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Thread #56733 Message #897708
Posted By: wilco
24-Feb-03 - 05:51 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: favorite southern US expression
Subject: RE: Folklore: favorite southern US expression
"Rode hard and put up wet." This means you are wore-out. It;s a refernece to a horse being ridden hard in bad weather, and then put in the stable without being dired-off, fed, cooled-off, etc.
"Piss poor" and "sorry" are incremental descriptions lf lousy, usually in refernce to someone's personality.
"Your barn door's open." means your pants are unzipped. Sometimes, it is said, "Your barn door is open, and your cow's comin' out." This needs no real explanation.
"pretty as a new penny"
"cool as a cucumber"
"deader'n a doornail"
"wild as a March hare"
"Ain't done it!!!" Statement of disbelief.