This might entertain all you northerners and people from outside of the US. All of you other southerners please participate and give us your favorite or most unusual southern phrases. Everyone is welcome to comment or throw a new one in.
this isn't a saying per se, but nothing warms my heart more than being greeted with the term 'shug'. i remember spending a week up north and hearing it when i stopped to get gas on my return trip. a huge smile spread over my face and i knew i was home.
My 5th grade teacher was from Mississippi. When we needed to straighten the rows of desks, she would tell us that they were "as crooked as a dog's hind leg".
If the Creek Don't Rise
We’ll be there unless something out of our control stops us.” Unlike the United States Postal Service, whose motto proclaims “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night” will keep them from their routes, sometimes a Southern visit is thwarted by a rising creek or other unexpected bump in the road.
Quote by Adagio Granny put mud flaps on her green beans/
Hello Adagio
With all those sayings you have listed, you must be from the Deep South. Some I've heard before, but some you listed are new to me. Maybe you would be so kind as to relist them on one sheet and show the equivalent 'English' version. I've never lived down there, but I do enjoy listening to a person from there, talk.
The reason I'm so interested is that I've been working on a story that will be set in rural Mississippi. It occurred to me that if I was sure what some of the sayings meant, perhaps I might be able to work some of them into the story. That should add a level of realism, I'd think.
Thanks for posting them here. I enjoyed reading them.
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Well being that I'm a country as a turnip green....
I reckon I will sit a spell witcha
Whatcha know good? Diddly squat
Hold your horses! I'm madder than a wet hen!
I'm hangin in there like a hair on a biscuit
He was funnier than all get out
Get your panties out of a wad
Well fooooot (well shit)
Not sure if it's Southern but a friend of mine (Hawai'ian, but raised most of her life in Florida) calls all her female friends "Mama". As in, "Come over here for a spell, Mama Jen". And she's a solid twenty years my senior.
Grammie was Canadian but lived in SE Missouri, always did love hauling me all through the Deep South "to see the Americans" when I was a child. I therefore know that "well, bless your heart" is not a compliment.
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