Bless Their Heart... And Other Southern Sayings

[gallinamama]

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You are soooo right... and they are so friendly... Just something about a southern woman that can make you feel at ease... but don't be fooled!!! If you wrile her... She'll get ya!!

For some reason.. when I am talking on the phone with my brothers and my sister in law.... I start talking with a southern drawl....

my children get a big kick out of it... just something in my "jeans" I guess...

 

[gallinamama]

I just got off the phone from a brother in Florida.. but as I said... they were born and lived in Tennessee.. Any who... he always says... "Well, I'll be"... no matter what it is... Well I'll be...

 

[willjal]

Played in a band for a while to get me through college with some guys who grew up up north. One day I said "mash" that button on the amplifier and they all flipped out.

Dad would say "ill slap the taste outchu mouth"

Also, when I would hang out with people I had no business hanging out with as a kid, my dad would say "son if you play with s**t, you'll get s**t on you." He was right.

 

[chickenzoo]

My mom would say -" well if you lay with dogs you'll end up with fleas". Her way of saying If you hang around someone bad long enough, they rub off on you .

 

[kcsunshine]

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I used to work with a group of women and when one would say Jaeatyet? The others would reply, No, Djew?

And it was colder than a well diggers hind end.

And if something was hard to do, it was like pullin hen's teeth.

My grandmother would never have used a bad word, she would say dagnabit, or consarnit.

If you are talking about the area you live in it is "our neck of the woods".

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

My family said things were harder than pulling hens teeth too!

Grandma used to say, "That woman is a bold piece of baggage!" I never quite knew what a bold piece of baggage was but clearly it was not good. Or worse a Brazen piece of baggage. Whew did NOT want people calling you THAT behind your back!

 

[scbatz33]

"pee like a racehorse"
"built better than a brick s**t house"

Oh and I was talking to a fellow the other day about his puppy housebreaking problems. Round here when you have a dog that is difficult to housebreak, folks call it a "sooner"

As in sooner crap inside than out.

 

[itsmyobsession]

I am from Pennsylvania ( a yankee as I am referred to in GA) and my husband is born and raised in Georgia. We often have a communication problem. I cant always understand him and he is always telling me to stop talking like a yankee (bless my heart!!!!)

 

[Jmurcks]

I ate so much I frogged my sides...
I'm stuffed like a tick...
It's comin up a cloud...

And it took me adult age to finally know that food "ruins" it doesn't "rern" or become "rernt".

 

[Jmurcks]

Oh! And if a man says "I gotta go see a man about a dog" don't ask if you can come along... haha!

First time I heard that I was like I want to see a dog, too!!
BIG mistake... means he's goin to pee...