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In reply to the discussion: Do You Speak Southern? (knowing what certain phrases mean) [View all]Seeking Serenity
(2,845 posts)I've lived in the South all my life (and would never want to live anywhere else), but some of those things I'd never heard of, such as a belly washer. And "ain't hittin' on all cylinders" 'round here means "not very bright," not the "not feeling well," as that quiz suggested.
And the frog strangler meaning a heavy rain isn't a phrase from 'round here. Here, we'd call a heavy rain "a real gully washer." "D'joo hear that storm last night?" "Yep. That was a real gully washer."
And instead of "running on the rims" as an expression for exhaustion from hard work, we'd say "runnin' on fumes."
I said this one to a Yankee friend of mine, and she about bust a gut laughing. She asked me how my day had been, which had been a busy one, and I replied, "Honey, I've been hopping more than a one-legged man in an ass-kickin' contest."