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    23 Phrases That'll Confuse Anyone Who Didn't Grow Up In The South

    The South basically has its own language.

    1. "From can see to can't."

    2. "That makes about as much sense as tits on a bull."

    3. "That dog won't hunt."

    4. "Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rockin’ chairs.”

    5. "Knee-high to a grasshopper."

    6. "Cute as a bug's ear."

    7. "I’ll jerk a knot in your tail."

    8. "Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit."

    9. "Rode hard and put up wet."

    10. "Tan your hide."

    11. "Looks like he/she fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down."

    12. "Hold your horses."

    13. "Run 'round like a chicken with its head cut off."

    14. "If you lie down with dogs, you’ll get up with fleas."

    15. "Fine as a frog's hair split four ways."

    16. “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.”

    17. "Preaching to the choir."

    18. "He doesn't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of."

    19. "He/she gettin' too big for his britches."

    20. "Snatch the taste right out of his/her mouth."

    21. "He/She can bite an apple through a picket fence." / “He/She could eat corn through a picket fence.”

    22. "All get out"

    23. "Bless your heart."