to soften The impact yes and also underlying it was the desire to prevent something bad from happening to the other person or you (I think ultimately because we were taught to be humble under God and not make a pronouncement like that as it could bring bad energy on you or them. Blessing removed the potential factor of cursing someone or yourself. To say Bless his heart meant you make a criticism of the person but that you also do so with –compassion–. Because of this, because 90% of the time we say and use the expression for GOOD, using it in a contrary way is particularly effective. So when someone says “bless your heart” in a critical way with sarcasm it has extra jab —because— it is usually used for such good and with kind intentions. so it enhances the power of sarcasm in contrast. The really sad thing is that I no longer say this beautiful expression for good anymore because there has been such erroneous and bad press about southerners that I am self conscious using my own language of my upbringing. Just like sadly how I lost (though I’m trying to regain) my lilting Southern accent because I didn’t, want people to thinknI was stupid, I don’t say Bless her heart” anymore because I am scared someone will think I’m being sarcastic when i actually meant it with love…
Linda Gattis
February 28, 2016 at 11:41 am
I’m from Alabama. I’ve always heard–and said “Happy as walking in tall cotton” (You don’t have to bend over as far to pick “tall cotton” as you do to pick “short cotton”.)
Anonymous
February 28, 2016 at 8:52 pm
“You’re spreading out like a weeks washing”! My dad, who is 80, always said this to me when I hogged too much of our bingo table.
Amber Umbaugh
February 28, 2016 at 8:54 pm
“You’re spreading out like a weeks washing”! My dad, who is 80, always said this to me when I hogged too much of our bingo table.
Gayle R-S
March 5, 2016 at 10:10 pm
My mom always said useless as tits on a boar, and I thought she was saying “board”. Had a funny picture in my mind until I heard ” boar HOG”, Liked it better the first way, really useless! Slower than molasses in January. Butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth. The color “Sh*t-muckle dun.” Uglier than homemade sin. Stingy, “high-pockets.” Rainin’ like a cow pissin’ on a flat rock. High water pants, too short in the leg. Light in the loafers, gay. Panty-waist, timid. Hotter than a two-dollar pistol. No better than she oughta be. Like a goose, wakes up in a new world every day. My father-in-law called biscuit gravy of the correct thickness “hillside” because it wouldn’t run off, even at a steep angle. Treatin’ somebody like a red-headed step-child. I reckon that’s all for now.
Anonymous
March 6, 2016 at 1:58 am
My uncle always says, “Faster than a cat can lick its a$$.” And as everyone knows, that’s pretty d@mn fast.
Ron Collins
March 6, 2016 at 6:55 am
I’ve lived in Mississippi all my life and you will NEVER hear me say # 10. You WILL always hear me say HOTTY TODDY !!!
Anonymous
March 12, 2016 at 7:53 am
I was born and raised in SC and growing up my mama would say “and if a frog had wings it wouldn’t bump it’s butt” or “want it one hand, crap in the other and see which fills up faster”. I also heard, “he/she has a mug only a mother could love”. Heard “cute as a button” a lot or “happier than a pig in mud”. And if you were cursing, someone would ask, “you kiss your mama with that mouth??”
michelle
March 19, 2016 at 5:09 am
I am 57 yrs. old, and have been looking for ANY info, on an odd saying that my Grandma used to say. She was from either Kentucky, or Tennessee, not sure which. The saying was,
“Like a puke on a foam-bucket”. Meant to describe someone, or even an animal, that is overly timid, “sissified”, a “fop”.
Please Help??!!! Thank You,
Michelle
michelle
March 19, 2016 at 5:16 am
PLEASE, if anyone has ANY knowledge, of “Puke on a foam-bucket”, Please let me know. I’ve been searching for ANYTHING on this old saying for DECADES, most of my adult Life!! Thanks!!!
Sam
March 30, 2016 at 12:24 pm
“busier than a one legged cat in a a litter box”
Cyndi Lou
March 30, 2016 at 1:00 pm
#1 is actually “shittin in tall cotton”, instead of “livin in high cotton”. LOL
After eating too much:
-I’d feel better if I could puke over a 40 acre field
-I’m stuffed like a fat tick on a dog’s butt
When you just don’t feel very good:
-I feel like I was et by a coyote and shit off a cliff.
When she’s butt ugly:
-She fell out the ugly tree and didn’t miss a single branch.
When you’re really really hungry:
MY innards are eatin themselves.
So hungry I could eat a horse, puke it up and eat it again.
And this nasty one my ex ol man use to say:
I’m so hungry I could eat the ass out of a menstratin possum! (Any wonder he’s my ex???? LOL)
And then there’s:
-Well bless your pea pickin little heart.
