More Southern Sayings

Let's talk more Southern sayings

If you missed the first video, be sure to check it out. In the Deep South, our expressions are as rich and flavorful as our history

Our words and phrases that we use have the weight of many generations behind us

Some of them are as mysterious as they are charming, especially to those who aren't from here

hearing folks from other places wrestle with names like Tibido, Chilicothe, Bezona

It always kind of makes us laugh, but we are the best at laughing at ourselves

Our distinct dialect isn't just how we talk. It's a thread that ties all of our stories together

We feel like it's full of charm and character, and it's just part of who we are

So let's dig into some more Southern sayings that sprinkle a little extra flavor into

our everyday conversations. Just like the first video, we'll divide this up into categories

Okay? The first one will you talk about southern moods and our attitudes

Happy as a dead pig in sunshine. It's a completely carefree, unbothered attitude like a dead

pig who's laying in the sun oblivious to everything that's going on around them

having a connection it's throwing a dramatic overreactive fits they're having a conniction

it's an often over something really small that there shouldn't be any real reaction

to it all but there you got gussied up dressed up in fancy clothes

hair done jewelry on overdone actually to the point of overdone especially with an important

occasion back in the day we all got gussied up just to go to town so there you go

pitching a hissy fit it's kind of like having a connection except it's not really over

dramatic it like a temper tantrum or they really angry lots of yelling and lots of body language goes into a hizzy fit Down home wisdom and advice

Mike could. Now, you might not think that that is just a way of a southern saying

but it is, it's our way of saying might be able to

I might could go with you. There you go. Well, slap my knee and call me silly

That's one of my favorite ones when my kids were growing up. It's an expression of surprise or astonishment

especially when something was unexpected. Let's see. She's as pretty as a peach

Well, that's a very high compliment down here, especially in

one another. Whether, come rain or shine, that means that something's going to happen, whether

it's good or bad, no matter the circumstances. You know, there's an old saying death and taxes

It's kind of like that. Come rain or shine, this thing is going to happen. It doesn't matter what

we do about it. Fair to middling. It's a modest way of saying things are just, okay. Someone says

how you doing. We say, well, fair to middling. are just okay, they're not great, they're not terrible, I'm kind of in the middle of the road

Snowing down south. How very seldom do we ever get snow? We lived in Idaho, you know, and you get five, six feet of snow, and the traffic would still be

moving, people would still be going to work. In the south, you get a flurry, and everything shuts down

It's not just because we don't know how to drive in it, but it's also because we don't have

salt trucks, we don't have snow plows. There's nobody to remove the ice from the overpasses

So, you know, it's a euphonism indicating, you won't believe this, but this is the truth

If someone says it's snowing down south to you, that is their way of telling you that your slip is showing

I don even know if many women wear slips anymore but that a southern saying Your slip is showing Grit and grace Burning daylight

That's a John Wayne saying, too. He was from Texas in the movie, so I guess that's why he said

But it's just a way of saying that you're wasting time. They've got a lot of work to be done, and there's only so much daylight in the day

and you need to have this work done. So every moment counts, get the thing done

knee high to a grasshopper someone very young very small and somebody old-timers will say

I was knee-high to a grasshopper when they're just reminiscing remembering their past their childhood

high cotton that means you're doing very well particularly financially it is a

hails from a time when the cotton crops in the south were the top crop my grandparents were share

would go around and pick people's cotton for money. You know, they haven't been pounds

They picked in a day. I'll get it out in a second. They got paid for that. And so when the cotton was high and really productive

it was their way of their own prosperity. Food. Okay. There's two here that I love

Now, remember, I'm not sharing all that's in the post because there's 41 of them in the post

And we would be here a long time. So if you want to read all of them, go over to the post and take a look at that

Butter my butt and call me a biscuit. An expression of surprise or disbelief

It's similar to saying, well, I'll be. My favorite that I use a lot is kiss my grits and call it gravy

It's sassy. But it's a way of dismissing someone's opinion or their response to something that you said that you didn't like

It just kind of signals, well, I don't. care what you say. You can just kiss my grits and call it great. There you go. Quirky and

fun, as if those weren't quirky and fun. Drunker than Cooter Brown. Cooter Brown, and my

main name was Brown so I was half grown before I realized they weren talking about somebody in our family But it was a he was a man from the Civil War times And he stayed drunk throughout the war so that he wasn drafted by either side

He wasn't pulled into the war because he stayed drunk. So that's our southern folklore about Cooter Brown

So when someone says, you're drunker than Cooter Brown, you are very drunk

My nose itches, my nose itches. somebody's coming with her hole in the breeches

It suggests that if you're nose itches, it means that someone with a little mischief

or maybe a little trouble was coming your way. It's like if your ears are itching

your ears are burning, someone's talking about you kind of thing. In my family

we would say, my nose itches, my nose itches. Somebody's coming with her hole in the bridges

Might be you, might be me. Might be Sister Susie. I was almost 40 years old

before I knew that my papa had a cousin named Susie and that this was what our family's saying was

is actually an extension of the original saying, my nose itches, somebody's going home of the

bridges. My grandfather had made a rhyme out of it because he loved his cousin Susie and they called her sister

And so that's how that saying Sister Susie was coming. Okay. she's got a hitching her giddy up

It describes someone who's limping, maybe having some back pain, some hip pain, knee pain

but it's noticeable that they're changing their gait or their movement. So, there you go

These Southern sayings are more than just words. We use them in everyday conversation

and we find it fascinating sometimes how other people think they're funny

or entertained by them. They just remind us of who, we are and where we come from. So I hope that they've added a bit of Southern flavor to your day

And remember to check out the post for all the rest of them. Let's talk more Southern

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