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Traveling through the United States can feel like global globes, especially when you encounter dialects and slang that are not commonly heard in your parts. TheEnglish language has grown and developed differently in different parts of the country, but maybe no zone has used it and continues to use it, as colorful asSouth. That's why we gathered our 23 dictations from the south of quality, as well as what they mean and where they come from.

1. Blessed your heart.

Although this sentence can sincerely be served, it usually has an advantage. It isThe path of Couth Southerner to insult your intelligence without using as many words.

2. If I had my druthers.

When you hear this sentence, you can interpret it like: "If I had my way" or "if I had my choice." Merriam-Webster emphasizes that"Druher" has its origin in classical American fiction, whereMark TWAIN The characters Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn used it as a shortening of "would rather".

3. He has a dying duck adjustment.

This one is explicit enough, if you think of the sounds, a duck would leave this world. Someone says they have a "dying duck fit" is quite angry, put it slightly.

4. Hold your horses.

Another image is easy to ward off, you will hear tips from saying that way if you rush into action without thinking.

5. What in the SAM hill?

Who is "Sam Hill"? Why do the Sudnetters invoke his name instead of "hell"? Well, the ultimateOrigin of this exclamation Not known, but Wikipedia has five possible options listed, including a general store owner from Arizona and a mouth surveyor.

6. It is blocked higher than a light pole.

If a person "stuck" thinks they are better than everyone around them, someone who is "stuck a light pole" has serious ego problems.

7. Like everything go out.

When traveling to the south, "like any gain" is the only superlative you need.Merriam-Webster Date of this sentence, which can be used to modify almost all adjectives, return to 1849.

8. Fine that the hair of the frog.

Have you ever complimented a frog on their hair? Probably not. This is because, in the south of the South, the hair of a frog must be too beautiful to detect even this colorful compliment.

9. Rode hard and put away.

This one may seem a little blue, but it has a practical source. Anyone who knows the horses know they must be cooled andneat after a turn Before they are not illuminated for the night. So, a person who had a difficult day and is a bit worse for wear can be compared to a horse with a lazy owner.

10. If it was a snake, it would have bitten me.

We all had the experience of frantically looking for something that ended up being right in front of us. (Among us several times a day.) This sentence means that the object of your hunt was so close, he could have literally.

11. More than Carter had small pills.

According to the podcast of the languageA way with words, Variations on the saying: "More excusesthat Carter's has pills"Clear from a" very successful product called Small Carter Fireplace Pills "that" were highly marketed from the late 1880s and 1961 designed for fun TV advertisements. "

12. Swewein 'as a sinner at the church.

With as hot as possible in the southern states, we need many lively expressions to illustrate how to shorish one day.

13. Betsy Heaven.

The story can not agree on who is or who was the Beyy of this variation on "for the love of heaven", but she certainly left his mark on the slang of the South.

14. Give me sugar.

Instead of straight asking for a hug or kiss, chances are, your parents in the South kidnap you every time they have come to visit.

15. Top knee at a grasshopper.

According to the book Browse, the sentence"Knee-height to a grasshopper"-What refers to the small size associated with a young age - appeared for the first time inDemocratic review in 1851.

16. Madder a wet hen.

"The chickens sometimes enter a phase of" broodins ", which means they will do something to incubate their eggs and will act when farmers try to collect them," says the initiate ofThe origin of this saying. "Farmers Dunk Hens are therefore in cold water to" break "their fog ... and chickens do not like that."

17. I could eat the north of the northern end of a polecat linked to the south.

Or goat. Or moufette. The beginnings of this southern saying are lost time - just enough to say that it means that the speaker has vorced hunger.

18. JIMINY CHRISTMAS

ForTown and Country,True housewivesStar and beautiful southernTilsley Mortimerwrote that this seemingly absurd sentence is "a southern way of cursing polite And do not take the name of the Lord to vain. "According toAlmanac of the former farmer, it's always "a directreference toJesus Christ and dates back to 1664, when it was recorded for the first time as "Gemini", a twist on the Latin phraseJesu Domini."

19. BUSSUSER that a cat covering shit on marble floor.

Cat owners will not need us to explain this one. It is rooted in felines to cover their disorder, hence the invention of the litter box. Without waste available, it becomes a much more difficult job.

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20. Fixin 'at.

One of the most common and southern sentences still used, it means that you are on the point of (or think of) do something, that it makes a snack, go to work or give to someone A piece of your mind.

21. This dog does not hunt.

"This dog does not hunt" and similar sayings are mostPopular in Georgiawhere they can easily stay for an explanation that something will not work or does not work.

22. He does not have the good sense that God gave a goose.

You probably like to assume that you are smarter than this poultry of water, but if a south of Souther thinks that you are not, they will surely free you.

23. Gone Cattywampus.

According to useless etymology,The word "Cattywampus" has changed meaning over time. The adverb "Catawampusly" was exchangeable for "Avidly", while the name meant a "fantastic creature". In the 1840s, the site says that British writers used it to make fun of the South American slang. In its current meaning (so that something is from Askef or a team), Cattywampus has been fully adopted by culture, it was formerly fun to have fun.

24. She is ugly.

If a South Tell "ugly", it's probably not a shot on your physical appearance - it's a deeper critic. In the south, being "ugly" means that you are vulgar, rude or generally unpleasant to be around. So when this insult comes from your way, you'd better take a look at your ways and behaviors.

And for terms that another region is dearly, checkYou know you're from the Midwest if you know what these words mean.