SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK Down in the dirt: Someone is willing to roll up their sleeves and participate at an elemental level, getting dirty and playing...
SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK High Falutin’: A situation, attitude, or circumstance in which one party is putting on airs, acting high and mighty and making noises...
SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK Bite the bullet: Dating back to primitive medical conditions during the Civil War, the expression means to toughen up and endure the...
SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK Ain’t it a hoot: Related to “give a hoot” and “whoop and holler”… Something is a hoot if it is funny or...
Have a cake-happy Christmas By Laurie Triplette ldtriplette@aol.com SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK Scarce as hen’s teeth/scarcer than hen’s teeth: Nonexistent. About as likely to occur as...