Oh I love a good southern sayin’! I’ll tell ya there are some real humdingers out there. Without these sayings our conversations would be dull :).

I have compiled a list of 50 southern sayings that you may know. I haven’t heard all of them but I am guilty of saying most of these.

1. So good your tongue with slap your brains out (my husband says this all the time)
2. God love her heart
3. Quare
4. Madder than a wet hen
5. Too big for your britches
6. Break bad
7. Hold your horses
8. Longer than a night in jail
9. Reckon
10. All get out
11. Slicker than snot
12. Oopsy daisy (my 3 year olds favorite)
13. You’re preaching to the choir
14. Hit the hay
15. Gosh A’mighty
16. I declare (my husband and mother-in-law say this all the time)
17. Stinks to high heaven
18. For crying out loud
19. To the good Lord up above
20. Deader than a doorknob/door nail
21. Slicked back like a biting sow
22. You look so good I want to sop you up with a biscuit
23. Slower than a June bug in molasses
24. If the good lords willing and the creek don’t rise
25. What’s got you dandruff/dander up?
26. Fighting like a cat being baptized
27. Use some elbow grease
28. Living high on the hog
29. Hold your horses
30. You ain’t right (I say this all the time)
31. Don’t get me started (And this)
32. Youngens
33. Cute as a button
34. Bleed like a stuck pig
35. Diddly squat
36. Quit being ugly
37. Getting above your raising
38. Lord have Mercy
39. Gimme some sugar
40. How do you like them apples
41. Have you lost your ever loving mind
42. Goodness gracious
43. Come hug my neck
44. It’s over yonder
45. Heavens to Betsy
46. Tater
47. Sight for sore eyes
48. Kiss my grits
49. Hotter than a two dollar pistol
50. Come sit a spell

How many of these are you guilty of saying? I am guilty of using 36 on a regular basis. What does that say about me?