Meaning: a botched attempt to use Muhammad Ali's famous catchphrase - "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"
You gon' git yerself a butt-whoopin' if you start ta runnin' that mowrth of yers again! I sting like a butterfly, punch like a flea, so you sure as heck don't wanna mess with me.
For whatever reason, a number of country folk can't seem to get the names of the Houston Texans and the Texas A&M Aggies straight. We hear the same mistakes over and over when these two teams are discussed.
The Houston Texans are referred to simply as "Texas".
Meaning: "made it by the skin of our teeth"; country folk frequently say phrases and idioms incorrectly, and this is just another example
We was runnin' through that airport as fast as we could and gawt on that plane just before it was set to take off. We literally made it by the nails of our teeth.
Meaning: DNA
I've worked with Tyler all I can, but I've abourt given up. No matter how hard he tries, that boy caint hit a baseball.It just ain't in his biawlergy.
Meaning: epitome
Derek always goes all out to make sure he's dressed nice. He is the eppytoam of bein' stylish.
Meaning: MLB's Tampa Bay Rays (country folk sometimes confuse their electronics and their baseball teams)
I'd a whole lotch ratha face the Red Sox than the Tampa Bay Blu-Rays in the playoffs.
Meaning: sometime
Waymond is a really nice feller and he got a nice head a hair. You should meet him sometimes.
Meaning: the name assigned to a person who is dressed in both jeans and a denim jacket; it is a phrased used by country folk as "clever" humor to poke fun at someone and believed to be originated from the misheard lyrics of Neil Diamond's "Forever in Blue Jeans"
Ole Johnny's be sportin' denim from head to toe all week. I guess he thinks he's The Reverend Blue Jeans.
Meaning: Marketing 101; basic fundamentals of marketing
Come on, hauss. This is marketin' one on one. If you ain't doin' it, yer missin' owrt on a lotta business.
Meaning: What can I do for you?
When a customer walks in that door, you need to stand up, smile, and say "Welcome to Ricky Don's Auto Parts. What can I do ya for?".
Meaning: making a spectacle of oneself
That Rebecca Black girl thought she was startin' a nice lil' music career, but instead, she just ended up makin' a skeptical of herself.
Meaning: ostracized
Ever since word got out that I don't like rodeo, nobody will tawk to me. I feel like I been ostrichsized by the whole dang town.
Marshall arts are a primitive form of backwoods fighting techniques taught in rural areas where programs teaching more sophisticated and traditional forms of combat (karate, kung fu, judo) are unavailable or limited.
Marshall arts are considered neither an art nor a science. This form of fighting often uses elements of boxing, wrasslin', and Asian martial arts, though those elements are often misunderstood and used improperly. The styles and techniques of marshall arts vary greatly by location, as they are taught by persons with no formal training in any form of fighting.
Marshall arts have been used successfully in bar fights and other unstructured situations against unskilled opponents; however, they are highly ineffective when put into action against opponents trained in traditional fighting techniques.
It is believed that the term "marshall arts" originated years ago when a man named Marshall opened a "dojo" called Marshall Arts to "teach fightin' to youngins"; however, marshall arts may be taught by persons of any name.
Examples:
Hi Plains Marshall Arts
Marshall Arts For Kids
I don't think you should be puttin' yer boy in classes at Terry Don's Dojo - they don't teach nothin' but marshall arts there. You should let him learn korrawdees at The Flying Dragon.
Meaning: podunk; a small, isolated town/place/entity that is regarded as insignificant
I wanted to eat at Cracker Barrell and nibble on some of them biscuits, but Randy and Eunice insisted that we go to this lil' peedunk restaurant just outside town.
Meaning: said when one wants to express that another person has significantly more talent in a particular area than they do; a botched version of the phrase "he/she has more talent in his/her pinky than I have in my whole body"
That feller can play a mean gittar and he can really wail, too. He got more talent than my lil' pinky toe in my body got in it.
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