-Don’t write a check your butt ain’t big enough to caah.
-Well I swanney!!
-Well he fell in a bucket of sh’t and came out smellin like a rose.
-And if sh’t were applebutter, he’d never go hungry.
-You’re full of sh’t as a Christmas turkey. (Never understood that one.)
-MY azz would make her a good Sunday face.
-Are you sh*ttin me?
Followed by:
– NO I wouldn’t sh’t you. You’re my favorite turn.
There are sooooo many more I can’t think of right off!
We Southerners love our colorful language!!
Cyndi Lou
March 30, 2016 at 1:07 pm
LOL that’s suppose to be “favorite TURD”.
Cyndi Lou
March 30, 2016 at 1:46 pm
When youre broke or just very poor:
-Ain’t got a pot to p*ss in or a window to throw it out of.
-Poor as a church mouse.
-Can’t afford to pay attention.
When she’s real dumb:
-she ain’t got the brains God gave a Billy goat.
– She’s dumber’n a box o’ rocks.
When it’s really hot:
-I’m sweatin like a wh*re in church.
When someone is very anxious or stressed:
-He’s wound tighter’n a 8 day clock.
When she’s really mad
– She’s havin a conniption.
-She’s havin a hissy fit.
When aomeone asks if you’re having a good say:
I’m fair to middlin, but I’ll let ya know if I get there.
When you’re getting after your child:
-I’m fixin to paint your back door red.
-I’m gonna jerk a knot in your tail.
And as my Granny use to say:
-I’m gonna cloud up and rain all over you and you’ll be walkin home in the mud.
I could so this all day! LOL
michelle
April 11, 2016 at 12:08 am
I heard a good one, from believe it or not, the cable repair man. He was a young guy, and this was what he said,” I wouldn’t piss in his left ear if his BRAIN was on fire!” (Someone that you REALLY DON’T like.) I BURST out laughing!
Andrew
April 25, 2016 at 12:54 pm
A lot of these I’ve heard some I haven’t but I didn’t read all the comments but my dad would always say that me and my brother could warp a Steeley ball meaning we could break any thing and my aunt would always say shed box our ears if we got out of hand but most the time she was just joking but pretty much meant we’d get a spanking if we didn’t stop whatever we were doing there’s a whole bunch of those old expressions even I find myself using
Ann
April 28, 2016 at 11:30 am
Nervous as a whore in church. ~South Georgia
Ray Marler
May 8, 2016 at 8:18 pm
How about some good old Aussie sayings.
Flat out like a Lizzard drinking.
As fast as a rat up a drain pipe.
As useless as an ashtray on a motorbike.
As useless a a one legged man in an arse kicking competition.
I am that hungry i could eat the arse out of a low flying duck.
Just a few.
.
Jay
May 14, 2016 at 6:15 am
My mom was born and raised in the north …..Indiana …..and my dad was born and raised in the south North Carolina And my mom had as many cute sayings and phrases as my dad did growing up southern. One of my moms favorite of my dad was if she thought he was being stubborn……Oh you would argue with a sign post and take the wrong way home……but my mom was very well educated and a proper woman and only said them when she got upset greatly about something and she seemed at times had more funny ones that made me laugh more than my dad did…..but I think I laughed because she knew them from growing up and usually only said them when she was mad or upset……my dad didn’t seem to give a flip to much about sayings even though he was southern and boy oh boy was he southern…..lol….I remember one time after he and my mom were first married and my mom was at home taking care of my older sister as a baby my dad went to work one morning and he told my mom to get the spider out of the refrigerator. So my mom unloads the refrigerator of everything including the “frying pan” lol but doesn’t find any spider…..eight legged insect to her ….lol…..next morning dad gets something out of the fridge sees the spider again….frying pan …..lol tells my mom the spider is still in the fridge and would she mind cleaning it out…..I guess my mom used bacon grease for something so she says she was an awesome northern cook make collard greens that would make your mouth water……she hated grits though but I love me……anyhow Deja vu all over again takes everything out of fridge cleans top to bottom sees no spider……eight legged insect……dad comes home……calls mom by name with a little louder voice……I thought I asked you to clean that spider out of the fridge…..? Mom pretty upset now with raised voice now…….mom was a Christian woman and she didn’t cuss but when she was mad she could say Dad Blamed to make you think twice about doing something different than what she wanted you to. …..and she called my dad by his first and last name and ought oh…..it’s game on now she calls home