• Deconceptualist@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    There are some southern or appalachian insults that I’m sure would confuse foreigners, even those who are functional in English.

    Comparisons like “He’s twelve ounces short of a pint”, backhanded compliments like “I just love how you don’t care what people think”, idioms like “three sheets to the wind”. And then of course there’s “rode hard and put up wet”.

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      6 months ago

      There’s also “bless your heart”. Around here if someone tells you that, it is not a compliment.