Pretty As A Peach
While some people might never think of using fruit to describe an attractive woman, “pretty as a peach” is one of the most common compliments that a beautiful girl or woman would receive in the South. We can only assume that peaches are highly valued fruit in this part of the world, or it could refer to the rouge that many women put on their faces as makeup, which has similar coloring to peaches. From proms to dates, this is a catch-all phrase for expressing one’s appreciation for beauty.
Pretty As A Peach
Hissy Fit
Most people are familiar with the term “hissy fit”, which describes a proper and explosive tantrum. Southerners are infamous for their passionate tempers, but all children are often difficult to wrangle, even at the best of times. You might think that hissy fit refers to a hissing cat, but it is actually taken from the word “hysterics”, which means a wild state of emotional upset. So, most people that become hysterical in the South will be described as having “thrown a hissy fit”.
Hissy Fit