by his first and last name and says I HAVE CLEANED THIS DAD BLAMED REDRIGERATOR TWICE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM AND IF YOU SEE A DAD BLAMED SPIDER IN THIS FRIDGE RIGHT NOW THEN YOU BETTER COME SHOW ME…….he goes to the fridge points at the frying pan as my mom knows it spider as my dad knows it and says there right there and my mom says THAT……? that’s a frying pan……my dad says we…..meaning southern folk at least his did I guess call it a spider……..well I guess mom won that because I grew up calling it a frying pan…..lol…..they told that at some point every now and then it would come up and it seemed like it was more cute and funnier every time I heard it…..so I don’t know……my mom was herself from the north with her sayings my dad was from the south and himself with his sayings I had no choice in the matter I had relatives from the north and south I loved going and visiting the ones in the south but I love me all north and south they are people and good people and each had their own sayings and culture they grew up with. They had nothing to do with how or where they grew up the southern relatives all loved my mom dearly and kidded my dad saying how’d you fine such a fine girl……and my mom who grew up in the north loved the southern relatives dearly…….and to me that’s pretty much all it is…….different regions different culture ……..my grandmother lived in the north all her life and oh my could she cook her cooking would make a stuffed hog hungry……and she always said…….well bless her heart or your heart…….hmmmmm…….I’m so confused……..guess that’s what happens when the north and south mix……lol
marji
May 21, 2016 at 3:54 am
I grew up in Michigan and I’m from the country and heard most of these sayins growing up. Might be a damn Yankee but I think it’s a country thing not just Southern. Heard quite a few more than is on here. Lived here all my life as well as my family.
Rik
May 23, 2016 at 5:02 pm
Have lived in the South most of my adult life..South and Central Fl. Big difference between S, Fl. and Central Fl…… Like night and day..However lived in Tennessee for a while because Yankee parents wanted me to go to a good Methodist college where the boys were all pure and good. THAT alone is good for a laugh. Some of my favorite sayings are : Nervous as a cat in a roomful of rockers”, “He’ll last about as long as Pat stayed in the Army” if something is really big it’s “Bigger n’ Shit’, and one of my favorites for someone who has bathroom problems is “you should be able to shit like a pet coon” Learned all this in East Tenn. Go Vols!!!!
Matt
May 25, 2016 at 5:59 pm
Southerners. We move down here not because of you people but because of the great weather, haha. From a lot of these posts, it seems like you have your own set of politically correct language under the guise of religion. Here is a saying from the North that you might not have heard before. “Only Christian on Sunday”
William Hamilton
May 27, 2016 at 10:24 am
“it dont make me no never mind” is something that stuck with me from childhood…I know what it means but I cant parse it or explain it
Anonymous
May 28, 2016 at 10:06 am
Madder than a cat on a hot tin roof. Cut it off – or – Cut it on.
Anonymous
June 9, 2016 at 1:06 pm
We would say “That is useless as tits on a Boar Hog” !
poultrygirl
June 10, 2016 at 8:22 pm
I was going to say what Anonymous said about “cutting the lights off or on.” My grandmother from Dallas used to think that was so funny when I said it. (I am from N.C.). My other grandmother used to say “you are gonna catch a mule disease” when something was dirty or grimy, or when you didn’t wash your hands before you ate. Or when you didn’t say the blessing before you ate, she would say “you’ll get the colic.” My daddy always said when someone wasn’t a good shot with a gun, that they “couldn’t hit the back side of a barn.” The thing about over yonder that confuses yankees is that it could mean across the room or 6 miles down the road!
Buddy Calyton
June 23, 2016 at 8:54 am
I live in Savannah, Georgia and hear “bless his/her heart” about five hundred times daily! I was born in Savannah and was taught that I dont have to be “hateful” I can just say “bless your heart!’ Lol!
Fredda Shutes
June 23, 2016 at 9:33 pm
When I was growing up in GA any kind of soft drink was referred to as a coke. But a coca-cola was a co-cola.
My daddy used to say “the world is going to hell in a hand basket” when something bad happened.
If we said bad words we would get our mouths washed out with soap.
Marian
June 24, 2016 at 1:54 pm
I,m from sc. We say all of the above, plus ” eating high up on the hog” when you have a really nice meal.
