Southern Sayings

Last night a few girls came over for a "anti superbowl" party. We did watch the halftime show then watched The Blindside. The girls brought up that they had never seen Steel Magnolias. This is one of my favorites! I have grown up loving this movie! So today for my day off, I watched it.

This movie reminded me of all of the phrases my grandparents used to say. I miss Memaw & Da a lot. They lived ten minutes away from our house out in the country so we saw them a lot. They would often take Carrie and I out to dinner to the K& W, the J & S, Stamey's BBQ, Short Sugars in Reidsville, and Libby Hill. I miss so many things about them. But watching these type of movies reminds me of the things they used to say and do!

Here are some of the phrases I remember:

-Let me give you a little piece of money (any amount of money was a little piece of money)

-He's got of a lot of gall

-John Brown it

-Big lady= for a lady showing off

-Don't know him from Adam

-Cry me a river of tears = Da used to say this if we were crying too much about something.

-Eyes are bigger than my stomach

-To be ugly= to be mean

-Off galavanting around

-Get all gussied up

-She's got some nerve

-Tuckered out

-I swannee (my favorite old lady saying!)

-Light in the Loafers= a gay man

-Don't go bizzerk

-I declare

-Ale Law- this means oh my goodness...

-You don't have to tell everything you know= Da would always tell me this b/c I talk a lot! Nothing has changed!

-Youngin

-Give me some sugar (miss Memaw saying this!)

-I could jerk a knot in ..... = to hit someone

(Fifth grad picture. I remember thinking this shirt looked so grown up!)

Thinking about these sayings, reminded me of my 5th grade teach Mrs. Smith. She is from Tennessee and here are a couple of the phrases she would say:

-Up the creek without a paddle = out of luck

-Who the sam hill is that??

I love southern sayings! :)

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I thought of one I wanted to add:

-My sister and I went on many car rides with Memaw & Da. When we would drive by a really pretty big house out in the country, especially a white wooden house, Memaw would say "Many a fine meals been cooked there." Miss those car rides...