# Expressions from the South... got any good ones? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 29, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018 "2003-04-29T22:27:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![she\_s\_come\_undone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@she\_s\_come\_undone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/she_s_come_undone)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/1 "2003-04-29T22:27:16Z")
Hi Dopers! I remember seeing a thread here once a while ago that listed a bunch of interesting and colorful expressions, some of which originated from the South. I can’t seem to find it… anybody a clue what I’m talking about, or better yet, a link? See, I have this friend who is moving to North Carolina and wanted to compile some of the best ones. I’d much appreciate any contributions, if y’all know any. Here’s some I remember: “He’s slicker than snot on a doorknob.” “You can’t ride two horses with the same a s s.” Any help is appreciated. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![stoyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@stoyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stoyel)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/2 "2003-04-29T22:41:40Z")
That dog don’t hunt. (Your logic is fundamentally flawed, my good man.) If that don’t work, we’ll always think it shoulda. (I think that one’s pretty recent, but it’s always delivered with a Southern drawl.) So dry the trees are bribin’ the dogs. The classic, whole bucket o’ ugly. Splittin’ mud. (Running fast.) … you’d think after six years in Texas I would know more of these, but most of the other ones coming to mind (“Lower than a snake’s belly”) strike me as cliche. Ah well. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/3 "2003-04-29T22:42:58Z")
First of all, welcome to the Straight Dope! “Yeah, and if frogs had wings, they wouldn’t bump their butts on the ground.” “He needed killin’.” Important North Carolina fact: It’s spelled ‘Krzyzewski’, but pronounced ‘shuh-shef-ski’. Likewise, it’s spelled ‘Duke’ but pronounced ‘the-university-of-new-jersey-at-durham’. At least, in Chapel Hill, it is. And maybe a helpful moderator could shuffle this off to IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Stonebow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Stonebow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stonebow)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/4 "2003-04-29T22:53:11Z")
i’m partial to ‘sweatin’ like a whore in church’ ‘colder than a witch’s tit’ ‘colder than a brass monkey’s balls’ ‘hotter’n 700 hunderd dollars’ ‘he needs kil’t’ ‘a big ol’ (anything)’ ‘bless her heart’ (usually just after a horrible insult: i.e. she is the filthiest whore in this town…bless her heart) just a few of my favs. -stonebow, transplanted Yankee living in Arkansas ---
**Author:** ![she\_s\_come\_undone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@she\_s\_come\_undone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/she_s_come_undone)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/5 "2003-04-29T22:56:29Z")
Oops, sorry for the faux-pas… thought I had carefully chosen where my question should go… my bad! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Margo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Margo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Margo)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/6 "2003-04-29T22:57:31Z")
I have only lived in the south for about 2 years, but here are some of my favorites: Fixin’ to get your picture made (getting your picture taken) Pourin’ down the rain Hey! (this is the greeting instead of Hello) No dogs my way (no cars coming on this side) Margo ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/7 "2003-04-29T23:03:09Z")
Ain’t yet but I’m fixin’ to. How’s yer mama 'n 'em? [Anything] as hell. (Note that “Cold as hell” is just as effective as “Hot as hell.”) ---
**Author:** ![Fibonacci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Fibonacci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fibonacci)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/8 "2003-04-29T23:10:05Z")
Here was one such thread. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=112080&highlight=TEXAS+CRUDE](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=112080&highlight=TEXAS+CRUDE) Be sure to check out the “Texas Crude” link I posted in that thread. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/9 "2003-04-29T23:28:00Z")
\*\*Slippery as greased owl shit. \*\* Used to denote something that is somewhat slick. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/10 "2003-04-29T23:32:34Z")
“Well, I’ll be shit and shot for stinkin’” “I’m fixin’ to get ready” “You ain’t from around here, are ya?” “He sure do got a purty mouth, don’t he” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![she\_s\_come\_undone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@she\_s\_come\_undone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/she_s_come_undone)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/11 "2003-04-29T23:55:27Z")
Just what I was looking for Fibonacci, a thousand thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/12 "2003-04-30T00:02:46Z")
…so ugly s/he’d scare a buzzard off a gut wagon. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/13 "2003-04-30T00:19:51Z")
…so ugly s/he’d scare a buzzard off a gut wagon. I’m fixinta warsh (the truck, clothes, etc) …get aholt of (something) get shed of (something, usually a man) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/14 "2003-04-30T01:16:36Z")
We’ll just take this on over to IMHO – Good Lord willin’ and the creek don’t rise. **DrMatrix** - General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f9ae1b/32.png) [@kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/15 "2003-04-30T01:19:54Z")
Well poke my eyes out, because know I’ve seen everything. ---
**Author:** ![jacksen9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jacksen9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacksen9)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/16 "2003-04-30T01:21:36Z")
Hey, ya’ll been to that Super Wal Mart yet? Hey, she is one of them lee sisters, Ugly Lonely Homely Sickly ---
**Author:** ![Catalyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@Catalyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catalyst)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/17 "2003-04-30T01:29:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cisco \* > \*\*[Anything] as hell. (Note that “Cold as hell” is just as effective as “Hot as hell.”) \*\* Is this strictly a southern thing? I never associated it with any particular region. ---
**Author:** ![desdinova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@desdinova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/desdinova)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/18 "2003-04-30T01:40:07Z")
“More fun than stomping on kittens.” An Air Force Lieutenant Colonel from Georgia taught me that one… I only use it rarely 😉 ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/19 "2003-04-30T02:10:07Z")
“Useless as tits on a boar-hog” “Fine as frog hairs” (in response to “How you doin?”) “Might could” for maybe (“I might could do that.”) ---
**Author:** ![Mariemarie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@Mariemarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mariemarie)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/20 "2003-04-30T02:20:30Z")
Sleeping like a drunk cowboy. Sleeping like a BIG dog. (Morphed into EVERYTHING like a big dog…Partying like a BIG dog, I am liking this steak like a BIG dog, Did you have a good vacation? Oh yeah like a BIG dog!) Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit. How about that list of phrases you won’t hear in the South? “Does my hair look too big?” “I’ll take Shakespeare for a thousand, Alex.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018.md?page=2)