Stella
July 2, 2016 at 3:43 pm
I’m from northwest IL and hear all of these daily, have all my life. I think it’s more country than south
Stella
July 2, 2016 at 3:49 pm
Here’s a couple from my grandma. I ain’t seen you in a month a sundays. Only shit and sugar melt in the rain, and you ain’t sugar. Also it’s colder than a well-diggers ass, or colder than a witch’s tit in a brass bra. Also, don’t get your tit in the wringer, or don’t get your undies in a bunch. This was a fun article, love the comments
Bri
July 9, 2016 at 6:58 pm
Let’s not forget “Make like a horse turd and hit the trail.” “Sounds like a race horse pissin’ on a flat rock.” (usually pertaining to heavy rain) and “He was madder than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rockin’ chairs” :3
Bri
July 9, 2016 at 6:59 pm
From Kentucky btw
Mardy
August 22, 2016 at 1:47 am
From Ky, coke is coke, Dr Pepper is Dr Pepper, Pepsi is not OK to substitute, too sweet, Sprite is Sprite and Ect. Many enjoy Mountain Dew, don’t know why, guess they enjoy it. Forgot RC Cola, my sister was addicted to it, she got the monky off her back eventually.
Mardy
August 22, 2016 at 1:56 am
I heard that often. My mothers one and only Dirty joke was city cousin and country cousin on double date, country cousin said everything her city cuz said. City cousin “it’s so hot I am about to Prespire” Country, it’s so hot I’m about to piss fire. Mommy was a good girl.
Lil Alice Bluegown
August 26, 2016 at 10:35 am
Oh, that is a hoot!
Hank
September 18, 2016 at 10:20 am
And when it’s not good.. “Taste like the north end of a south bound hog”
Tamara De La Cruz
October 13, 2016 at 11:18 pm
My friend says “Well that’s a chunk of change.” when she thinks something someone said was a load of crap. She also says “that’ll go over like a turd in a punch bowl.” hahahahahaha
MegUSN1
October 17, 2016 at 11:43 am
I’m from SE Alabama…right above the AL/FL near Dothan, AL and I’ve never heard anyone refer to Florida as “up north”.
MegUSN1
October 17, 2016 at 11:49 am
I’m from SE Alabama near Dothan and I’ve never heard the expression at all, except on the Internet. I have heard “Bullfrog” as Smith Donaldson posted.
MegUSN1
October 17, 2016 at 11:57 am
Oh man, I miss peanuts in coke…back when the vending machine still dispensed real glass bottles. I never put peanuts in RC Cola, but just Coke. And my great granddaddy always gave us moon pies and we ate them while drinking an RC Cola. I do miss eating boiled peanuts and real Brunswick stew from SE Alabama. And not cajun boiled peanuts either…we never grew up with that…just plain boiled peanuts with water/salt.
MegUSN1
October 17, 2016 at 12:10 pm
“Cotton pickin'” may have come from slavery days, but it wasn’t just slaves that were picking cotton even back in the slavery era, especially in Alabama. My family grew up picking cotton and they were poor white farmers. History books teach that most Southern whites were rich plantation slave owners, but this simply isn’t true. Like today, there were a lot of poor white “country” folks in Alabama and Mississippi. A lot of the Southern expressions come from Scottish/Irish ancestry and not slavery. I will say that a lot of Southern foods, however, do come from slavery.
MegUSN1
October 17, 2016 at 12:15 pm
Dana, you and I must be from near the same parts of Alabama because I couldn’t relate to some of the other Alabamian posters on here. Everything in your post is exactly what I grew up saying and hearing while living in SE Alabama (near Dothan, but on GA/AL state line). And, I agree that “rode hard and put up wet” is usually referred to a woman that’s “easy”. I’ve also heard it used in the context of someone that’s lived a hard life.
No one has mentioned how boys are nicknamed “Bubba” and girls are nicknamed “Cooter”, which I know also has a double meaning.
James
January 10, 2017 at 8:58 am
I heard most of these lines, all except “high cotton”, growing up in Seattle. It had more to do I think, with parents, grandparents and great aunts/uncles who all farmed.
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DeepSpring
March 30, 2017 at 5:15 pm
“Southerners don’t pay attention to history.”??? You don’t know jack squat!
DeepSpring
March 30, 2017 at 5:20 pm
Exactly!
emma
April 4, 2017 at 10:21 am
I agree
David Tidwell
April 11, 2017 at 1:33 am
Robert Lee nice name my youngest son is named Robert Lee Here in N.E Texas, it’s Slicker than Owl Shit. LOL if I ever saw Owl shit I didn’t know I but it must slick.
David
David Tidwell
April 11, 2017 at 1:36 am
I have heard that saying a lot They say it in N.e Texas
David Tidwell
April 11, 2017 at 1:47 am
I always heard As busy as a cat on a tin roof trying to cover up sh_t
David Tidwell
April 11, 2017 at 1:53 am
I always heard As busy as a cat on a tin roof trying to cover up sh_t
David Tidwell
April 11, 2017 at 1:56 am
She don’t know whether to shit or go blind
David Tidwell
April 11, 2017 at 1:58 am
I’ve heard that
Davd malbuff
April 22, 2017 at 8:06 pm
One step back from “I’m fixin’ to” is “I’ll get to that directly.” It confounds those from above Mason and Dixon, who think it indicates procrastination. I’ve been known to say, “My daddy caught me procrastinatin’ once…. told me I’d go blind.”
