Things That Are Said In The South That Are Often Only Understood In The South

It's interesting being a life-long Southerner. Things are more laid back and relaxed down here. Not only is the weather warmer, Southerners are regarded as way more ignorant and backwards than their Northern counterparts. That is not always the case of course. Either way, there are certain things, sayings, words, and way of life that you have to be Southern to know and appreciate.
I started posting these on Facebook and Twitter about a year ago with the help of my mother, some co-workers and relatives. Watching Foghorn Leghorn and listening to Michael Waltrip commentate NASCAR races has helped. Here are a few of these words and sayings.
Fine as frog hair
Smiling like a possum eating grits
Taters, maters, and okree
More nervous than a cat in a room full of rocking chairs
Making more noise than a bunch of skeletons on a hot tin roof
Dagnabit
Livermush sammich
Mud bog
Back or over yonder
Skeered
Whip the tar out of ya
Tarnation
Cute as a button
Chow-chow
Hoppin Johns
French fried taters
Crap and fall back in it
Deer ticks and hash
Tear you a new one
Hot on your heels
Gully washer
Brung
Warsh
Fly off the handle
Bleeding like a stuck pig
Haven't seen ya in a coon's age
Got an ax to grind
Scarce as hen's teeth
Doo-hickey
Fixing to
Spring chicken
White lightning
Tight as dick's hatband
Piddle
Lollygag
Shindig
What in the Sam Hill?
Wast
Sure as shootin'
Didn't stay long enough for the water to get hot
Humdinger
I didn't just fall off the mater truck today Pert near it
Full as a tick
 Smack dab in the middle
Gotta warsh and rinch these dishes
Ain't nerron left
Won't hit a lick of the stick
Tired as all get out.
Madder than a wet hen.

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