Find Out What Southern Phrases Mean Through This Fun And Entertaining Guide

Published on 01/06/2021
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Bless Your Heart

“The fact is that “Bless your heart” has several interpretations. It depends on the use. This may be a passive-aggressive way to suggest that someone is incorrect, for one thing. If it’s not that, it might be a way to express compassion as well! You may even, on the other side, use it as little more than an exclamation. To find out what they mean by it, you should be on the lookout for the sound and execution. Today, Reese Witherspoon spoke about it and said, “How we feel about everyone… It’s what we say about everyone we know, literally. And we mean it. We do.”

Bless Your Heart

Bless Your Heart

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Heavens To Betsy

It’s a nice little word, but nobody knows how it worked out to be. An expression used to express surprise at something that has just happened is “Heavens to Betsy.” It has anything to do with Betsy Ross, a lot of people believe, but this remains unverified. In the fifth volume of an American journal named Ballou’s Dollar Monthly Magazine, the first reported use was. This was posted back in January 1857, all the way back. There are even individuals who claim it was instead a euphemism for “Hell’s bells.”

Heavens To Betsy

Heavens To Betsy

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