Friday, March 31, 2006

RevGal Friday Five, Southern Edition

The Friday Five is about classic family phrases; in my case most of these are part of the great body of Southern colloquialisms. I came up with way more than 5.


  1. Crazier than a blind dog in a meat house.

  2. You can’t get blood from a turnip.

  3. You have the [family name] temper.

  4. He doesn’t know his a** from a hole in the ground.

  5. You can’t make a silk purse out of sow’s ear.

  6. He’s got no more sense than a jackrabbit.

  7. Runnin’ round like a chicken with its head cut off.

  8. Give your momma (or daddy) some sugar.

  9. I’m plumb tuckered out.

  10. She was having a hissie fit.

  11. I think you’re gettin’ too big for your britches.

  12. Don’t you get sassy with me, missy.

  13. I haven’t seen him in a coon’s age.

  14. Crazier than a bessy bug.

  15. Butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth.

  16. I don’t know him from Adam.

  17. Stop all that caterwaulin’.

  18. Lordy mercy (an all purpose phrase to express fatigue, surprise, dismay, and so on)

And the one that made me hoppin’ mad:

Intelligent people are never bored.
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13 comments:

  1. Susie/Nueva CantoraFriday, March 31, 2006 at 1:23:00 PM EST

    Ah! that last one... my mom's version was always "bored people are boring." Oooh did that make me mad.

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  2. LorraineFriday, March 31, 2006 at 3:24:00 PM EST

    I like the blind dog in a meat house one. Funny! And what is a bessy bug?

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  3. Brotha BuckFriday, March 31, 2006 at 8:36:00 PM EST

    My grandma used to tell people having a bad hair day, or otherwise just plain not looking right: "You look like a mow-mow. I always wondered what a mom-mow was. Must not be good.

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  4. J. Andrew LockhartFriday, March 31, 2006 at 9:32:00 PM EST

    I hear all of these regularly! :)

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  5. FRIDAY'S CHILDSaturday, April 1, 2006 at 2:43:00 AM EST

    Yeah I can see this is more than 5. Anyway they're nice. Here's one - Gone with the dogs.

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  6. GrishSaturday, April 1, 2006 at 9:36:00 AM EST

    I'm with Andrew. I hear nearly all of these and more everyday. :) lmao

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  7. GrishSaturday, April 1, 2006 at 9:36:00 AM EST

    I'm with Andrew. I hear nearly all of these and more everyday. :) lmao

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  8. Dorcas (aka SingingOwl)Saturday, April 1, 2006 at 9:22:00 PM EST

    My family says almost all of these. Except my mom says instead of "tuckered out" that she is "all give out." :-P

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  9. CarolSunday, April 2, 2006 at 1:54:00 AM EST

    I haven't heard these two before:
    Crazier than a blind dog in a meat house.

    You can’t get blood from a turnip.

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  10. Jody HarringtonMonday, April 3, 2006 at 8:44:00 AM EST

    I didn't have time to play this meme, but your answers look a lot like mine.

    Two additions:
    Happy as a jackass eating briars.
    Do something you don't want to, for once!

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  11. spookyrachMonday, April 3, 2006 at 4:05:00 PM EST

    These are great! And verrry familiar. (Except for the blind dog one! That is a new classic.)

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  12. hip2bWednesday, April 5, 2006 at 6:12:00 PM EST

    Y'all, I miss the south! On my last visit, my sister-in-law asked my son to "give her some sugar" and he didn't know what to do!

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  13. JQSaturday, February 13, 2010 at 3:23:00 AM EST

    I'm from the North. I suppose that might be the reason I don't understand half of these. But I still love them apart from the last.

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