Well, you must have just about foundered yourself, then.
And…
After you give out, you’ll probably wake up the next day all stove up.
No, I’m saying people here are more likely to phrase something as “the this OF that” rather than “the that this”.
Here’s an example from where I work: we use “the pyramid of intervention” instead of the “intervention pyramid” when students screw up.
Yes, there are plenty of schools with “of” in their titles across the continent.
I’m just saying I hear “of” used that way in daily speech more frequently in South Georgia than I do north of the Ohio River.
Oh, I get it. Like “the bias of confirmation”, right?
The directions to my Mother’s family farm include: “Turn left at that old Chevy Burt’s gonna fix up. . .”
Poorly fitting clothes “Like socks on a rooster.”
Out of place “Like a pig on a motorbike” althought the final word is pretty flexible.
Going to more than one place (like bar hopping) “Jet-settin around.”
I’ve always wanted to live somewhere like this.
In a Chevy?
I’m Deep South and “down up on” makes perfect sense to me. down= away from here, up = when you get there, it’s up off the ground, and on = where it is.
This whole thread is making me realize how southern my speech is. I don’t use the colorful similies or the bless-your-heart kinda tropes, but my grammar reflects most of the things I’ve read here so far.
Ha, silly, of course not.
In a place where everyone knows everyone.
Anybody mentioned “up under”?
As in “I can’t find my keys. Oh here they are, up under the bed!”
Oooh, I just thought of another one, “This/He/She is tougher than petrified dog shit!”
Over the past few weeks there have been several showings on the no-commercials movie channels on cable of the delightfully Southern-flavored Billy Bob Thornton movie Daddy and Them (2001) and it’s loaded with phrases and twists of language to please all who have posted and read here.
The authenticity of the expression goes way back for me. The “them” involved may be as few as one other person, or just a way of making a group out of one person. Mama and them, Bob and them, Louise and them, endless variations.
Another word that I don’t hear used much in other parts is “stob” for a stake or small post. Billy Bob made a humorous reference to one in Sling Blade.
And it would be bold and pretentious of me to present this as a Southernism since I have only heard one person, a kid I was in high school with, use it. But on more than one occasion when profanity would have served his purposes better, he let out with “Nappy chin dog boy wine pig numb nut.” As you can tell, it made an impression on me. I hereby bequeath it to anyone interested.
Now Labrador Deceiver, don’t go gettin’ all het up over nothin’. 
Since you found your keys, would you mind carrying me to town?
I love this. I have a sister-in-law who is Chinese. Just today she sent me an email and in it she said “Jon and them go back to school Sept. 6” (Jon being my nephew).
That’s one I use, for those stumps of woody weeds left over after bushhogging.
You’d better behave or I’m gonna “jerk a knot in your head”.
A torrential rain is a real “frog choker”, “gully washer” or “chunk floater”.
I’ve heard older folks, if they were really thirsty, say they were “starving for a drink of water”.
When two women or girls get to fighting they might be “slappin’ jaws and pullin’ hair”.
If a bunch of creatures are collected in one spot they are “all nested up in there together”.
Before you fall asleep you must first “lay there and get easy”.
If you need to get in a hurry you must “get to steppin’” or “catch another cog”.
When pulling with a truck or tractor you may have to downshift and “put it in granny (gear)”.
Ah, I see! 
Uh, word. “Jerk a knot in your tail”, and “Slap a knot on your head.”
T’aint nuthin like a good mixed aphorism…
Surely you mean “Since you done found your keys…”
Seriously, I’ve only ever heard “jerk a knot in your head” and I’ve heard it for the last 50 years I’ve lived in MS.
Sorry if some of these I’m about to post have been posted, but home gal heah done inspired me.
I’ve heard both solid quarter and case quarter.
Out closer to College Hill (;)), we say “nea’bout.”
When you get ready to pay that money back, you euphemistically say “I got a package for you,” or send one of the kids, telling them, “Give this package to Uncle Bo-Bo.” (Most times they’d fold or twist it in a scrap of paper sack, and you knew better than to open it, that for sure).
Others:
You better stop “showin’ out” (misbehaving) as opposed to “showin’ off” (acting in a bragful or showy way).
To go into town from the country was “goin’ uptown.”
And you bet’ not show out uptown at the sto’, ‘cause you wll get "yo’ ass to’ up" (whipped) when you get back home (or maybe right then and there).
Folks were known to “catch a heart attack.”
For an older person to ask for a kiss from a younger person, they say “Gimmee some sugah,” or “Gimmee somma dat sugah” (and hug my neck).
Somebody who is really poor “Ain’t got a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of.”
Another, said derisively, “She just got a bought dress and ‘ain’t got eye wate to cry with.’”
Two insults my pap used to would use is “something-something sap-tapper or sot(d)-dodger.” I never could figure out what they were derivations of.
One that I’m not sure is Southern is “Don’t let you mouth write a check that your ass can’t cash.”