Words or Phrases From Your Part of America

[HayesGreener]

"He'd have been a tall feller if he hadn't turned under so much for feet"

 

[papa]

Gona have to tie a brick on top his head to make him quit growin'

 

[OldGrunt]

Jeez Louise!
Goodnight Irene!

 

[trader]

All hat and no cattle

 

[HayesGreener]

"His elevator don't go all the way to the top"

 

[rcurtner]

"If a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his butt when he jumped."

 

[rcurtner]

Can't remember how it was used but, "If brains were made out of $hit you wouldn't stink."

 

[rcurtner]

When you tell someone how tall you are, and their reply is " Didn't know $hit could be stacked that high."

 

[OldGrunt]

Oh, another one from back on the farm, referring to the corn crop. "Knee high by the 4th of July.". That was for corn crops in the "upper" Midwest. Corn crops further south were probably taller by the 4th.

 

[OldGrunt]

And how can I forget calling cows?! "Come boss, come boss, come boss!".

 

[Belt Fed]

If the grasshoppers had tommy guns the birds wouldn't eat em

 

[wolfpack076]

Back in the day most men in my area of Pennsylvania worked in the mines (my Grandfather) and they were called "coal crackers". I still tell people when they ask me where from Pa. I am from and I say Coal Cracker County.

 

[Young1984]

My dad would say, "It's colder than a well diggers butt out here"

Mom would say this every summer....it will rain at the end of this dry spell

 

[youngolddude]

Uff da.

You beat me to it. More North than in the South, but I like to use it when I see a fat bottom girl, often wearing leggings. Uff da! Yikes!

 

[youngolddude]

I grew up on a dairy farm in the upper Midwest. I remember a lot of these phrases. But there is one my dad used to use a lot. And now I find myself using it all the time. "It'll put hair on your chest!".

and the next one will take it off.

 

[youngolddude]

yep, same here.

You ask me if I want a Coke, it better be one. For more generic drinks, Do you want a soda? Or, do you want a pop?

 

[youngolddude]

"His elevator don't go all the way to the top"

One short of a six pack.

 

[papa]

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

 

[youngolddude]

She's got a balcony you could do Shakespeare from.
She could **** the chrome off a trailer hitch.
You don't sweat much for a fat girl.
hung like a horse

 

[youngolddude]

That boy couldn't find (or fight) his way out of a paper bag.