Funny Expressions From Your Neck of the Woods

[cignus_pfaccari]

"The Devil's beatin' his wife." That's when it's raining, but the sun's shining.

I *think* that's from Georgia; the only other person I know who mentioned hearing it was from Milledgeville, GA.

"If it'd been a snake, it'd've bit me!"

That's when you've failed a bunch of abysmally-low DC Spot checks, and see the thing that's right in front of you.

Brad

 

[weiknarf]

Hangin' in there like hair in a biscuit.

Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rockin' chairs

He don't know his A**hole from a hole in the ground.

All over that like -
-a fat kid on a cupcake
-stink on sh**

He got beat with the ugly stick

He'd argue with a sign post

He's uglier than homemade sh**

Don't bring a knife to a gunfight

I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire.

 

[Jdvn1]

"She's a Mona Lisa"

Meaning she's pretty from a distance, but really ugly when you get close.

 

[Stormborn]

Niin kiero mies että pitää ruuvata hautaan = Such a twisted man you have to screw him into a grave.
- Said of a dishonest man.


Tuijottaa kuin härkä uutta porttia = Stares like a bull at the new gate.
- When someone can't get their eyes off something.

OK, I'm from central Alabama and I have heard both of these expressions from rural people around here, not common but I have heard them. The only difference was in the second case we say "calf" rather than "bull." In fact it was what I was going to post.

Heard many of the other "southernisms" here, and some not so southern.

a few more

antigoglin - crooked or out of true
"Well, I'll be John Brown!" - an exclamation of suprise, much like "well I'll be a monkey's uncle"
"I swuny" - my grandmother's generation had been tought not to swear, so said "swuny" rather than "I swear." She could cuss like a sailor thoughm and did so with almost South Park like casualness.

My grandmother's generation had several more, but I deem them not worth repeating, ever and much less on this board, due to their steroetypical content.