Classic Southern Expressions .....

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Exclamations:
"Well knock me down and steal muh teeth!"
"Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit."

Threats:
"I'll slap you so hard, your clothes will be outtastyle."
"This'll jar your preserves."
"Don't you be makin' me open a can o' whoop-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 enjoy it."
"Gooder than 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."
Wintry roads are said to be "slicker than otter snot."

Descriptions:
A bothersome person is "like a booger that you can't thump off."
When something is bad then you say, "that ain't no count."
If something is hard to do, it's "like trying to 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 crap 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 still turning, but the hamsters dead"
Any insulting statement is always followed by "bless his/her heart."
Example: "She's dumber than a door knob, bless her heart."
 
Some of these are southern, and some are uniquely Texan. I've heard them all out of my moms mouth at one point or another.

"Six of one, half dozen of the other" - It's the same thing.. same difference.
"Pull the door to" - Shut the door
"Coke" - refers to ANY soft drink.. ie: "I want a coke", "What kind?", "Sprite"
"feeder road" - Seems to be a Houston-centric word for access or frontage road
"ain't" - am not, is not, etc
"y'all" - You all
"fixin" - about to.. I'm fixin to go to the store.
"This ain't my first rodeo" - I already know this
"It's gonna come a turd-floater" - It's about to rain hard

Add to this the excessive use of double negatives.. "You ain't got no business doing that"

This post made me miss home. People talk funny way up here in yankee land.
 
Some of these are southern, and some are uniquely Texan. I've heard them all out of my moms mouth at one point or another.

"Six of one, half dozen of the other" - It's the same thing.. same difference.
"Pull the door to" - Shut the door
"Coke" - refers to ANY soft drink.. ie: "I want a coke", "What kind?", "Sprite"
"feeder road" - Seems to be a Houston-centric word for access or frontage road
"ain't" - am not, is not, etc
"y'all" - You all
"fixin" - about to.. I'm fixin to go to the store.
"This ain't my first rodeo" - I already know this
"It's gonna come a turd-floater" - It's about to rain hard

Add to this the excessive use of double negatives.. "You ain't got no business doing that"

This post made me miss home. People talk funny way up here in yankee land.

:giggle:....they sho' do!....(DeafTim has a lot of them)....and one sentence I cannot tolerate is...."I ain't got none!".....drives me batty.
 
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