My dad used to say fine as frog hair before we moved South! Awwww that's a lovely memory. But I love the addition of "Split 40 ways" I will now be adding that to my dad's colloquialisms, which I'm striving to keep alive To deep-six something is to throw it away A Finn is a five-dollar bill He'd complain if he was hung with a new rope Stuff like that Although I always thought... Once I became an adult, you definitely don't want to be hung with a new rope, apparently you want that thing seasoned. Sorry I realized it's a morbid piece of information but I did learn that learning historical stuff.
We used to say, "we will be there if the Lord's willing and the creek don't rise." (We will be there if something major doesn't stop us) Another one was, "if you don't believe me just hide and watch."
@@phyllisarrington7436 Oh, I’m not arguing with you. I have no idea how the saying was started years ago. I only know how we have always used it in my family.🤗🐝❤️
My mom would say that too! I'm going to look that one up.... Granny was right it means: to go about usually ostentatiously or indiscreetly with members of the opposite sex
That's the cutest, I miss my grandma also, she spoke very little English so we together laughed all day, she had a pray meeting & always served supper as they were leaving she said "God be w/ til we eat again" then she'd look at me, daku (was that right, we spoke Dakota) I said kinda it's till we meet again, so they said ok well come & eat anytime u want us🤣
@@nomdeplume2213 We always heard & said it, but it was said when a girl/woman walked with a definite twist of her bottom in a flirty way to get attention !!!
@@earthmama5561 For those who have never seen a possum up close and personal-like, they have a much bigger mouth than you'd think from looking at their head, and it's full of long, sharp teeth.
My husband is from Oklahoma, in fact all his friends called him Okie. When we first got married he had a funny saying for everything. I use to stop look at him, think about it then laugh up a storm. We have been together for 29 years. Love 💗 him
My grandfather liked to say “ trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear”, another- “ crookeder than a dogs hind leg”. Really like the old sayings and interested in their origins . Thank you for your very entertaining videos
Great to find someone who is proud of their southern tongue and not demonize it. I hate that our vocabulary and accents (Ive read that at one there were over 20 different, discernible dialects across Dixie) are being ridiculed and muddled away. Thank you for making this content.
My great grandma had a funny saying when someone said "what's that fer?" She'd reply, "Cat's fur!? Cat's fur is fer makin kitten britches!" Not sure where she got it, but it makes me smile.
Oh, yeah! Thanks for the memories and smiles. "She was flat outta her gourd! He sure got her goat - she thought he might been gallavantin' around. Ooowee! Mad as an ol' wet hen!"
Heard all these mostly from older people when I was growing up: "I swan to goodness" "Nervous as a nine-tailed cat on a porch full of rocking chairs" "Slower than molasses in January", "I don't know him from Adam's housecat" "Smack in the middle" "Just plum (plumb ?) crazy, I tell you"
My mom's family is from Appalachia and she always says "I swanny," I never could figure that out but this is the first time I've heard anyone else use that expression (or similar), I'm glad it's not just her being weird. :)
“Half past a freckle, quarter to a hair.” Heard that so many times from my dad whose family was from Big Stone Gap, VA. So many that I have heard that you mentioned from my Dad as he had to heard from his parents.
Here’s a few old sayings….That feller is smart as a tree full of owls…..She don’t know diddly….Man you look like the reared of hard times…She’s as purdy as a speckled pup…..What was he allowing about?….I never seen a more down in the mouth man.Hope you enjoyed these,really like your channel
I’m so glad you pronounce Appalachian the correct way. I’m a West Virginia native and my wife and I moved to Colorado for a year. One day at her work, the native Coloradons kept saying Appa-lay-shuh. My wife tried telling her that it’s pronounced Appa-latchun. That’s when they called her ignorant lol. It’s burnt my hind end every since
I am from the Midwest, and I have heard and or used about half of these. Another one I heard frequently when someone accidentally cut themselves, is for them to say, I am bleeding like a stuck hog.
If somebody ate too much my grandfather would say, "Every time his mouth opens his elbow bends." As a child I didn't understand it but it makes me laugh now.
My girlfriend is from Hendersonville, NC and when she's talking with friends or kin back home, she'd say to express a long time period, "It's been about a minute, since..." Or, when they are recollecting a fond memory, they'd say, "Oh my Mercy, I ain't thought a that in a Minit!" I love it...it's all very sweet and endearing.
Growing up in Oregon I idolized my Grandfather. He was born in Southern Illinois but his family came from Western Kentucky so many of the sayings you presented I have heard from his mouth. Some of his favorites, A lawyer is as crooked as a dogs hind leg.
My dear Mother who is now 95 (and still going strong) has a lot of funny ones like if a store was too expensive she would say "They're high as a cat's back", and instead of chest of drawers it was "chester drawers", and instead of fly swatter she called it a "fly flip". I didn't know that my Uncle Barn's real name was actually Byron until I grew up. If a storm is brewing we said "It's coming up a cloud"....and I could go on and on. Thank you Tipper for stirring up a lot of good old memories. Bless you!
My Daddy used to tell me eating greens would put hair on your chest. My sister and I would just laugh and tell him that was silly cause girls didn’t have hair on their chests. Thanks for bringing back some happy memories of laughing together! Jane from SC❤️🙏🏻
My Pappy from Southwestern PA, bordering on WV, said the same thing about healthy foods that I didn't want to eat. As a kid who was a picky eater and took things literally, it certainly didn't help! I spent my summers with my Momma and Pappy and went to school in NJ, and now that I'm grown and my Pappy has passed, these videos bring a lot of comfort to me. Thank you, Tipper ♥️ Erin from NJ, formerly of Southwestern PA
We're from Northern Indiana in an Amish community & many of your sayings were familiar. My superstitious German mom born in 1916, swore by foretelling severity of winter storms by the dark rings on a caterpillar in fall. If there were bubbles in the rain puddles it was a sure sign of rain again tomorrow. If a Cresent moon was able to hold water, it would not rain the next day. It was unlucky to lay a loaf of bread upside down. If you put an item of clothing on inside out, it was unlucky to turn it right-side out. Having her underwear or even a dress inside out was common. If someone got a burn she would blow on the burn, move her head up & down & side to side while saying a prayer to stop the pain. The ritual had to be passed on from a female to an unrelated male or visa versa. That one worked for sure on a burn I got to my entire palm cleaning the range after dinner. I never got a blister & the pain stopped in 5 minutes. My husband got a 3rd ° burn on his ankle so bad dr talked about amputating. After mom worked on it, he never took another pain pill & the wound healed in 6 months with no skin graphs. My great aunt always set an extra table place at every meal in case a visitor stopped in hungry.. I love your show & so admire your simple & God-fearing way of life. I've wanted to live there for years. I'm still breathing so maybe someday. God has blessed your family richly.
