Feb 172019
Southern Sayings
Having manners = Southern sayings reflect the golden rule – treat others how you want to be treated/ be kind
- Hold your horses – be patient
- Mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy – mind your own business
- Mind your p’s and q’s – be respectful
- Say yer prayers – literally
- Mend fences – mend relationships when broken
Taking life slow and or easy yet still having strength and strong work ethic = the importance of working hard and being a strong person is important but so is embracing the idea of rest
- Either fish or cut bait – work or make way for those who will
- Strong as an ox – strength
- She’s whiskey in a teacup – she’s pretty but is a strong woman
- Slower than a Sunday afternoon – Sundays are a day of rest so no one does anything
- Come sit a spell – come and sit for a while and rest
Calling people out on their shit = Southerners speak their mind and keep each other in check( but most of the time is comes for a place of love)
- Those pants were so tight I could see her religion – skimpy dressing
- Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s rainin’ – lying
- The porch light is on but no one is home – stupidity
- He/ she so ugly, they didn’t get hit with the ugly stick, they got whopped with the whole forest – ugly can be physical and personality in the south but this is very ugly
- Give down the country – give someone a piece of your mind
Southern Sayings = tell you where Southerners values lie
Prompt: Evaluate what southern sayings communicate about the southern values.