Get To Know The Real Meaning Behind These Southern Phrases

Published on 12/30/2020
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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

As you can see, southerners like to use animal metaphors more than anyone else. What does “cat on a hot tin roof” even mean? Let us just say that the definition of this is very interesting. A person who is like a cat on a hot tin roof is someone who is behaving in a sketchy and anxious manner. It might help if you think about how a cat on a literal hot tin roof would behave! Do you get it now?

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

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Stompin’ Grounds

We bet that you had no idea what this meant! If that were the case, allow us to fix this error. This basically just means a place that you consider home. You can use this phrase to describe your childhood hometown once you leave for college or a job. Did you come from the south but now live elsewhere? If that is the case, you can always say that the “hood” is your old stomping grounds.

Stompin' Grounds

Stompin’ Grounds

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