I never realized that my dad's sayings were so rooted in Appalachia. His grandparents on his dad's side and his mother all came from there, so I suppose that's where he learned them. But truly - I thought EVERYONE said many of those! :)
I used to hear my grandmother say, "Over yon." It was her abbreviation for, "Over yonder," if she was saying where something was or where she was going, etc. My dad used to say you don't get silk from a sow's ear, meaning: you won't get good quality items from a bad quality source. He also used to say, when we kids wanted something he wasn't going to give us, "Spit in one hand and want in the other. See which one gets fills up first." (That was the PG version of that saying.) My mother used to say, "Hell's bells," till she heard us repeat it after her. We used to call things that were out of plumb in some way "kattywampus" or "whopperjawed." If something was in a mess, it was all "gaumed up." Sure is fun remembering all these sayings! 😀
In 2007, I was poisoned by medical malpractice, resulting in severe brain damage and daily seizures. (The first six years were awful, but now I'm pretty much healed up.) I also, for some reason, was sure that I'd never play online multiplayer shooter games. Something odd happened and I ended up finding a new shooter game (nobody gets hurt!) which had good design sense, and even in training mode, when I was in that fantasy world, my seizures stopped!! I played A LOT, and became very good, and over the next eight years (before the game was killed by aimbots), I became one of the top players. At some point, I wanted to sign up and collect shopping credits for game gear. But I needed a name...what to choose? I thought of non-sense words, and considered Cattywhumpus. Too many letters, so I trimmed them to Umpus. From the raw materials of Hell, I had created my own hero, and Umpus was his name. (If you know a person with brain damage, cut them a lot of slack; because healing a brain is enormously exhausting.)
I accidentally told a first grade California student to please get me a book over yonder. Realized what I said and corrected myself. The principal called me her little Southern teacher!
My grandmother would sometimes say "y'all be perty" when kids were wound up or snapping at each other. Saying goodbye was sometimes "see you in the funny paper".
I heard a lot of those (or least half) from grandparents or great-grandparents. Instead of saying stacked up like cord wood, my Grandpa used to say "Look at em, lined up like 3 rows of okree
My dad would say that they worked him until he was white eyed. I never understood the reference until I was worked till white eyed! LOL. I moved to Florida and everyone called me Tennessee. 44 years later and they still call me that!
Now hold on a second, I get it both ways. My grandmum on my Dad's side was from Stoke Sub Hamden, England. And I was raised in Appalachian Virginia. And I got to spend 4 years in England myself. So I'm completely messed up with accents.
@@jameskniskern2261 I can’t say I’ve ever been to (or heard of until just now) Stoke Sub Hamden but that must be confusing. I looked up ‘eyes bigger than you belly’ and it’s a direct translation of the French, from Montaigne’s essays, that’s been used for over 200 years on both sides of the Atlantic. ‘Gets my goat’ is apparently from the notion of kidding someone or being angry like a charging goat and is American in origin from around 100 years ago.
I live here in Alabama, I have heard these sayings all my life. I still use these ,alot are funny and also have allot of meaning like don't count your chickens before they hatch, we all know what that means, thanks for sharing.
I usually don't comment on these older posts ,but when you said 'tough as a pine knot" i remembered that if you over cooked the meat for dinner it was " Tough as a boiled owl". Or if you were in a boat and the waves were choppy you would say its "rougher than a cats ass" Or if you were feeling good you were "fine as frogs hair".
Love these old sayings. Heard the most of these all my life. My grandkids look at me like I'm crazy when I use these sayings. Your videos are always so interesting. Thank you
My favorite saying is/was always "I swear to my time!" When you really need to express a maximum frustration about an action something or someone has done.
I loved asking my grandma "how are you?" She would say "finer than frog's hair". You're channel has and continues to bring back many wonderful memories for me. I feel so blessed to have found your channel. ❤️
I only knew one of my grandmas - and she would say "hit" for the word "it." Always amazed me as a child. She is the only person in our family that said this!
My grandmother use to say "They would argue with a stop sign and not a letter on it". I've never heard anyone say it anymore. I still use it today. I used it more when my sons were younger.
I’m from Texas and wanted to share one with you.... She can get glad in the same britches she got mad in! That’s what my mama would say if a person was mad about something 🤣 I really enjoy your videos!
I was amused to hear your Appalachian sayings. I've heard many of them used here in Australia. As sure as God made little green apples, get your goat, put hair on your chest, gave him what for, get gussied up (older generation), happy as a pig in mud, see a man about a dog (or 'go and check the tractor' if you're in the country), two hairs past a freckle (funny when I was a kid, not so much these days), eyes are bigger than your belly. I think you'd love Aussie slang, too.
I've heard many of these in my 59 years! My great aunt Gladys (from Florida) Would say "Well for cryin in a bucket!" Meaning, well that's really something amazing!
One made popular because of the Beverly Hillbillies is "tarnation" as in "What in tarnation?" as a saying of confusion or bewilderment. I've read some say it was a euphemism for "damnation" therefore "What in Hell?" But, my cousin heard my grandfather (born around the turn of the 20th century) once say "What in the entire nation?" as in "What in the United States?" much like how many say, "What in the world...?" Therefore he was of the mind that "tarnation" was a colloquial abbreviation of "entire nation." Tar = entire common in Appalachia as many pronounce the /ire/ sound as /ar/. Loretta Lynn in "Coal Miner's Daughter" The work we done was hard/ At night we'd sleep 'cause we were tired Dispatch might send out an engine to put out a "far" (fire.) Personally, this abbreviation finding makes more sense to me than what I've seen floated around about "damnation." Some folk around here would "swonney" - a euphemism for "swear." An expression of exasperation - "I'll swonney, I told him to clean that up 10 times and he still ain't done it." They'd say this due to the command in the Bible "swear not all all neither by..." and the rest of Jesus' words Matt 5:34-37. So they wouldn't say, "I swear, I told him... etc." It was ironic as that they would do in spirit the very thing commanded against but just use a different nonsense word than the literal one from the Bible, like "I didn't steal it, I just borrowed it indefinitely."
One of my old friends in Tupelo Mississippi said to me when I questioned the accuracy of his story “if I tell you a rooster dips snuff, you can look under his wing and find the can”. I get a lot of mileage out of that one. I’ve enjoyed your videos. I grew up around Chattanooga TN. I haven’t heard some of those sayings in a long time. I love a good sayin’.
@@CelebratingAppalachia it’s lost on a lot of folks but that’s part of the fun. People look at you funny. I now live in Guilford Co. Lots of transplants here. Transplants; I’m being charitable. 🙂
@@CelebratingAppalachia I can go all day with these, but like I said earlier, some, if not most, shouldn't be said in polite company, papaw was a coal miner in eastern ky
Oh man. Watching the video and reading the comments makes me realize just how broad the swath of euphemisms. It amazes me. More importantly, it warms my heart to remember so many of these, some I use in passing, too. Our vernacular stays with us and transcends time. Gee I hope my kids will know some of these as well. Definitely part of a dynamic culture.
