"In high cotton” or “high on the hog” means you're living a comfortable lifestyle.
Both sayings mean one thing: life’s treating you well.
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“She's as ugly as homemade sin” is a classic Texan saying that’s all about exaggeration. It doesn’t literally have anything to do with sin—it just means someone is really unattractive.
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Old words never die in the mountains—they just settle deeper into the holler. #Appalachia #AppalachianTalk #Reckon #SouthernSayings #MountainHeritage
Britches: a little piece of Old World language still kicking in the hills. #AppalachianTalk #MountainHeritage #SouthernSayings #Britches #AppalachianHistory
When my grandma was really aggravated she would say “I’m about as happy as a dead pig in the sunshine “
& you definitely knew to stay away from someone when she’d say “well just bless their little ole pea pickin’ heart” lol
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What’s the devil doing? #thesouth #southern #southernsayings
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Every time my mom got a random chill she'd say, "A possum ran over my grave."
I get them so often I think I'm going to be buried underneath a mall 😅
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