Southern Expressions

Southern sayings about bad character

• You're lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut.
• She’s meaner than a wet panther.
• He's a snake in the grass.
• Why that egg-suckin' dawg!

 When Southerners are busy:

• I been running all over hell's half acre.
• She's busier than a cat covering crap on a marble floor.
• I'm as busy as a one-legged cat in a sandbox.
• Busier than a moth in a mitten!

Southern sayings about conceit and vanity:

• She's so stuck up, she'd drown in a rainstorm.
• She’s stuck up higher than a light-pole.

Southern expressions about being broke or poor:

• Too poor to paint, too proud to whitewash.
• I'm just poor as a church mouse.
• I'm so poor I can't afford to pay attention.
• He was so poor, he had a tumbleweed as a pet.
• I couldn’t buy a hummingbird on a string for a nickel.
• I’m so poor I couldn’t jump over a nickel to save a dime.

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