I know I know!!! You me and the fence post!!!! Befor telephones ladies would meet at the fence around here... they did their gossipin or tell each other what was going on at their house. Being hills and valleys to the next farm they would haller meet me at the fence or set a time for a meetin
I have used a lot of those which surprises me as I have never lived in Appalachia nor have any of my relatives. "I gave them what for" I always understood it to be, what for to think about" of what for was coming to him" meaning something similar to I gave him a piece of my mind and he won't like what he got. When I took a class in linguistics I read that because Appalachia was isolated for so long the speech there did not change as much and that the dialect and accent may be the closest modern dialect to Shekspirin English still spoken. At any rate it ia beautiful and a joy to listen to.
I would totally lost in an Appalachian conversation. Spanish, grew up in NYC, later on after marriage in NJ, there's a lot of different people with different nationalities. I always liked the American ways and your music is wonderful. Very lively and fun to dance. I have seen them on UA-cam. Thanks for sharing your culture with us.
Thank you for always putting a smile on my face. Growing up being the oldest of 4 we were Blessed to find out my mom was going to have a baby. I was 13 when he was born. We had to be creative to find ways to get him to eat. He wanted to be grown so bad. I was the cook & chief bottle washer. Our baby did not like to eat much at all. We got him to eat by saying, I bet you wont eat that. One summer night I said eating kale would put hair on his chest. After each bite he lifted his shirt and said I feel it growing! Can you see it!?! Thank you for all you share. God Bless you.
Aww, so sorry you 're crying. But I know how you feel about missin' the old ways and our dear family members who meant so much to us. I'm so thankful to have grown up in the 50s and 60s and gettin to hear many of these sayings from my parents and grandparents. They were definately the good old days for me. For now, although you posted your message a month ago, I'm sending you a smile and a prayer where ever you are.
@@Luellen.24 Thank you for doing so. I understand you have so many visitors now, that it's hard to keep up. I hope our folks better days are ahead of us. At least your channel gives us all hope for the future and understanding of the past. Thank you for that, and our grandmothers for what they gave us.
My grandma had a couple of sayings that I found so funny when I was a kid. One was when she answered the phone. If the person calling didn’t talk she would say “ talk a$$!, mouth can’t!”. The other was when she got aggravated with someone she would threaten to “rip their damn leg off and beat em to death with it!”. I miss her every day.
I'm very familiar with these and others ...my family from southern Appalachia in north Carolina lived way back up in the head of a hollar where you had to drive 2 miles , some of it through the creek and up the creek itself, secluded, beautiful and peaceful....I still say some of these...thanks tipper ....God bless...🙏
My wife’s dad was from W. Virginia. That’s where she got the saying “ Her crap don’t stink” , meaning she’s a snob. Another one is “ He wouldnt hit a lick at a snake “ , in other words, he’s lazy. My dad ( from sw Virginia ) would say “ He’s got a ax to grind,” meaning someone was holding a grudge and might do something about it. And he would say “ keep it between the ditches” when we were parting company for awhile.
You have just touched the tip of the iceberg when it come Appalenglish! Applanguage? I could start writing down mountain words and phrases as I remember them if you are interested in using them to further this channel.
So Interesting. I live in the Caribbean, The Dominican republic 🌴 Down Here, My Family from the country side and from the Mountains, They have their own regional accent and ways. Same as it happens in the United States. Thank you for teaching us about the Beautiful Appalachian culture. God Bless you and yours ❤
I am really enjoying your videos. They bring back so many memories of growing up and people I love dearly. A simpler, better life. Too much hustle and bustle now.
My Great Aunt told me that going 40 meant like 40 acres meant you run all day seem like ya'd run 40 acres. I have used most all of these and then some.
I grew up in the flatland, and I heard it "go like 60." My sister had a landlord that complained about a cold, windy day by saying, "there aint nothin' between us and the North Pole but a bobwire fence!"
I grew up with my granny using the Appalachian language. up the creek without a paddle, haint = ghost. look at that tree its ugly as a haint. look over there he is torn up. thank you for keeping the tradition alive 😊
I love this one!!! My Dad said so many of these sayings, it brings back a lot of good memories! I should use some of them more so they don’t get forgotten. It makes everyday life a little more fun!
I just thought of another one. When I was very little, and my mother was helping me take my shirt off, she would say, "skin a rabbit!" I heard that at such an early age that I never really understood until I was much older what that literally meant. I said it once to my young daughter when I was helping her change her clothes. I didn't think about it, it just came to me. And my wife, who doesn't have Appalachian heritage, looked at me sideways. ;)
I live in California, and my family uses a bunch of those sayings; during the war they came out from Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma to work in the shipyards in San Francisco.
This may have been mentioned before but I’m new so I will add it anyway. Poor as Jobs turkey. I still say that. Thank you for your passion for Appalachian. Dr. Phil uses some of these sayings...that dog won’t hunt. Fish or cut bait. I find this so interesting and I am never ashamed to be southern or from The Appalachians.
I was just a very young boy and sitting with an old timer on a bench at the courthouse square one Saturday. He was whittling on a piece of cedar. My mom gave me a Coca Cola and a bag of peanuts to give him. I had my RC cola and a Zagnut candy bar. Well.. he took a sip of coke and poured some nuts in the coke. He took another sip and burped and started chewing on the nuts. He grinned real big and said... “ Now that’s what put the hair on the cat’s poohstinker right there now” !!! 😳 I’m sure I looked pretty puzzled thinking about that one. Wasn’t long after that, some teenage boy walked by, all dressed up. The old timer kinda sneered and said..” There goes that ring tailed tooter “ 😳. Once again I was confused. He was speaking a different language. I asked my uncle about it later. He said something like a ring tailed tooter was a rooster and that young boy must have been strutting around like a rooster trying to get noticed. My favorite was one my mom used to say. We would be in town running errands in our work clothes and we’d see some grown woman all dressed up flirting with some man and she’d say...”Boy she’s really putting on the dog”. I never really thought about it till later in life. Back in the old days when women got all dressed up , the rich women had a fox fur draped around their neck complete with head and tail. People without such a fur, referred to that fox fur as a dog. Wearing it draped over your shoulder or around your neck was “Putting on the dog”. That’s the way I heard it. Lol I loved sitting with the old timers while mom did her shopping. Learned to love peanuts in my drink too. I always drank RC or Double Cola. Jim in Tennessee
Great story! Am a Coca Cola guy myself but have a sneaking fondness for RC, which I’d drink at my late Louisville father-in-law’s house, albeit without peanuts, although maybe it’s worth a try. Can’t stand Pepsi. Will drink Mr. Pibb at any excuse.
