# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![stockton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@stockton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stockton)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/21 "2003-04-30T03:06:27Z")
“Half-and-again as far” means 1.5X the measurement you’re quoting. As in: “He ran half-and-again the distance from here to the boat dock, but he still got caught and wound up on COPS.” Please don’t get me started on “whole-nother,” I’m trying to stomp that out. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/22 "2003-04-30T03:23:19Z")
You want some of this here orange? I’ll cut it half in two, then. ---
**Author:** ![presidebt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c37758/32.png) [@presidebt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/presidebt)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/23 "2003-04-30T03:24:58Z")
“Out/Over yonder” “Well…” (pronounced “whale” and drawn out, as in “whaaaaale”) this is the preface to 90% of any given comment by any given person in any given conversation. “Alrighty” and “Alrighty then” and just for fun: “It’s hotter’n two weasels f\*cking in a wool sock.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Super\_Gnat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Super\_Gnat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Gnat)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/24 "2003-04-30T05:20:08Z")
“back in the day” (in the past) My grandparents used to say “I reckon”, and my grandfather told different stories about “haints” (ghosts/supernatural beings). ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/25 "2003-04-30T05:29:00Z")
“I’m going to carry him to the store.” (I’m going to give him a ride.) Fuller 'n a tick. (after a big meal.) Down the road a fur piece. (You know, over yonder.) And “Bless her little heart” goes after ANYTHING. You can say the worst thing in the world about someone and as long as you bless her little heart afterwards, it’s not an insult. Gotta love it. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/26 "2003-04-30T06:28:52Z")
I’ve lived in the South my whole life and I wouldn’t be caught dead uttering 95% of the phrases in this thread. Gah. :eek: By the way, when did “back in the day” become a Southern thing? I picked that up online. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/27 "2003-04-30T09:54:34Z")
Hosepipe. Kindly. (please, as in, ‘Will you kindly get the hell off my land!’) Sharp as a baseball. Whistlin’ Dixie (lying) Cornpone! (bullshit!) Good eatin’ (tasty) ---
**Author:** ![LowerLip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/839c29/32.png) [@LowerLip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LowerLip)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/28 "2003-04-30T10:37:28Z")
As **Bruce\_Daddy** said it: ‘Sharp as a baseball’. That one just tickeled me sideways. LL ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/29 "2003-04-30T11:06:02Z")
Oh “Aight now” means goodbye. And yes, “\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ as hell” is a Southern thing. Trust me on this one ;). ---
**Author:** ![Adoptamom\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Adoptamom\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adoptamom_II)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/30 "2003-04-30T11:31:39Z")
She/He ain’t got the sense God gave fleas I used 'ta could do cartwheels ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/31 "2003-04-30T11:42:16Z")
Welcome aboard, **she’s come undone**. Love the username. And, the song, assuming that’s where it came from. Can I give you a hand with that zipper. 😉 My fave is “slicker’n snake snot”. But, I also like “crazier’n bat sh!t”. And, **Mariemarie** ’s “butter my butt, and call me a biscuit” is a riot. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/32 "2003-04-30T12:03:38Z")
Threats from one Texan to another: I’m gonna git on you like white on rice. I’m gonna git on you like a duck on a June bug. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/33 "2003-04-30T12:11:18Z")
**Eebagoom!** is supposed to be a quintissentially Lancashire / Yorkshire saying. What? Oh, shit, sorry. I thought you meant south from _here_🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/34 "2003-04-30T13:38:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cisco \* > **Oh “Aight now” means goodbye.** It can also mean you’ve got one more chance to stop: (Idiot bumps into Bruce on the dance (pronounced “daince”) floor) Bruce: “Hey man, watch out.” (Idiot does it again) Bruce: “Aight now!” (One more time) Bruce: BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM!!! Oh, and if you want to discretely ask somebody how their 'shine still is doing, you ask them if they have carried a 100 lb bag of sugar through the woods lately. Yes, I know 2 or 3 people that still make their own 'shine, and no, you can’t have any. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/35 "2003-04-30T15:08:30Z")
Sharper than a bowling ball is more funny. Also, he’s about as dumb as a box of hammers/rocks. Sigogglin - means crooked or tilted, generally unbalanced. I assume it’s short for side-goggling. Note, this is a totally hillbilly word, and I’m usually the only one who knows it on any particular occasion where this subject comes up. Also, we can be right (very) mad, or just a might (little) peeved. They oughta take him out back (and shoot him / put him out of his misery). Ima go to the store. (I’m going to go to the store.) Note: I’ve seen this written by people I know to be living in the UK, so it might not be as Southern as I once thought it to be. I ain’t got no (don’t have any) money/time/etc. I ain’t studyin’ you. Don’t pay me no mind. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/36 "2003-04-30T15:26:24Z")
“Buggy” - The wheeled cart in which one deposits groceries while shopping. “Good People” - Used to describe one who will come to your aid, is trustworthy, or generally a nice all-around individual. This is a singular phrase, not a plural one. As in “George Thatchberry? He’s good people!” “Fambly” - Your relatives. “Seb’m Leb’m” - A convenience store that was originally named for the hours it was open. “Play Pretty” - Term that should identify a toy; but in actual use only identifies what a toy is NOT. As in “JimBob! Don’t touch your Grandma’s glass unicorn collection! That ain’t no play-pretty!” “Football” or “Spring Football” - The only two acceptable answers to the question “What sport do you play, boy?” Oh my God. I could do this ALL DAY!! ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/37 "2003-04-30T17:43:46Z")
Well le’s see… Dryer’n a popcorn fart… Hornier’n a 2 peckered billy goat… Raining like a cow pissin’ on a flat rock. He’s so tight he has ta screw his hat on… (Frugal) Stubborn as a Gubmit mule… Hotter’n a two dollar pistol… Cuter’n a bugs titty… Went out back to take a sh!t and the hogs ate em… (Haven’t been seen for a while). Rode hard an’ put up wet. I can’t imagine somebody from Canada actually using any of these…maybe like a English/Redneck dictonary. And everybody North of your present location is a Yankee. It don’t mean squat if’n they’s jes a litty bit North…they’s yankees. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/38 "2003-04-30T17:51:39Z")
Dark as the inside of a cow. Cold as the bottom of a well. Fell down the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. (also “branch” for a creek) Rough as a cob. ---
**Author:** ![unwashed\_brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9adbd/32.png) [@unwashed\_brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unwashed_brain)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/39 "2003-04-30T18:46:44Z")
This guy I know was describing his old Honda Civic, shook his head and siad “that thing couldn’t pull a greasy string out of a sick cat’s ass.” Describing a larger woman’s jiggling buttocks who was walking in front of us wearing spandex pants that were waaaaay too tight, the same guy said, “My God! It looks like two pigs wrastlin’ under a garbage bag!” ---
**Author:** ![\_etalhea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/779978/32.png) [@\_etalhea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_etalhea)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018/40 "2003-04-30T19:52:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stonebow \* > **’colder than a witch’s tit’** FWIW, Having been married to a witch, I can testify that her breasts were normal temperature. Of couse, she was meaner than a striped-assed snake, and having gained a massive amount of weight since she left, she is now uglier than an empty glass of buttermilk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-from-the-south-got-any-good-ones/172018.md?page=3)