Clewis
April 25, 2017 at 1:15 pm
My Dad favorite was “you don’t know shit from shinola”
Kenneth Edgar Bernard
May 18, 2017 at 10:28 pm
Listen here you bloody southern morons y’all mad cuz y’all lost the civil war hell y’all had the great General Robert E Lee I’m a bloody yankee I’m proud of being a yank how battles can y’all name that y’all won during the American civil war I got a minute I can wait….. Dumbasses and fuck y’all who going to be correcting my grammar southern hospitality my fucking ass
Derek
August 3, 2017 at 5:47 pm
I’m fixin ta’ quit this son-uva-bitch right na’! The strike, Southern style.
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Arivor
September 21, 2017 at 12:10 pm
It’s not just souther women who use “well bless your heart.” I may when replying a woman post… just not to another southern girl, cause I’ll be hearing “Oh Hell No! then just fixin to witness a conniption… just sayin’
Arivor
September 21, 2017 at 12:24 pm
Well bless you heart, I’m not going to be influenced by a comedian. If you understand the message I’m trying to get across, good… message delivered.
Arivor
September 21, 2017 at 12:26 pm
Really? I can’t go back and correct my spelling mistakes… so embarrassing…
canjun nick
October 11, 2017 at 3:30 pm
yankee as useful as tits on a boar
canjun nick
October 11, 2017 at 3:32 pm
New Orleans have enough liberals
SwampWitch
October 19, 2017 at 2:44 am
Hey, Kajun!
I’m in Louisiana, also lived in Scotland during the 70s oil boom! Inverness area, what about you? Hell, we might’ve known each other!
Nick
November 24, 2017 at 8:49 pm
“I am an intelligent person”. Said no intelligent person ever…
Will Conners
January 27, 2018 at 7:38 am
1) Makin more noise than an old jack in a tin barn
2)Uglier than a pimple on a possum’ass
3)Uglier than an ole mule eatin saw briers
4)Throw money up a hogs ass and holler suey
5)Greener (dumb) than goose shit
6)She’s so tight(virgin) she squeaks when she walks
7)Squeeze old Abe (penny)till he cries (a stingy person )
8)Heaven’s to Betsy
9)Well rat’s spit
10)Well Hell’s Bells
11)Cuter than a bug’s ear
12 It’s hotter than hell in a bucket
13 It’s so hot a lizard would jump from a frying pan into the fire to use the shade of the skillet
14)Hotter than a June bride in a feather bed
15)Tighter than a mouse’s ear
16)Shit eatin grin
17) I gotta pee lie a ten Dicked Dragon
18)I gotta pee like a Russian race horse
19)Dumber than a bag full of hammers
20) She’s so ugly I wouldn’t touch her with a ten foot pole
21)She’s so ugly she’s got bruises from getting hit by ten foot poles
22)Happier than a three balled cat
23)She/he would worry the brass horns off a Billy goat
24)Prettier than a prized sow washed in butter milk
25)Busier than a one eyed cat watchin two Gopher holes
26)Busier than a three legged cat burying a turd
27)He/she is so dumb He/she couldn’t stick their finger up their ass even if it was buttered
28)Uglier than a mud fence
29) He couldn’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag
30)Higher than a hawk’s nest (something that is expensive)
31)Snowing to beat 49
32)Raining cats and dogs
33)Reckless as bull in a china shop
34)He/she is so skinny you couldn’t hit him/her with a hand full of rice
35)Useless as a screen door on a submarine
moreshermanplease
February 6, 2018 at 11:04 pm
I must be a damn southerner. Because I was born and raised in the Southern United States and constantly tell the hicks of the south how terrible they are.
Robin
February 25, 2018 at 10:09 am
I say “Bless your Heart” all the time. In no way do I mean it in an ugly way. Completely opposite actually. I think it all depends on how you say it.