Yep a rc cola n peanuts . As kids we called it peanut sipping . If we stopped at a store n dad ask did we want something we would say give me sum fixins for peanut sipping and he knew rc n peanuts 😂
Lucy bell Same with my mom's people in Middle Tennessee. And my dad's, in NW Alabama. (Of course, my uncle worked for Coca-Cola, so when we said, "Hey, want a coke?," at our houses, there was like as not a genuine Coca-Cola product involved 😂😂 ... but RC was known & tolerated 😉 - RC & a Moon Pie for a country lunch alternative to Coke & peanuts, of course, but Mom & Uncle had also both grown up with it as teens post WWII, and Dad had, in his smaller town, too. But certainly by my time, Coke obviously took precedence. There was just one thing we, none of us, ever, _ever_ said - and that was the "P" word. 🤣🤣🤣)
Forgive my language, but my granny was a card. When we use to get dirty or make a mess. She use to say "you got that everywhere from a$$hole to appetite" She was the only person I ever heard say that. Thanks for your videos😄
My mother-in-law, from Eastern TN used to say (about a person) "She's so spoilt, salt won't save her". I love your shows. The food, stories & your accent take me right back to the old days. Thank you!
I just moved to WV from Oklahoma and I LOVE the way people talk! So FAST and funny! 😄 My favorite new words I’ve learned since being here are “holler” (I found out I live in one lol) and “youns.”
I had to laugh the other day. My cousin told me she wouldn't care to pick me up at station in Cookeviille, TN. In Indiana, that is a polite way of saying you don't want to do something, which is the opposite of what she meant. I have heard you mention this in a previous video. I have heard quite a few sayings you mention but some are new to me.
I absolutely loved this! I use or have heard used many of these sayings. A few were new and I am taking note of them. My Grandma used to say, when she was disheveled, "Oh, I look like the warpin' ends of windy weather." I've heard "Well, 'pon my honor!" "Bigger than the broad side of a barn." " "To small to swing a cat." or "You could throw a cat under the doors."
I’ve heard many of these sayings that you’ve mentioned here and many I’ve never heard. My gramma used to say: “well whose been killin’ squirrels on your farm?” Would be used if a person was grouchy or cranky. She was born & raised in the hills of Ca. But her folks came from Scotland. I don’t know if that’s part of their heritage or not.
Two from my dad from south eastern KY: "He squealed like a stuck hog". And "That dog just ain't gonna hunt", meaning that is a poor idea or it just isn't going to work.
Great video! I heard a lot of those sayings from my mom’s side of the family when I was a kid. Instead of saying “going to see a man about a dog”, I’ve heard it as “going to see a man about a horse”, but it meant the same thing.
Something I say a lot and haven't heard folks say in years is "well then there now!" Hadn't heard it in a long time and the other night I was watching in the heat of the night and heard the actor who played in walking tall say it. I live in the Hoosier state but I'm from East Ky
I just caught this one, while reviewing your channel. I like hearing these phrases and words. I’ve heard a lot this growing up. It’s nice to have them explained. I know, I can research them on my own but you make it so much easier! 😊🇨🇦
I like “If that boy’s brains were leather he wouldn’t have enough to saddle a junebug.”
"I ain't seen you in a month of Sundays!" was Ganny's favorite and Mama's was, "I'm as fine as a frog hair split 40 ways!"
My dad used to say fine as frog hair before we moved South!
Awwww that's a lovely memory.
But I love the addition of
"Split 40 ways"
I will now be adding that to my dad's colloquialisms, which I'm striving to keep alive
To deep-six something is to throw it away
A Finn is a five-dollar bill
He'd complain if he was hung with a new rope
Stuff like that
Although I always thought... Once I became an adult, you definitely don't want to be hung with a new rope, apparently you want that thing seasoned.
Sorry I realized it's a morbid piece of information but I did learn that learning historical stuff.
We used to say, "we will be there if the Lord's willing and the creek don't rise." (We will be there if something major doesn't stop us)
Another one was, "if you don't believe me just hide and watch."
Crick. Creek = crick. "God willin' and the crick don't rise!"
@@jameskniskern2261 Yep! Some people said that instead.😊🐝
Come hell or high water
@@phyllisarrington7436 That’s not the way we used it. We meant if the water in the creek doesn’t rise, blocking the way out. We will be there🤗🐝❤️
@@phyllisarrington7436 Oh, I’m not arguing with you. I have no idea how the saying was started years ago. I only know how we have always used it in my family.🤗🐝❤️
Out with a girl who wasn’t my girlfriend and granny would always say, “You been out Gallivantin’ “ 😁
My granny used to call it "whore hopn the roads".🤣🤣🤣🤣 when talking to my uncles
Steer clear from them holler hussies. 🤣
My mom would say that too! I'm going to look that one up....
Granny was right it means: to go about usually ostentatiously or indiscreetly with members of the opposite sex
My momma and daddy would always use these sayings. I love them!
That's the cutest, I miss my grandma also, she spoke very little English so we together laughed all day, she had a pray meeting & always served supper as they were leaving she said "God be w/ til we eat again" then she'd look at me, daku (was that right, we spoke Dakota) I said kinda it's till we meet again, so they said ok well come & eat anytime u want us🤣
My grandfather used to say “she’s got a hitch in her get-along” when referring to someone with a limp.
Omg i still say that cuz my papa says it, im 33 🤣
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We always heard & said it, but it was said when a girl/woman walked with a definite twist of her bottom in a flirty way to get attention !!!
I always heard it "she's got a hitch in her gitty-up"
@@Vader99ify We always said hitch in her giddy up too
I still say that cuz my Mama did!
My dad used to say, “ she’s cuter than a speckled pup!” usually in reference to kids or little girls
''grinning like a possum'' the cherokee name of the possum translates as ""the grinner''
Clyde-that's a good one!
They don't look happy when they're grinning... yikes
Omg my dad is half texan half cherokee and that was his favorite saying. "Grinning like a opossum eating shit" 🤣
@@earthmama5561 For those who have never seen a possum up close and personal-like, they have a much bigger mouth than you'd think from looking at their head, and it's full of long, sharp teeth.
I heard it " grinnin like a possom eatin shat off a wire brush"
My husband is from Oklahoma, in fact all his friends called him Okie. When we first got married he had a funny saying for everything. I use to stop look at him, think about it then laugh up a storm. We have been together for 29 years. Love 💗 him
Granny used to say "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride" back in NE Tennessee.
My grandfather liked to say “ trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear”, another- “ crookeder than a dogs hind leg”. Really like the old sayings and interested in their origins . Thank you for your very entertaining videos
My Grandfather said that too and if we got to loud Mom would say, pipe down.
