So my mom’s friend says to me the other day ever so slightly under her breath that, “somthin’ is rotten in Denmark” – talking about how some things just don’t seem right.
Southern women are full of phrases like this.
“It’s so durn hot out here, you could fry an egg on the pavement!”
“You’re just up poop creek without a pattle!”
“Well, wait, just one cotton-pickin’ minute”
“She’s about got as much ‘o personality as a sack ‘o potatoes.”
Well, the “rotten in Denmark” saying was a new one for me, and I googled it cause thats what I do, and “low and behold” discovered it was from Shakesphere!! Wow, we aren’t that “iggnnooor-a-mous afta-all.” So I had to revel in my little southern literature findings, and you can “bet your bottom dollar” I’ll be addin’ this new clever quote to my “evah day coonnnvah-say-shuns. (i.e. everyday conversations)
shaina jo says:
Barkin’ up the wrong tree.
I’m gonna go hog wild!
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.
August 13th, 2010 at 9:58 am
Jennifer says:
HAHA!! Yes, those are great!
August 13th, 2010 at 10:13 am
Ann says:
Ha! Love it.
I remember one time Anna Senn and I were finishing up dinner and she said, “I’m ’bout full as a tick on a coondawg!”
August 14th, 2010 at 9:13 am
Jennifer says:
HAHA!! Thats a good one Ann!
August 14th, 2010 at 11:56 pm
Amy says:
“Bless their heart.” cancels out anything bad you said in the previous sentence…in Southern speak.
August 17th, 2010 at 1:37 pm