Vernon
March 4, 2018 at 4:16 pm
I’m from Tennessee,and I don’t think bless your little heart “has anything to do with calling someone stupid.my mom and grandma said it all the time. I say it a lot to . I always figured it meant ain’t he cute’
dixiedragon
March 6, 2018 at 2:46 am
Bless his heart can be either a nice thing … the fireman helps you cross the road — Bless your heart, honey; he’s wrapped around her little finger “Bless his heart (he doesn’t know what hit him) – it’s ALL in the inflection and the way it’s posed a statement or a question … statement and inflection BLESS your heart is good — question and inflection bless you HEART? is bad … We may be Southern be we DO have rules for our “southern” grammar.
dixiedragon
March 6, 2018 at 2:59 am
Trust me … Alabama born and lived in GA for 40 years — it can be good OR bad depends on how it’s used … see above but if it’s bless his HEART? like a question it’s probably bad LOL
dixiedragon
March 6, 2018 at 4:06 am
One of my favorites is “well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit” an expression of astonishment usually upon learning good news, as in “Hey Dad I was accepted at Duke” Dad: “Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit” …. I also like “quit bein’ ugly” meaning behave yourself …. Slap my head and call me silly another one I like .. and it does not mean hit me .. it means I have overlooked something SO obvious that you might as well Slap my head and call me silly …. and finally “act like you got some raising’!” Quit misbehaving! Use the manners you were taught. What you do reflects on the whole family so not only are you responsible for your bad acts, you whole family is responsible … so dammit act like you got some raisin’ or act like you got some bringin’ up …. Show some responsibility? Wonder who thought of that one?
Tracy Godwin
May 14, 2018 at 9:07 am
Here in my little neck of the woods in Florida. Bless your heart has a double meaning also. It could be a passive aggressive insult or it could be a genuine term of endearment depending on who it is and what it pertains to. And it’s still used quite often here but more so or just as much we also use ain’t that special as well. Almost all the ones I’ve read here today I’ve heard at one point or another used. the ones I just stated are just the ones that I’ve used most often as well as my family and close friends .
A. Gentleman
May 22, 2018 at 10:41 am
My advice, as a Celtic Brit, living in Japan would be to stay at home Mr. Bernard, since if one were to speak to folks in the South like that, you might make it home with the Kenneth and the Bernard, but you’d probably have had the Edgar whooped out of your offensive butt. Here in Japan, you’d just be ignored, as one ignores a petulant child. In my country, you’d get the holy crap beaten out of you – and that’s just England. I doubt your own mother (I’m being kind here and presuming you know who that is) would recognize you if you tried it in Wales or Ireland. If you mouthed off like that in Scotland, we’d be lucky to find your bones.
A. Gentleman
May 22, 2018 at 10:58 am
“exceptable”? Good grief!
Delta Dawn
June 28, 2018 at 6:30 pm
I am from Mississippi and my mama taught my sisters and I to be kind and gracious. So some of y’all’s comments to the northerners is showing who attended cotillion and who did not. A potty mouth is always bad manners no matter where you are from. Bless his/her heart is still used but I have never used it in a mean way and it should not be stated that we use in a bad way. Just because one or two people used it in a bad way does not mean everyone does that. Also The title mentioned that the sayings are stupid and I find that these sayings may be unusual or even odd sounding for those that have never heard them but to say they are stupid is wrong and insulting.
Bill Thomas
June 30, 2018 at 10:01 pm
I heard that in basic training in 1956. It was a sergeant’s comment on a trainee doing push-ups.
tseliot
July 1, 2018 at 8:18 am
Well North Florida is Southern and South Florida is some other country.
tseliot
July 1, 2018 at 8:25 am
North Florida and I still do it. Ordered a “hotdog and a coke” from Costco. I knew it’s the cups you fill at the fountain yourself. The lady said we only have Pepsi products. I said I just mean a hotdog and a soda. The fact I had to translate means she was from someplace else. Say “soda water” around here and you will definitely give that away.
Joseph Weaver
July 27, 2018 at 6:45 pm
well, for all intent and purpose, I was just a yank, who enlisted in the army back in 1976, all army forts in the south are named after good generals and not so good generals. I lived at fort Gordon Georgia, got called yank by cigar smoking taxi drivers. I loved it. I also loved making love to the stripper in augusta named cupcake. she said she liked my northern accent….go figure,,,,southern women have awesome pussy.
Joseph Weaver
July 27, 2018 at 6:49 pm
not a kid of 18, who watched his older brother get drafted in 1968, and never come home again. he wasn’t from the south, he was a Philadelphia boy….we all suffered in the civil war, but many wars after that proved, we were still americans, it just took a little while for the kkk to realize blacks deserved an education.
Joseph Weaver
July 27, 2018 at 6:53 pm
I loved the south as a northern boy who enlisted. I would have spent my days there, but uncle Sam sent me to Europe for 2.5 years….at the end after all that military shit, I didn’t know if I was coming or going.
Joseph Weaver
July 27, 2018 at 6:56 pm
well whats Miami….get your shit together and leave the white boys alone….its a different day, and minorities are taking over every major city in the U.S.