Great to find someone who is proud of their southern tongue and not demonize it. I hate that our vocabulary and accents (Ive read that at one there were over 20 different, discernible dialects across Dixie) are being ridiculed and muddled away. Thank you for making this content.
Well, they can ridicule if they want, but at least we watched Sesame Street when they taught the letter R
My great grandma had a funny saying when someone said "what's that fer?" She'd reply, "Cat's fur!? Cat's fur is fer makin kitten britches!"
Not sure where she got it, but it makes me smile.
If you said “time to pee on the fire and call in the dogs” my dad would say “just make sure you don’t pee on dogs and call in the fire” 🤣🤣
😀 LOL!!
Oh, yeah! Thanks for the memories and smiles. "She was flat outta her gourd! He sure got her goat - she thought he might been gallavantin' around. Ooowee! Mad as an ol' wet hen!"
Heard all these mostly from older people when I was growing up:
"I swan to goodness"
"Nervous as a nine-tailed cat on a porch full of rocking chairs"
"Slower than molasses in January",
"I don't know him from Adam's housecat"
"Smack in the middle"
"Just plum (plumb ?) crazy, I tell you"
My mom's family is from Appalachia and she always says "I swanny," I never could figure that out but this is the first time I've heard anyone else use that expression (or similar), I'm glad it's not just her being weird. :)
@@DerekCroxtonWestphalia I heard Well, I’ll Swanee take! Something to do with the Swanee River but that’s all I understood.
I remember hearing my mawmaw (granny) saying "well I swanny." Not sure if that meant her way of saying "thing(s) were not going her way".
@@lindahefner6711 I've heard I swannie said in place of I swear
I've heard long tailed cat with the rocking chairs.
"Happier than a dead pig in the sunshine" describes when it begins to bloat, the jowls retract, baring the teeth and showing a big "smile".
Now that makes sense!
“Half past a freckle, quarter to a hair.” Heard that so many times from my dad whose family was from Big Stone Gap, VA. So many that I have heard that you mentioned from my Dad as he had to heard from his parents.
"Two hairs past a freckle, Eastern Elbow Time"!
Now that brings back some memories of my dad saying she same thing if I didn't have a watch on.
Matt Gilly - My parents are also from Big Stone Gap. They move to WV before I was born.
Here’s a few old sayings….That feller is smart as a tree full of owls…..She don’t know diddly….Man you look like the reared of hard times…She’s as purdy as a speckled pup…..What was he allowing about?….I never seen a more down in the mouth man.Hope you enjoyed these,really like your channel
My W.Virginian dad would say, "It beats a sharp stick in the eye," if we were disappointed about having to settle for something.
I’m so glad you pronounce Appalachian the correct way. I’m a West Virginia native and my wife and I moved to Colorado for a year. One day at her work, the native Coloradons kept saying Appa-lay-shuh. My wife tried telling her that it’s pronounced Appa-latchun. That’s when they called her ignorant lol. It’s burnt my hind end every since
I am from the Midwest, and I have heard and or used about half of these. Another one I heard frequently when someone accidentally cut themselves, is for them to say, I am bleeding like a stuck hog.
If somebody ate too much my grandfather would say, "Every time his mouth opens his elbow bends." As a child I didn't understand it but it makes me laugh now.
I always heard it this way, "every time his elbow bends his mouth flies open"! Either way is funny! 😊
My girlfriend is from Hendersonville, NC and when she's talking with friends or kin back home, she'd say to express a long time period, "It's been about a minute, since..." Or, when they are recollecting a fond memory, they'd say, "Oh my Mercy, I ain't thought a that in a Minit!" I love it...it's all very sweet and endearing.
Growing up in Oregon I idolized my Grandfather. He was born in Southern Illinois but his family came from Western Kentucky so many of the sayings you presented I have heard from his mouth. Some of his favorites, A lawyer is as crooked as a dogs hind leg.
Yes, I grew up in So Ill and was always aware of how lo realized the culture is.
"Out of your gourd..." we heard that all the time growing up...
My dear Mother who is now 95 (and still going strong) has a lot of funny ones like if a store was too expensive she would say "They're high as a cat's back", and instead of chest of drawers it was "chester drawers", and instead of fly swatter she called it a "fly flip". I didn't know that my Uncle Barn's real name was actually Byron until I grew up. If a storm is brewing we said "It's coming up a cloud"....and I could go on and on. Thank you Tipper for stirring up a lot of good old memories. Bless you!
My Daddy used to tell me eating greens would put hair on your chest. My sister and I would just laugh and tell him that was silly cause girls didn’t have hair on their chests. Thanks for bringing back some happy memories of laughing together! Jane from SC❤️🙏🏻
My Pappy from Southwestern PA, bordering on WV, said the same thing about healthy foods that I didn't want to eat. As a kid who was a picky eater and took things literally, it certainly didn't help! I spent my summers with my Momma and Pappy and went to school in NJ, and now that I'm grown and my Pappy has passed, these videos bring a lot of comfort to me. Thank you, Tipper ♥️
Erin from NJ, formerly of Southwestern PA
We're from Northern Indiana in an Amish community & many of your sayings were familiar. My superstitious German mom born in 1916, swore by foretelling severity of winter storms by the dark rings on a caterpillar in fall. If there were bubbles in the rain puddles it was a sure sign of rain again tomorrow. If a Cresent moon was able to hold water, it would not rain the next day. It was unlucky to lay a loaf of bread upside down. If you put an item of clothing on inside out, it was unlucky to turn it right-side out. Having her underwear or even a dress inside out was common. If someone got a burn she would blow on the burn, move her head up & down & side to side while saying a prayer to stop the pain. The ritual had to be passed on from a female to an unrelated male or visa versa. That one worked for sure on a burn I got to my entire palm cleaning the range after dinner. I never got a blister & the pain stopped in 5 minutes. My husband got a 3rd ° burn on his ankle so bad dr talked about amputating. After mom worked on it, he never took another pain pill & the wound healed in 6 months with no skin graphs. My great aunt always set an extra table place at every meal in case a visitor stopped in hungry.. I love your show & so admire your simple & God-fearing way of life. I've wanted to live there for years. I'm still breathing so maybe someday. God has blessed your family richly.
I never realized that my dad's sayings were so rooted in Appalachia. His grandparents on his dad's side and his mother all came from there, so I suppose that's where he learned them. But truly - I thought EVERYONE said many of those! :)
Do you hear the sound around you? On video. And the fliitter of bugs around you? That is mountain magic and music. I will always love it. Thank you.
I used to hear my grandmother say, "Over yon." It was her abbreviation for, "Over yonder," if she was saying where something was or where she was going, etc.
