Helpful Southernisms
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Loading ...Exclamations:
“Well, knock me down and steal muh teeth!”
“Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit.”
“Ahm fixin ta do that”
Threats:
“I’ll slap you so hard, your clothes will be outta style.”
“This’ll jar your preserves.”
“Don’t you be makin’ me open up uh can uh whup-ass on ya!”
Good Things/Compliments:
“Cute as a sack full of puppies”
“If things get any better, I may have to hire someone to help me enjoyit.”
“Gooder’n grits”
The Weather:
“It’s so dry, the trees are bribing the dogs.”
“It’s been hotter’n a goat’s butt in a pepper patch.”
Wintery roads are said to be “slicker’n otter snot”.
Descriptions:
A bothersome person is “like a booger that you can’t thump off.”
When something is bad then you say, “it ain’t no ‘count.”
If something is hard to do, it’s “like tryin’ ta herd cats”.
“He ran like his feet was on fire and his ass was catchin’.”
A hectic schedule keeps you “busier than a cat covering doodoo on a
marble floor”.
Insults:
“She’s uglier than homemade soap.”
“Your momma’s so fat, when she stepped up on the scale to be weighed, it said ‘To be continued’.”
“He fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.”
“Uglier than a lard bucket full of armpits.”
“The wheels are still turnin’, but the hamster’s dead”
Any insulting statement is always followed by “bless his/her heart”.
“She’s dumber’n a door knob, bless her heart.”
