Ok, Escargot, here are some more for you. If a person " doth protest too much" you say " hit dog always hollers", which means that the person loudly proclaiming their innocence is the culprit and if you are extremely busy, you are "busy as a one-legged man in a butt kicking contest". When a person is very nervous, they are "nervous as a whore in church" or " nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs". To be very tired is to be "Plumb wore out" or "Plumb give out" and to be content is to be "happy as a dead pig in the sun". If a baby isn't particularly pretty don't worry, because "homely in the cradle, pretty at the table", and making grandiose promises you probably can't keep is "letting your mouth overload your ass". If you have no intention to do something, you "don't aim to do it" or "ain't fixin' to do it" conversely, if you are about to do something you are "fixin' to". In my youth, I was a borderline juvenile delinquent and was said to be "wild as a jackrabbit", and if you were totally uninformed about a subject, my grandmother would say that you "know as much about that as a jackrabbit knows about Christmas" and when I misbehaved, which was all the time, it was "Gal, if you don't stop that, I'm gonna beat you seven ways from Sunday." Of course, I never stopped, so I had to go outside and get her a "hickory" or "switch" which is a long, thin, flexible branch from a tree or a bush, and if it wasn't big enough, she'd send me back to get another one, and she would "tan my hide".It never had much effect on me, and the general consensus was that "It didn't take". And if I was not particularly quick to do something, I was "slow as molasses in January". She was a stern woman, but never hesitated to tell me "I love you better'n grits." When It got to be spring planting time, my grandfather would be anxious to start plowing his fields, but if it was still too cold she'd tell him "Paw, you know that ground's still froze harder'n a preacher's dick" Now this was never said in front of us kids, but I overheard it. When she was talking to us she world use the wonderful word "tallywhacker" as a euphemism for the male member.The corresponding area on a female was known as the
"Coochie", and your rear end was your "hiney".
When someone is upset thethey are "het up", or have "got their panties in a wad".
I'm glad you enjoy this stuff. I like to hear different sayings from different places myself, and especially love the rhyming slang. I use it occasionally just for fun. Of course people look at me like I have three heads, but I' m used to it and "It don't make me no nevermind". Of course the sayings are better when you hear the accent along with them, and make no mistake, the Southern accents you hear on T.V. and in the movies bear little to no resemblance to the real thing unless spoken by a Southern actor. My own accent is very pronounced. I have never tried to lose it like some people do. When I open my mouth, you hear red clay, molasses, wide, lazy, muddy rivers and cotton fields. Of course I was taught proper grammar . I don't always useit, but know how if I need to. Oh yeah one I forgot- If a person is able-bodied but lazy and has an aversion to work (think Onslow on Keeping up Appearances) he is said to be "sorry as dirt" or "useless as tits on a boar hog".
