FALLING OUT - disagreement
PIDDLE - waste time, doing nothing
LAID UP - ill, hurt, unable to work
PLAYING POSSUM - pouting, sulking, or playing dead
BIGGITY - vain and overbearing
MUCH OBLIGED - thank you; hope to return the favor
SWEET TALKING THING - has a good line
SPRING CHICKEN - young thing
Boogity, boogity, boogity - Sunday race fans know that one : )
Dont forget acting like you are asleep...Kids do this alot when its time to get up for school.
Who can forget the young girl on Ol Yeller that was sweet on Travis;
"Ol yeller one what been stealin awl dat food"
"Is sok I aint gonna tayell"
LOL - I distinctly recall sitting at lunch with my brother (who hails from San Diego) in a little roadside cafe in Missouri - the sweet young thang comes up to him and intones "Yew thew eatin' awn thyat?" He looked at her as if she were speaking Martian...dang outlander...
None of these phases/terms sound unfamiliar to me. While my dad was in the army, and before I was a twinkle in daddy's eye, Ma stayed behind in Savannah, GA, and picked up the terminology. While raising us, she used to break from her scottish tinged accent and speak southern.
Also, a tour in the coastguard and following racin my whole life helped.
The other night we were watching some show about a bunch of young kids trying to improve their racin carreers, and my daughter abbie started her southern thang, usin words like "hunnert" (100) and "say ax" (6) and a whole bunch of other real well pronounced stuff. I was rollin. she and a sayax pack of buuuud will do that
Waste time = Fiddle fart
Carry = Tote
I like "well" because it can mean so many things other than a hole in the ground. "Well!" as in shock or surprise. Softly spoken denotes sadness. "Well?" as in I'm getting tire of waiting so if you don't get on the stick and get a move on, I'm going to knock you into next week. "Well." as a statement of agreement or hmm. However if you mean hmmmm with a raise eyebrow, it's "welllll." "Well," the first letter of most any sentence.
"That's about as useful as a wicker bed pan”
"I need that like Custer needed more Indians.”
"That person's got more nerve than an abcessed tooth!"
"Who's screwing this pig? You or me?"
"I'm as full as a fat ladies sock" !
"That's as useful as a screen door on a submarine!"
"That is as hard as trying to nail Jello to a tree."!!
"There are three kinds of people in the world, those who can count, and those who cant."
"If you were any dumber, your ears would touch!"
“She's the kind of person where you scratch the surface and you find more surface.”
"If you had a brain you would take it out and play with it!"
"He's got a full six pack, but he's missing the plastic that holds it together."
If brains were gasoline, you couldn't run a piss ant's motorcycle around an anthill twice
" I am going to have to sit on my hands to keep from clapping"