NWR - Southern Sayings

My fav here is bless her heart.... Meaning she's dumber than a brick

Yep, I was going to say bless her heart too. It definitely means dumber than a box of rocks. LOL

He looks more nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rockin' chairs

If you want something to happen, but it's not certain: Good Lord willin' and the creek don't rise..

FH likes to use the phrase "as the crow flies" to describe a distance. Example: "from here to the grocery store it's only about a mile as the crow flies!" meaning if you cut straight across between the two points, instead of taking roads etc

Obviously a lot of these are super old fashioned and not applicable anymore. But two things you should know as a southerner- Y'all & Coke. Y'all means you all, as in more than one person. Coke mean coca cola, diet coke, pepsi, sprite, dr pepper, everything.... what the rest of the world calls soda, we call Coke.

I still can't get used to people calling me honey or sweetie. I'm starting to become more accepting to ma'am. Up north that's only for old people haha.

FH likes "Some people like their cucumbers better pickled" (guess it means to each their own)

And contrary to what Yankees think, y'all is not used for just ONE person.

I love "let me carry you to the store" (meaning giving someone a ride in your car lol)

Amy - my Yankee ass has never heard it called Bags before. It's corn hole here too so I don't think that's necessarily a southern thing haha!

Hahaha

Thank you and keep em coming!

Y'all is something I will definitely have to get used to hearing and saying LOL

@Catrapoin- No northern calls them-self a Yankee, so that is also a southern thing. That surprised me the first time I was called to as one. And we know that Y'all is for more than one person. (sorry I'm a northern girl who's been living in the south for 3.5 years now)

Actually I'm a Yankee that just called herself a Yankee, but I just did that to make a point. I don't do that on a regular basis haha!

Canadian here : What the heck is bags and/or corn hole?

Valerie - it's a game where you thrown bean bags into a hole in a board. Same idea as horseshoes, just with bean bags.

Haha @Amy- I've never heard it called bags either.

@Shannon, when I went up to New York, they thought it was hilarious to keep saying "y'all".. to just me. I was like, I am one person. It's a stereotype, some Yankees think that we say it all the time, no matter what. And yes, I doubt Yankees would call themselves that, unless they're a fan of the baseball team

Nope.. definitely corn hole here in Boston too

Okay, divergent thread seems to be starting here LOL

More sayings, please!

My fav's "I don't like the cut of your jib" but that's not Southern.

We call it the bean bag game, lol.