My dad used to say you don't get silk from a sow's ear, meaning: you won't get good quality items from a bad quality source.
He also used to say, when we kids wanted something he wasn't going to give us, "Spit in one hand and want in the other. See which one gets fills up first." (That was the PG version of that saying.)
My mother used to say, "Hell's bells," till she heard us repeat it after her.
We used to call things that were out of plumb in some way "kattywampus" or "whopperjawed." If something was in a mess, it was all "gaumed up."
Sure is fun remembering all these sayings! 😀
Or it could be whop sided lol that’s how we heard it
In 2007, I was poisoned by medical malpractice, resulting in severe brain damage and daily seizures. (The first six years were awful, but now I'm pretty much healed up.) I also, for some reason, was sure that I'd never play online multiplayer shooter games. Something odd happened and I ended up finding a new shooter game (nobody gets hurt!) which had good design sense, and even in training mode, when I was in that fantasy world, my seizures stopped!! I played A LOT, and became very good, and over the next eight years (before the game was killed by aimbots), I became one of the top players. At some point, I wanted to sign up and collect shopping credits for game gear. But I needed a name...what to choose? I thought of non-sense words, and considered Cattywhumpus. Too many letters, so I trimmed them to Umpus. From the raw materials of Hell, I had created my own hero, and Umpus was his name. (If you know a person with brain damage, cut them a lot of slack; because healing a brain is enormously exhausting.)
@@823850 Wow! What a story!
I accidentally told a first grade California student to please get me a book over yonder. Realized what I said and corrected myself. The principal called me her little Southern teacher!
My grandmother would sometimes say "y'all be perty" when kids were wound up or snapping at each other. Saying goodbye was sometimes "see you in the funny paper".
My mom used to say. "You sound like a the southend of a north bound mule"
Here's one that my grandma used to say "she ain't got the sense that god gave a goose"
She thought she was smarter than other women lol
We said " a wooden goose" which was even dumber!
I heard a lot of those (or least half) from grandparents or great-grandparents. Instead of saying stacked up like cord wood, my Grandpa used to say "Look at em, lined up like 3 rows of okree
My dad would say someone "worked him like a rented mule".
Or worked like a "barred mule". Barred = borrowed
My dad would say that they worked him until he was white eyed. I never understood the reference until I was worked till white eyed! LOL. I moved to Florida and everyone called me Tennessee. 44 years later and they still call me that!
Some are recognisable in the UK: get your goat, give him what for. I thought hair past a freckle was a Scottish thing!
It probably is, that's where many in Appalachia descend from.
I would ask my mom what time it was, she Always said," it's time all old dogs were dead, ain't you glad you're a pup?"
‘It gets my goat’, ‘eyes bigger than your belly’ are used all the time in England and many of the others are similar to things we’d say.
Some of the US / Australian / etc accents, grammar and dialects are like colonial era British English trapped in amber.
Now hold on a second, I get it both ways. My grandmum on my Dad's side was from Stoke Sub Hamden, England. And I was raised in Appalachian Virginia. And I got to spend 4 years in England myself. So I'm completely messed up with accents.
@@jameskniskern2261 I can’t say I’ve ever been to (or heard of until just now) Stoke Sub Hamden but that must be confusing. I looked up ‘eyes bigger than you belly’ and it’s a direct translation of the French, from Montaigne’s essays, that’s been used for over 200 years on both sides of the Atlantic. ‘Gets my goat’ is apparently from the notion of kidding someone or being angry like a charging goat and is American in origin from around 100 years ago.
My folks were from Iowa and I grew up with almost all of those! Made me a mite homesick tonight, it did.
The funniest saying I know is from my grandmother; "If you're looking for sympathy it's in the dictionary between shit and syphilis."
That made me laugh out loud. I want to say that to a bunch of people.
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Major payne said that as well
@@face.- I bet he got it from her because I heard her say that growing up in the early 70s.
@@603storm probably so!
I live here in Alabama, I have heard these sayings all my life. I still use these ,alot are funny and also have allot of meaning like don't count your chickens before they hatch, we all know what that means, thanks for sharing.
I'm fom Charleston, SC and my mama grew up in Virginia. I knew most of these and they made me very homesick. Thanks for the video. Very enjoyable!
I usually don't comment on these older posts ,but when you said 'tough as a pine knot" i remembered that if you over cooked the meat for dinner it was " Tough as a boiled owl". Or if you were in a boat and the waves were choppy you would say its "rougher than a cats ass" Or if you were feeling good you were "fine as frogs hair".
Love those 😀
Love these old sayings. Heard the most of these all my life. My grandkids look at me like I'm crazy when I use these sayings. Your videos are always so interesting. Thank you
My favorite saying is/was always "I swear to my time!" When you really need to express a maximum frustration about an action something or someone has done.
I loved asking my grandma "how are you?" She would say "finer than frog's hair".
You're channel has and continues to bring back many wonderful memories for me. I feel so blessed to have found your channel. ❤️
I only knew one of my grandmas - and she would say "hit" for the word "it." Always amazed me as a child. She is the only person in our family that said this!
My mother and her folk exchange "hit" for "it" as well.
My grandmother use to say "They would argue with a stop sign and not a letter on it". I've never heard anyone say it anymore. I still use it today. I used it more when my sons were younger.
I’m from Texas and wanted to share one with you....
She can get glad in the same britches she got mad in!
That’s what my mama would say if a person was mad about something 🤣
I really enjoy your videos!
Love that!
I was amused to hear your Appalachian sayings. I've heard many of them used here in Australia. As sure as God made little green apples, get your goat, put hair on your chest, gave him what for, get gussied up (older generation), happy as a pig in mud, see a man about a dog (or 'go and check the tractor' if you're in the country), two hairs past a freckle (funny when I was a kid, not so much these days), eyes are bigger than your belly. I think you'd love Aussie slang, too.
How wonderful! I know I would love it 😀
I've heard many of these in my 59 years!
My great aunt Gladys (from Florida)
Would say "Well for cryin in a bucket!"
Meaning, well that's really something amazing!
One made popular because of the Beverly Hillbillies is "tarnation" as in "What in tarnation?" as a saying of confusion or bewilderment. I've read some say it was a euphemism for "damnation" therefore "What in Hell?" But, my cousin heard my grandfather (born around the turn of the 20th century) once say "What in the entire nation?" as in "What in the United States?" much like how many say, "What in the world...?" Therefore he was of the mind that "tarnation" was a colloquial abbreviation of "entire nation." Tar = entire common in Appalachia as many pronounce the /ire/ sound as /ar/. Loretta Lynn in "Coal Miner's Daughter"
The work we done was hard/
At night we'd sleep 'cause we were tired
Dispatch might send out an engine to put out a "far" (fire.) Personally, this abbreviation finding makes more sense to me than what I've seen floated around about "damnation."
