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.
I'll start with an easy obvious one.
Bless your heart
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".
Loved that lady.
"insensitive prick!" – Danielle Algo
Houdoe en bedankt! (Southern Dutch)
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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.
Those hush puppies were hunkey dorey. I ate 'em lickety split.
Its better than recycled spittin' tobacco
More fur on it than an asparagus spear.
She's more knocked up than a rutabaga
Older in the tooth than an elephant's tusk
Marmalade is a quick fix when your bowels drip
If cotton is good enough for Jesus, then its good enough for Robt. E. Lee.
Granny put mud flaps on her green beans/
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)
Now we're cook'n with grease.
Any better there'd be two of me
finer than frog hair
fuller than a tick
Get the stink blown off you!
Let me put on the dog.
My cup runneth over.
To Honeydipped: To clarify for the others..Shug is pronounced as "Shoog", short for Sugar.
I'm so thirsty I'm farting dust
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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A Northern or Western person will say "I'd like to fuck you." A Southerner will say "I'd like to fuck y'all!!" lol