Joseph Weaver
July 27, 2018 at 6:58 pm
and a reb is one who once he visits the north and eats some fine food, he won’t go home. one thing about us northeners, we still hate a southern accent, so lame.
Joseph Weaver
July 27, 2018 at 7:01 pm
who cares about the queen, and you are probably as much a doctor, as, I am a politician, although it would fit….bullshit goes, as bullshit is.
David
August 8, 2018 at 2:19 pm
@winder50: And Pepsi was ALSO “born” in the South. New Bern, North Carolina, to be exact.
David
August 8, 2018 at 2:22 pm
(This space is where my above comment should have been (and, as such, will also be (albeit repeated):
@winder50: And Pepsi was ALSO “born” in the South. New Bern, North Carolina, to be exact.
Stepahnie
August 15, 2018 at 11:27 am
My grandmother uses bless your/her/him/ their heart about 100 times a day. But she uses it as a complament, bless her heart!
Alex
August 22, 2018 at 8:34 am
What conceit. There’s is nothing “ridiculous” about these sayings, they’re simply picturesque. Anybody who can read without moving their lips, (or isn’t a product of an overly liberal education), should have no trouble gathering their meaning. You don’t need to be southern to understand them provided you speak English and aren’t thick as mud.
Carla Neely
August 29, 2018 at 6:47 am
I agree that’s how I’ve always heard it to and it still is much alive here in greenville south carolina also neighbor.
Robbie
September 5, 2018 at 4:50 pm
Two from GA. 1. Grits = Georgia ice cream, and 2. Georgia overdrive = putting a big truck in neutral to go down a hill faster without “mashing” the throttle. Doing this probably means your light “bub” ain’t burning too bright and almost always done after saying on the CB “Hey y’all watch this”! Great thred read the whole thing recovering from back surgery. Unfortunately there are some on here that just don’t get it. But as all of y’all that do know, “If you have to explain it, they wouldn’t understand anyway”! Born and raised and still here Savannah GA.
Sara Anglin
October 5, 2018 at 8:44 pm
I love every last word of the Southern dialect. It is music to my Southern ears. Anyone who doesn’t or makes fun of it can take a hike.
Peter
October 12, 2018 at 6:12 pm
Move the pork
Lori Hass Vess
October 24, 2018 at 12:35 pm
I think if y’all don’t understand the way we talk down here in God’s country…
I reckon youns outta stay up yonder… Bless your hearts!
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Elaine Alexander
February 16, 2019 at 3:45 pm
Sorry, this NC born and bred girl hears Bless Her Heart all the time. It’s just a great saying that is all about context. It can truly mean bless her heart in sympathy or it could mean a passive aggressive put down.
jackieo
February 23, 2019 at 3:18 pm
Now I always heard it was tits on a bullfrog lol
jackieo
February 24, 2019 at 2:06 am
Thank u meg!! Im from Atlanta nobody has ever said boar hog or bull hog 😂😂 they never heard it right. Its bullfrog! 💪 But hearing that widespread telephone game is a trip
jackieo
February 24, 2019 at 2:13 am
Agreed. Georgia girl here, too.
Jackieo
February 24, 2019 at 2:14 am
Rainshine. My sister and i thought we made it up as kids
Jackieo
February 24, 2019 at 2:22 am
I heard one legged Indian in an asskicking contest. But then my fav part of Braves Games at Fulton County Stadium was watching anything the Indian in the Teepee platform in the outfield stands did. I loved that as a kid. Only time we ever got to drink those barrel sugary drinks
Also asshole that said waitress was a dimwhit. Well dipshit, if you DONT ask if i will deign for pepsi, you get run outta town on a rail. Everybody fucking knows that. No way in hell ANYONE assumes pepsi is an acceptable substitute. Most will choose dr pepper or somthing else to that standard line.
And yawn to everybody fascinated by the highly skilled nuances of female interaction. Level up your game. Its second nature and pretty pathetic if you cant keep up . But, it was So great you tried honey! Its Rude to avert your eyes per the nyc person saying a grunt is all they do to acknowledge someone.
Thats just poor manners. Politeness costs you nothing. In the south we learn not to mumble, to addess our elders and converse with adults from a young age. But u go ahead with your grunt. Guess I’ll just embarrass the hell out of you honey when I just clear my throat say it again louder with the sweetest smile and a little extra twang as if you couldn’t hear me just to make you uncomfortable at your own pathetic social skills. Love you 😘
Jackieo
February 24, 2019 at 2:27 am
“When you die and you’re on your way to heaven you’ll have to stop and change planes in Atlanta”
Rarer than hens teeth someone said-yes I’ve heard that
I am laughing at that cute contributing Yankee who tried saying that our phrases were similar to them in the north saying… well he said yins.
