Regardless of the political incorrectness of some of these expressions, they do provide a key to the way people think, and they are just as surely a part of a person's heritage as any family heirloom. This collection is just beginning, so I ask you to feel free to submit any expressions that come to your mind. Please include any information on the source of the saying and the context in which it was spoken. The expressions need not be exclusively southern. I welcome friends from the North to submit.
Contrast is as important as comparison.
The good book says so. Crazy as a peach orchard boar. Then start at your toes and wash up as far as possible. On the day ol' Curtis died, nobody came to pray. Old preacher said some words and they chunked him in the clay.