Some folk around here would "swonney" - a euphemism for "swear." An expression of exasperation - "I'll swonney, I told him to clean that up 10 times and he still ain't done it." They'd say this due to the command in the Bible "swear not all all neither by..." and the rest of Jesus' words Matt 5:34-37. So they wouldn't say, "I swear, I told him... etc." It was ironic as that they would do in spirit the very thing commanded against but just use a different nonsense word than the literal one from the Bible, like "I didn't steal it, I just borrowed it indefinitely."
One of my old friends in Tupelo Mississippi said to me when I questioned the accuracy of his story “if I tell you a rooster dips snuff, you can look under his wing and find the can”. I get a lot of mileage out of that one. I’ve enjoyed your videos. I grew up around Chattanooga TN. I haven’t heard some of those sayings in a long time. I love a good sayin’.
Love that rooster saying 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia it’s lost on a lot of folks but that’s part of the fun. People look at you funny. I now live in Guilford Co. Lots of transplants here. Transplants; I’m being charitable. 🙂
@@CelebratingAppalachia I can go all day with these, but like I said earlier, some, if not most, shouldn't be said in polite company, papaw was a coal miner in eastern ky
1 cleaner saying he's like a lost ball in high weeds, not too bright
Oh man. Watching the video and reading the comments makes me realize just how broad the swath of euphemisms. It amazes me. More importantly, it warms my heart to remember so many of these, some I use in passing, too. Our vernacular stays with us and transcends time. Gee I hope my kids will know some of these as well. Definitely part of a dynamic culture.
I know I know!!! You me and the fence post!!!! Befor telephones ladies would meet at the fence around here... they did their gossipin or tell each other what was going on at their house. Being hills and valleys to the next farm they would haller meet me at the fence or set a time for a meetin
I have used a lot of those which surprises me as I have never lived in Appalachia nor have any of my relatives. "I gave them what for" I always understood it to be, what for to think about" of what for was coming to him" meaning something similar to I gave him a piece of my mind and he won't like what he got. When I took a class in linguistics I read that because Appalachia was isolated for so long the speech there did not change as much and that the dialect and accent may be the closest modern dialect to Shekspirin English still spoken. At any rate it ia beautiful and a joy to listen to.
I have heard, give him the what for…and, give him the business. I like both!
I would totally lost in an Appalachian conversation. Spanish, grew up in NYC, later on after marriage in NJ, there's a lot of different people with different nationalities. I always liked the American ways and your music is wonderful. Very lively and fun to dance. I have seen them on UA-cam. Thanks for sharing your culture with us.
So many of these sayings were said in my farming community in Michigan. Though my relatives were Dutch, there were a lot of Scots/Irish in Caledonia.
Thank you for always putting a smile on my face. Growing up being the oldest of 4 we were Blessed to find out my mom was going to have a baby. I was 13 when he was born. We had to be creative to find ways to get him to eat. He wanted to be grown so bad. I was the cook & chief bottle washer. Our baby did not like to eat much at all. We got him to eat by saying, I bet you wont eat that. One summer night I said eating kale would put hair on his chest. After each bite he lifted his shirt and said I feel it growing! Can you see it!?! Thank you for all you share. God Bless you.
Love that-such a sweet story 😀
Listening to you, is makin me cry, because I miss my grandmother.... I miss the old ways....
Aww, so sorry you 're crying. But I know how you feel about missin' the old ways and our dear family members who meant so much to us. I'm so thankful to have grown up in the 50s and 60s and gettin to hear many of these sayings from my parents and grandparents. They were definately the good old days for me. For now, although you posted your message a month ago, I'm sending you a smile and a prayer where ever you are.
@@Luellen.24 Thank you for doing so. I understand you have so many visitors now, that it's hard to keep up.
I hope our folks better days are ahead of us. At least your channel gives us all hope for the future and understanding of the past. Thank you for that, and our grandmothers for what they gave us.
I always said one hair and a freckle past eastern elbow time. From Kentucky
I’m a Texas girl born in Oklahoma. I’ve heard most of the sayings you talked about today. I enjoy your videos. 💕
This is the third time I watched this video. I’m really enjoying going through the older videos!❤️🙏🇨🇦
Thank you Gary!!
My grandma had a couple of sayings that I found so funny when I was a kid. One was when she answered the phone. If the person calling didn’t talk she would say “ talk a$$!, mouth can’t!”. The other was when she got aggravated with someone she would threaten to “rip their damn leg off and beat em to death with it!”. I miss her every day.
I'm very familiar with these and others ...my family from southern Appalachia in north Carolina lived way back up in the head of a hollar where you had to drive 2 miles , some of it through the creek and up the creek itself, secluded, beautiful and peaceful....I still say some of these...thanks tipper ....God bless...🙏
I simply love you, lady!
My wife’s dad was from W. Virginia. That’s where she got the saying “ Her crap don’t stink” , meaning she’s a snob.
Another one is “ He wouldnt hit a lick at a snake “ , in other words, he’s lazy.
My dad ( from sw Virginia ) would say “ He’s got a ax to grind,” meaning someone was holding a grudge and might do something about it. And he would say “ keep it between the ditches” when we were parting company for awhile.
You have just touched the tip of the iceberg when it come Appalenglish! Applanguage? I could start writing down mountain words and phrases as I remember them if you are interested in using them to further this channel.
Papaw-please do!!
Some I've heard shouldn't be told in polite company
So Interesting. I live in the Caribbean, The Dominican republic 🌴 Down Here, My Family from the country side and from the Mountains, They have their own regional accent and ways. Same as it happens in the United States. Thank you for teaching us about the Beautiful Appalachian culture. God Bless you and yours ❤
I am really enjoying your videos. They bring back so many memories of growing up and people I love dearly. A simpler, better life. Too much hustle and bustle now.
My Great Aunt told me that going 40 meant like 40 acres meant you run all day seem like ya'd run 40 acres. I have used most all of these and then some.
So glad to hear people who talk like me and can understand what sim saying.
I grew up in the flatland, and I heard it "go like 60."
My sister had a landlord that complained about a cold, windy day by saying, "there aint nothin' between us and the North Pole but a bobwire fence!"
I've always liked it when someone asks 'how are you doing?' and the other person replies, "I'm hang'n in there like a hair in a biscuit."
I grew up with my granny using the Appalachian language. up the creek without a paddle, haint = ghost. look at that tree its ugly as a haint. look over there he is torn up. thank you for keeping the tradition alive 😊
Lots of those expressions and variations on a theme, older, especially country people in Australia used to say as well. Amazing.
I love this one!!! My Dad said so many of these sayings, it brings back a lot of good memories! I should use some of them more so they don’t get forgotten. It makes everyday life a little more fun!
