Totally Southern Expressions

[grengadgy]

"That dog don't hunt"

 

[Back Alley Gator]

War of Northern Aggression

As soon as I get all my chit in one sock...

 

[B52G8rAC]

My grandmother, who lived through Reconstruction, always referred to THE War as the "late unpleasantness." She also never used the Civil War Union president's name referring to him as "that man."

 

[grengadgy]

Knee-high to a grasshopper.

 

[Gulfstream]

Once in a blue moon.

Ole ETC "mayahad"...;) a number one song by that name back in the day.

 

[Fodderwing]

Ole ETC "mayahad"...;) a number one song by that name re back in the day.

ETC, a great real country singer!

 

[CaseyGator]

Y’all ain’t from ‘round here

More nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs

Sweatin’ more than a whore in church

 

[Fodderwing]

Y’all ain’t from ‘round here

More nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs

Sweatin’ more than a whore in church

Shakin' like a dwag schittin a peach seed.

 

[Frozen Gator]

"You'uns" better leave me alone if you know what's good for ya.

I feel lower than a mole in the Grand Canyon.

His luck was so bad he was sucking on hind teat.

 

[bradgator2]

Y’all ain’t from ‘round here

More nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs

Sweatin’ more than a whore in church

I was surprised nobody used “y’all” yet. Interestingly, people from Pittsburgh says “yinz”.

There are a couple of “sweatin more than a” that I wont put into this thread.

 

[Back Alley Gator]

Y'all is singular.
All Y'all is plural.

 

[Frozen Gator]

A little nasty, " crazy as a sch!t house rat".

 

[Back Alley Gator]

Crazy as a sprayed roach.

 

[Bait'n Gator]

First time I heard this one used was by a Mexican woman so that makes it a little less racist.

"You ain't shyt in a n****rs back yard".

 

[Joegator96]

shut yo trap chillin, papa speek the blessin, tata's gettin chilled

 

[AugustaGator]

Fair to middlin.

 

[soflagator]

Fair to middlin.

I believe that’s more of just an older person phrase, regardless of where they’re from. I’ve heard people from Boston use that expression. It’s also usually pretty good indicator that you want to get away from this person.

 

[grengadgy]

More than Carter's got little liver pills.

 

[soflagator]

More than Carter's got little liver pills.

That sounds like something you’d hear in the south…wing of a mental hospital.

I’d leave those people alone also. What the hell?

 

[AugustaGator]

I believe that’s more of just an older person phrase, regardless of where they’re from. I’ve heard people from Boston use that expression. It’s also usually pretty good indicator that you want to get away from this person.

That’s funny. I always heard it come from an honest working man.