[fidelis]

One of my interests has always been word and phrase origins. I've always wondered about a few of these ones myself.

[Falcon4.0]

My Father was born a raised in Texas and one of his favorite sayings was referring to somone,

"as nervous as a cat trying to cover up s&!t on a hot tin roof."

[M Kehoe]

Kiss my grits.

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[cephalopod]

They’ve made a game out of Southernisms.
https://store.southernthing.com/collections/as-seen-on/products/mama-says-southern-sayins-card-game

Got it for Christmas last year, it’s pretty fun with the crazy things you can come up with

[jy8z]

I got a hitch in my giddy up!

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

During my millwright days we were replacing a bearing race and this old boy from Alabama told my partner “we better het it”. This kid hit it with a hammer. Old guy said “I said het it not het it”. I told the k8d to grab the torch.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[ckilmer]

Here’s one that’s missing.

Lower than a blue snake in a cold bucket in January.

[deport]

Well I’ll Be
.....another way to express shock or surprise

What in the Sam Hill
.... a way to say “what the hell”

Might Could
...“I might could do that for you.”

Hankerin
...“Man, I’ve got a hankerin’ for biscuits and gravy.”

Madder Than a Wet Hen
...”they’re mad…like, really mad”

Pitch a Hissy Fit
...”to throw a tantrum”

Kiss My Go To Hell
...”kiss my butt”

Down Yonder
...“over there”

Well I’ll Be
...“well I’ll be damned”

[Stosh]

I always liked their use of the double modal - you might ought look into that.

[HockeyPop]

We don’t hide Crazy. We give it a cocktail and parade it on the front porch.

[odawg]

Nothing at all odd about those sayings. They are figures of speech and get to the point quickly.

[imardmd1]

These are not characteristic "Southern" -- they are all over the US. As a truly "Northerner" I have heard them since I could talk, especially around the country neighbors of my dairy farmer Grandpa, who probably at one time or another used just about all of these phrases.

And concerning #15: "If the Creek don't rise" has nothing to do about water. That really has a Southern origin, since this about the native indigenous Creek Indian tribal peoples of the Carolinas area, and if they will react rebelliously to the activities of the overwhelming of the white settlers pushing them out of their habitats.

[Firehath]

I was told by a linguist

geezohman

is strictly a ne ohio thing

[bert]

High on the hog is actually the tenderloin

[Albion Wilde]

"He (she) ain't right." (meaning mentally ill, or severely emotionally unbalanced)

By the way, "right" is pronounced "roight".

[Albion Wilde]

A wonderful source of winsome Southernisms is the prize-winning author Rick Bragg. He also has a regular column at Southern Living Magazine.

Here are a number of his humor pieces online:

https://www.southernliving.com/author/rick-bragg

[Sgt_Schultze]

Cold as a witch’s t*t in a steel bra doing pushups in the snow.

[nagant]

Bless your pea-pickin’ heart.

[gitmo]

I thought they were going to have odd Southern sayings. Those are all normal sayings.

[gitmo]

That road’s crookeder than a dog’s hind leg.