Yes we all need to use them to make sure they stick around 😀
I just thought of another one. When I was very little, and my mother was helping me take my shirt off, she would say, "skin a rabbit!" I heard that at such an early age that I never really understood until I was much older what that literally meant. I said it once to my young daughter when I was helping her change her clothes. I didn't think about it, it just came to me. And my wife, who doesn't have Appalachian heritage, looked at me sideways. ;)
I live in California, and my family uses a bunch of those sayings; during the war they came out from Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma to work in the shipyards in San Francisco.
This may have been mentioned before but I’m new so I will add it anyway. Poor as Jobs turkey. I still say that. Thank you for your passion for Appalachian. Dr. Phil uses some of these sayings...that dog won’t hunt. Fish or cut bait. I find this so interesting and I am never ashamed to be southern or from The Appalachians.
I was just a very young boy and sitting with an old timer on a bench at the courthouse square one Saturday. He was whittling on a piece of cedar. My mom gave me a Coca Cola and a bag of peanuts to give him. I had my RC cola and a Zagnut candy bar. Well.. he took a sip of coke and poured some nuts in the coke. He took another sip and burped and started chewing on the nuts. He grinned real big and said... “ Now that’s what put the hair on the cat’s poohstinker right there now” !!! 😳 I’m sure I looked pretty puzzled thinking about that one. Wasn’t long after that, some teenage boy walked by, all dressed up. The old timer kinda sneered and said..” There goes that ring tailed tooter “ 😳. Once again I was confused. He was speaking a different language. I asked my uncle about it later. He said something like a ring tailed tooter was a rooster and that young boy must have been strutting around like a rooster trying to get noticed. My favorite was one my mom used to say. We would be in town running errands in our work clothes and we’d see some grown woman all dressed up flirting with some man and she’d say...”Boy she’s really putting on the dog”. I never really thought about it till later in life. Back in the old days when women got all dressed up , the rich women had a fox fur draped around their neck complete with head and tail. People without such a fur, referred to that fox fur as a dog. Wearing it draped over your shoulder or around your neck was “Putting on the dog”. That’s the way I heard it. Lol I loved sitting with the old timers while mom did her shopping. Learned to love peanuts in my drink too. I always drank RC or Double Cola.
Jim in Tennessee
Great story! Am a Coca Cola guy myself but have a sneaking fondness for RC, which I’d drink at my late Louisville father-in-law’s house, albeit without peanuts, although maybe it’s worth a try. Can’t stand Pepsi. Will drink Mr. Pibb at any excuse.
Yep a rc cola n peanuts . As kids we called it peanut sipping . If we stopped at a store n dad ask did we want something we would say give me sum fixins for peanut sipping and he knew rc n peanuts 😂
@@odderotter8950 Here in Kentucky it's Coke Cola and peanuts and RC with Moon pies. Either way it's all good.
Lucy bell Same with my mom's people in Middle Tennessee. And my dad's, in NW Alabama.
(Of course, my uncle worked for Coca-Cola, so when we said, "Hey, want a coke?," at our houses, there was like as not a genuine Coca-Cola product involved 😂😂 ... but RC was known & tolerated 😉 - RC & a Moon Pie for a country lunch alternative to Coke & peanuts, of course, but Mom & Uncle had also both grown up with it as teens post WWII, and Dad had, in his smaller town, too. But certainly by my time, Coke obviously took precedence. There was just one thing we, none of us, ever, _ever_ said - and that was the "P" word. 🤣🤣🤣)
I always heard the term "putting on the dog" but never thought about what it meant. Makes perfect sense,
Forgive my language, but my granny was a card. When we use to get dirty or make a mess. She use to say "you got that everywhere from a$$hole to appetite" She was the only person I ever heard say that. Thanks for your videos😄
My mother-in-law, from Eastern TN used to say (about a person) "She's so spoilt, salt won't save her". I love your shows. The food, stories & your accent take me right back to the old days. Thank you!
Love that saying!!
I just moved to WV from Oklahoma and I LOVE the way people talk! So FAST and funny! 😄 My favorite new words I’ve learned since being here are “holler” (I found out I live in one lol) and “youns.”
I had to laugh the other day. My cousin told me she wouldn't care to pick me up at station in Cookeviille, TN. In Indiana, that is a polite way of saying you don't want to do something, which is the opposite of what she meant. I have heard you mention this in a previous video. I have heard quite a few sayings you mention but some are new to me.
I absolutely loved this! I use or have heard used many of these sayings. A few were new and I am taking note of them. My Grandma used to say, when she was disheveled, "Oh, I look like the warpin' ends of windy weather." I've heard "Well, 'pon my honor!" "Bigger than the broad side of a barn." " "To small to swing a cat." or "You could throw a cat under the doors."
Our Dad would always say, I'm telling you whats the truth. Which meant that he was about to say something he really believed in, love your videos
I'm laughing so hard cause I grew up hearing most of these, and me and my kin still use most of these to this day.
I’ve heard nearly all of these. I’m from north Arkansas and most of the old family’s came from Appalachia.
I’ve heard many of these sayings that you’ve mentioned here and many I’ve never heard.
My gramma used to say: “well whose been killin’ squirrels on your farm?” Would be used if a person was grouchy or cranky.
She was born & raised in the hills of Ca. But her folks came from Scotland. I don’t know if that’s part of their heritage or not.
Two from my dad from south eastern KY: "He squealed like a stuck hog". And "That dog just ain't gonna hunt", meaning that is a poor idea or it just isn't going to work.
Great video! I heard a lot of those sayings from my mom’s side of the family when I was a kid. Instead of saying “going to see a man about a dog”, I’ve heard it as “going to see a man about a horse”, but it meant the same thing.
In my house, "going to see a man about a horse" was a euphemism for going #2. 😂
Something I say a lot and haven't heard folks say in years is "well then there now!" Hadn't heard it in a long time and the other night I was watching in the heat of the night and heard the actor who played in walking tall say it. I live in the Hoosier state but I'm from East Ky
My grandma would say between me you and the fence post. She was born in Hillsboro KY
I just caught this one, while reviewing your channel. I like hearing these phrases and words. I’ve heard a lot this growing up. It’s nice to have them explained. I know, I can research them on my own but you make it so much easier! 😊🇨🇦
I recently had to teach a NC friend what Grammaw said, “you steer clear from them holler hussies!”. 😆
I’ve heard of some of these while growing up. I’m from Missouri but my granny and granddad were from Arkansas
"He lit outta here like his ass was on fire."
A little crude but what a picture.
I also heard it "he lit outta there like his britches were afire".
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My Granny use to say what went over the devils back is bound to come under his belly! 😊
We use many of these sayings in oklahoma.
Robert-neat that you're familiar with them too!
My great granny Ivy dipped snuff, it came in a little red tin can seems like.