SOUTHERN WORDS AND PHRASES

(sigh)

If you're from the south, this stuff will be familiar. If you're not, incorporate one or two of these phrases into your conversation and see if you don't get a smile.

Two shakes of a cow's tail

Ain't that the berries

Caught with your pants down

Easy as fallin' off a log

It's gooder'n grits

In a coon's age

Hog wild

My cow died last night so I don't need your bull.

Shuckin' and jivin'

S _ _ _ _ ing in high cotton

Fly off the handle

Either fish or cut bait

Like a bump on a log

Trifling (meaning lazy)

That takes the cake.

Stompin' grounds

Sight for sore eyes

Cold as a witch's tit

And the best of all: Bless your heart. It's rumored you can say anything you want about a person -- even naughty stuff -- so long as you say, "Bless his/her heart" afterward. (Don't ya just love the south?!)

(sigh)