Totally Southern Expressions

[Nalt]

Hotter than a hundred suns. That one had to originate in San Antonio, TX...

 

[grengadgy]

Give me some sugar

 

[grengadgy]

I didn't just fall off the turnip truck.

 

[TLB]

I'm surprised nobody has listed these:


Well, don't that just chap your ass?



And, of course, the perennial "Kiss my grits"

 

[grengadgy]

Who are your people?


It's comin' a gully washer.

 

[bradgator2]

Yes Massa

 

[grengadgy]

Blind in one eye and can't see out of the other.

Tight as Dick's hat band.

Old enough that your wants won't hurt you.

 

[GatorJB]

I don't think these have been mentioned yet. Apologies if Im wrong:

Over yonder

Bless his bones

Lord willin and the creek don't rise

 

[bradgator2]

 

[I Have No Friends :(]

"The Sheriff is a near!" Classic Southern phrase.

 

[Nalt]

Want in one hand and s**t in the other and see which one fills up the fastest.

 

[B52G8rAC]

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

All yall is redundant illiterate Texacan. Y'all derives from "ye all" which th plural form of thou, singular in middle English. The plural form was contra Ted from ye all to yall by the Scots Irish settlers in southern Appalachia . Hence yall is plural. You is still singular form in the educated and Genteel South.

 

[bradgator2]

All yall is redundant illiterate Texacan. Y'all derives from "ye all" which th plural form of thou, singular in middle English. The plural form was contra Ted from ye all to yall by the Scots Irish settlers in southern Appalachia . Hence yall is plural. You is still singular form in the educated and Genteel South.

 

[Detroitgator]

All yall is redundant illiterate Texacan. Y'all derives from "ye all" which th plural form of thou, singular in middle English. The plural form was contra Ted from ye all to yall by the Scots Irish settlers in southern Appalachia . Hence yall is plural. You is still singular form in the educated and Genteel South.

 

[bradgator2]

We surrender

 

[soflagator]

We surrender

 

[AugustaGator]

We surrender

What a git you got!

 

[Nalt]

All yall is redundant illiterate Texacan. Y'all derives from "ye all" which th plural form of thou, singular in middle English. The plural form was contra Ted from ye all to yall by the Scots Irish settlers in southern Appalachia . Hence yall is plural. You is still singular form in the educated and Genteel South.

Educated south? You obviously aren't talking about Tennessee are ya?

 

[grengadgy]

That’s so good, it makes me wanna slap my mamma!

 

[grengadgy]

If you are feeling froggy . . . jump!