Believe someone has corrected him that is not actually a geographical thing my German and Polish grandparents that lived in Ohio and Maryland would say “when yoons comin to visit” (basically you-ins’ with a lil German Polish cut off to it
Can we have all sorts of different types of white trash country mountain folk rednecks Hitch trailer trash I think the lowest insult you could give a girl basically that you think is a skank is say that she’s a two dollar dirt road whore (when talking about her this isn’t something you would say to her this isnt Brooklyn lol)
Jackieo
February 24, 2019 at 2:31 am
Well then u if you were less of a moron, mocking robert e lee. You MIGHT know, he and Ulysses S. Grant (commanding general of the union army at the end of the war in case you didn’t know) were classmates at West Point together yeah we’re so fucking uneducated down here dumbass. Play I don’t think either side wants to claim you but sounds like you have a little inferiority chip on your shoulder why don’t you take care that honey and stop trying to bother the rest of us with your struggles. That would also be considered rude in the south to be that fucking self absorbed don’t think anybody wants to hear all your bullshit 😂
Jackieo
February 24, 2019 at 2:34 am
Yaaah it is, nobody said that was the front line of the ward and by the way those shifted a lot and were both north and south of the Mason-Dixon line but yes that is the line that separates the northern states from the southern states just above Maryland which is freaking bizarre because most everybody just considers it Virginia.
A liberal why don’t you take your condescending bullshit and move along before you embarrass yourself anymore.
Then as you’re walking way (if we were in real life) I would turn to someone say bless his heart. Sounding very sincere but everyone would know it was a pity that you’re so fucking stupid you only get in barest because you were rude to say shit like l we can be polite and still make you cry without ever raising our voices
Jackieo
February 24, 2019 at 2:35 am
Exactly!!!!!
Red
June 27, 2019 at 11:37 pm
They’re regionalisms, though. They’re expressive of a specific culture with its own history, climate, lore, and so on. To those unacquainted with this culture, the metaphorical references may be as unfamiliar or arcane as Cockney rhyming slang. So not everyone can automatically glean their meaning. Plus, this kind of linguistic anthropology is pretty fun.
Red
June 27, 2019 at 11:46 pm
Plus, “catawampus” or “cattywampus” is a word unto itself, and many non-Southerners will be unable to figure out what the hell it means.
Don’t even get me started on how a non-equestrian would interpret “rode hard and put up wet.”
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Penny
July 20, 2019 at 12:55 pm
What does it mean when someone from the south invites you over for a meal and they tell you to dike in?
Penny
July 20, 2019 at 1:00 pm
My daddy’s favorite sang was ” For crying out loud”
DB
August 1, 2019 at 10:25 pm
LOL whoever thinks “bless your heart” isn’t used in the south anymore is wrong. Bless their hearts, they’ve probably never lived here.
rob
August 7, 2019 at 7:05 pm
Nor have I, I am from North Florida, which some folks call LA, for lower Alabama. The panhandle has more in common with Alabama than it does with the rest of Florida.
rob
August 7, 2019 at 7:07 pm
Right, the further north you go in Florida, the more Southern it gets.
Mike
August 10, 2019 at 12:42 am
“Don’t you know” or “I’m just say’n”
lisa gleaton
August 14, 2019 at 1:49 pm
I didn’t know the north had fine food. Just sayin’.
lisa gleaton
August 14, 2019 at 2:00 pm
I have to take the side of the waitress. Heaven forbid she assume Pepsi would be okay. I would personally complain to someone if a server took it for granted that Pepsi was okay because they don’t serve Coke products. Where I’m from, Pepsi is for people who don’t know any better. If someone asks for Pepsi, they’re generally told that the only people around here that drink Pepsi must be yankees because Texans don’t drink that god awful stuff.
lisa gleaton
August 14, 2019 at 2:21 pm
Well put, Jackieo.
LuluBelle
February 16, 2020 at 11:49 pm
I lived in Washington state for four years, and every time I said “fixin’ to” they laughed. I grew up saying it, and didn’t realize it was a southern thing. Oh, and one time someone asked me for directions, and I pointed and said “you go down yonder a ways…” and everyone in the office thought that was the funniest thing. They never let me forget that one, lol.
D
February 18, 2020 at 9:46 pm
Please continue!
Tennesee Boy
February 26, 2020 at 11:23 pm
Atlanta is not the South
DePierce
April 5, 2020 at 6:15 am
Well bless your heart!
depierce
April 5, 2020 at 6:53 am
Well Miss Lisa, there are considerably fewer Waffle Houses up north and out west, it’s true. Guilty as charged.