10 Hilarious Southern Expressions

[+ Avalon]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/29/southern-expressions_n_4174493.html

[bnm73]

Well sprinkle me with brown sugar and call me breakfast....

[Stormy]

Well I swanny. Hope u ain't makin fun of us Southun folk. Cuz it ain't fittin. It just ain't fittin

[JayCeeKy]

Texan Dan Rather used to have some dillies:

 

"Election results were "scary enough to make the Democrats' fingernails sweat."

 

"This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex."

 

"Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek."

 

"You'd have to say this thing is tight as the rusted lug nuts on a '55 Ford."

[bnm73]

Well baste my steaming pudding!

[bigvalboy]

"Well bless your little heart"

 

Every Southerner knows what that really means.

[bnm73]

It ain't no gravy off of my biscuits.

[+ Avalon]

"Well bless your little heart"

 

Every Southerner knows what that really means.

 

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bless%20your%20heart

 

I did not know that. Thanks!

[bnm73]

 

I did not know that. Thanks!

Yeah..."bless your heart" is usually said with a certain degree of sarcasm and irony.

 

It ranks right up there with "aren't you precious."

[Larstrup]

"Well bless your little heart"

 

Every Southerner knows what that really means.

 

@MsGuy

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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/29/southern-expressions_n_4174493.html

 

 

“Slower than molasses running uphill in the winter”

Things don’t get much slower than molasses. Uphill in winter? You get the picture.

(My mother would hit me with this after she asked me to do something I didn't want to do.)

 

“All hat no cattle”

Imagine the would-be ranching magnate, flush with cash earned elsewhere, who blows into town with a ten-gallon lid, a fresh pair of boots — and a much too loud mouth.

(The definition of this one brings to my mind the current occupant of the Oval Office.)

[bnm73]

 

(The definition of this one brings to my mind the current occupant of the Oval Office.)

 

As my father would have said, "he couldn't find his ass with both hands in his back pockets."

[bigvalboy]

@MsGuy

 

[BluDay]

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bless your heart

 

I did not know that. Thanks!

 

There are other meanings, including completely positive ones (such "That is so thoughtful"). It actually boils down to you having to know what we meant.

[MsGuy]

In A New York Minute---- indicating something that happens extremely quickly.

[bnm73]

Cornier than spoonbread...

[amused1]

Rather like "Bless your heart." is the all purpose "Thank You." It's all about the delivery.

[+ ArVaGuy]

My mother used the phrase “tighter than Dick’s hatband” quite often.

 

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tighter Than Dick's Hatband

[Tommygunzz]

Ann Richards had some beauties, too!

[bnm73]

My mother used the phrase “tighter than Dick’s hatband” quite often.

 

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tighter Than Dick's Hatband

 

Who are you, Sterling Archer?

[+ Avalon]

Who are you, Sterling Archer?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Archer