Southern Sayings

[kiddiedoc]

The other day, someone in my office commented while it was sunny outside but yet raining that "The Devil was whipping his wife." Immediately, I realized the meaning of the nebulous chorus to "Cry In the Sun" by Better Than Ezra, which has always puzzled me.

Anyway, I thought this would be a good way to get "caught up" on some Southern sayings (especially since I work in a rural area and hear them all the time).

So, here's one more: "Six of one, half a dozen of the other" -- meaning that two options are about the same.

Now YOUR turn. . . .

 

[LadyinOrange]

"I just caught the book of him." - Meaning "I only gt a short glimpse".


"I don't care if it harelips the devil." - Meaning "I'm gonna do it no matter what."

 

[redneckdave]

More useless than hen sh_t on a pump handle

 

[#10_Ainge_#10]

Hotter than two rats screwin in a wool sock.

 

[surrealvol]

More than one way to skin a cat.

 

[surrealvol]

'Tween a rock and a hard place.

 

[milohimself]

Originally posted by surrealvol@Jul 13, 2005 10:18 AM
'Tween a rock and a hard place.

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I can't say that's southern, man... I hear it all the time even all the way up in Oreegun

 

[orange+white=heaven]

"Good Lord willin', and the creek don't rise"

basically, If I'm lucky

 

[volmanjr]

Light in the britches : a male person whos feminine side shows too much

 

[LadyinOrange]

Up "a certain" creek without a paddle.

 

[LadyinOrange]

My grandmother used to say things were "tighter than Old Dick's hatband".

 

[volmanjr]

"tighter than a tick on a hound" after eating too much supper

 

[BeltwayVol]

Colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra on Halloween Night.

 

[LadyinOrange]

Originally posted by BeltwayVol@Jul 13, 2005 9:03 PM
Colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra on Halloween Night.

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:blink:

 

[milohimself]

I remember this jem from a South Park where it breifly went into a Dukes of Hazzard-style car chase... The scene stops and a voice comes on.

"Looks like those boys are in more trouble than a june bug stuck in molasses. 'N it's pretty thick molasses, too."

 

[LadyinOrange]

As nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

 

[volmanjr]

like a duck on a junebug (fast or quickly)

 

[OWB]

Busy as a stump-tailed cow in fly time.

 

[volmanjr]

Busy as a 1 legged man in a butt kickin contest

 

[volmanjr]

he ain't the sharpest pencil in the box

 

[OWB]

Jeet (did ya eat?)

 

[volmanjr]

yonto(do you want to?)

 

[kiddiedoc]

Colder than a well-digger's balls

 

[iznasty1981]

its a "cow pissin on a flat rock" rain. =raining hard.


and


I was as f**ked up as a snake under a bushog! =I was screwed, regaurdless!

and

finer then frog hair split three ways! =I am fine.

 

[CrystalEHS07]

Shut the door...It's comin' in the winda's (windows, for those of you from the north. :laugh1: ) ! = There's a big storm coming.


~*Crystal*~