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• A big shot
• Add fuel to the flames
• Air shot
• All fired up and ready to go
• All guns blazing
• All hot and bothered
• Arouse suspicion
• As black as coal
• As hot as Hades
• As hot as blue blazes
• As useless as a chocolate fireguard
• At the end of a gun
• Ball of fire

• Baptism of fire ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• Bernie, the bolt ( A catchphrase from The Golden Shot )
• Big Shot Becky ( Nickname of basketball player Becky Hammon )
• Big Shot Bob ( Nickname of basketball player Robert Horry )
• Big shot
• Blaze a trail ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• Blaze away at
• Blow hot and cold
• Bonfire Night
• Booster shot
• Breathe fire
• Burn After Reading ( George Clooney movie )
• Burn a hole in your pocket
• Burn in hell
• Burn rubber
• Burn the candle at both ends ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• Burn the midnight oil ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• Burn up the track
• Burn with curiosity
• Burn your boats
• Burn your bra
• Burn your bridges
• Burn your fingers
• Burn yourself out
• Burned at the stake
• Burning Down The House ( Talking Heads song )
• Burning issue
• Burnt to a ashes
• Burnt to a cinder
• Burnt to a crisp
• C'mon Colman's, light my fire ( Colman's Mustard advertising slogan )
• Cat On A Hot Tin Roof ( play by Tennesee Williams and Elizabeth Taylor movie )
• Catch fire
• Chase the dragon
• Cheap shot
• Chew a gun
• Chinese burn
• Chinese fire drill
• Come On Baby Light My Fire ( The Doors song )
• Come home to a real fire ( Coal Board advertising slogan )
• Crash and burn
• Crazy Gun Barney ( Nickname of Barney Fife ( Don Knotts ) )
• Don't burn your bridges behind you
• Don't shoot the messenger
• Don't shoot the piano player
• Don't shoot until you can see the whites of their eyes
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• Dragon Slayer ( Nickname of baseball player Josh Fogg )
• Draw someone's fire
• Drop It Like It's Hot ( Snoop Dogg song )
• Drop it like a hot potato
• Energy to burn
• Feel the burn
• Ferret face ( Nickname of Major Frank Burns ( Larry Linville ) )
• Fiddling while Rome burns
• Fight fire with fire
• Fire And Rain ( James Taylor song )
• Fire Sale
• Fire and brimstone
• Fire away
• Fire down below
• Fire engine red
• Fire in the hole
• Fire in your belly
• Fire storm
• Fire the imagination ( inspire with enthusiasm )
• Fire up the Quattro ( A catchphrase from Gene Glenister In Ashes To Ashes )
• Fired up
• Firing blanks
• Firing on all cylinders
• Flash in the pan
• Friendly fire
• Full of bull ( talking hot air )
• Get into hot water
• Get on like a house on fire
• Get shot of
• Get the sack
• Give it the gun
• Give it your best shot
• Glow Little Glow-worm ( children's nursery rhyme )
• Glow with health
• Go out in a blaze of glory
• Go through fire and water for
• Grate on the ear
• Great Balls Of Fire ( Jerry Lee Lewis song )
• Gun down
• Hang fire
• Happiness Is A Warm Gun ( The Beatles song )
• Harp puts out the fire ( Harp Lager advertising slogan )
• Have a glow on
• Have a shot at
• Have gun, will travel ( A catchphrase from TV series )
• Have many irons in the fire
• He shot through like a Bondi tram
• He smokes like a chimney
• Heap coals of fire on someone's head
• Hellfire and brimstone
• Hire and fire
• His Latest Flame ( Elvis Presley song )
• Hit the sack
• Hold a gun to his head
• Horses sweat, men perspire, women merely glow
• Hot Lips Houlihan ( Nickname of Major Margaret Houlihan ( Loretta Swit ) )
• Hot Plate ( Nickname of basketball player John Sam Williams )
• Hot Rod ( Nickname of basketball player Rodney Hundley )
• Hot air
• Hot and bothered
• Hot and heavy
• Hot button issue
• Hot chocolate, drinking chocolate - the late, late drink ( Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate advertising slogan )
• Hot desking
• Hot diggety dog
• Hot enough for you?
• Hot mess
• Hot money
• Hot n Cold ( Katy Perry song )
• Hot off the press
• Hot on the trail
• Hot on your heels
• Hot potato
• Hot property
• Hot pursuit
• Hot shot
• Hot stuff
• Hot swap
• Hot tempered
• Hot ticket
• Hot tip
• Hot to trot
• Hot topic
• Hot under the collar
• I Shot The Sheriff ( Eric Clapton song )
• I can see you standing over a hot stove, but I can't see the stove ( Groucho Marx line )
• I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? ( Beatles song lyric )
• If I tell you I will have to shoot you
• In hot water
• In the line of fire
• Indoor fireworks
• Is it hot in here or is it me? ( Typically used by menopausal women having a hot flush )
• Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
• It Ain't Half Hot Mum ( BBC comedy television series )
• It burns me up
• Jump the gun
• Just shoot me
• Keep the home fires burning
• Le Sack ( Nickname of Richard Tardits )
• Leave the gun, take the cannoli ( line from The Godfather )
• Liar liar: pants on fire
• Light My Fire ( The Doors song )
• Light a fire under him
• Light a fire under some
• Like a cat on a hot coals
• Like a cat on a hot tin roof
• Like a moth to a flame
• Like a pig from a gun
• Like a shot
• Like blazes
• Lipton's gets into more hot water than anything ( Lipton Tea advertising slogan )
• Little Sure Shot ( Nickname of Annie Oakley )
• Long shot
• Machine Gun Kelly ( Nickname of George Kelly )
• Mail shot
• Money to burn
• Mother Superior jumped the gun ( Beatles song lyric )
• Mr. Big Shot ( Nickname of Chauncey Billups )
• Never fired in anger
• No manager ever got fired for buying IBM ( IBM advertising slogan )
• Not by a long shot
• Only you can prevent forest fires ( United States Forest Service advertising slogan )
• Open fire
• Out of the frying pan into the fire
• Parting shot
• Perfect shot
• Piping hot
• Piss like a fire engine
• Play with fire
• Pull the trigger
• Pull your chestnuts out of the fire
• Put a gun to your head
• Put out
• Redd Hot ( Nickname of Michael Redd )
• Ring Of Fire ( Johnny Cash song )
• Rip mix burn ( Apple Computer advertising slogan )
• Robo Sack ( Nickname of Rob Johnson )
• Run toward the sound of gunfire
• Sack race
• Sack time
• Sad sack
• Say goodnight Gracie ( A catchphrase from George Burns )
• Second degree burns
• See how they run like pigs from a gun ( The Beatles song lyric )
• Selling like hot cakes
• Set Fire to the Rain ( Adele song )
• Set the Thames on fire
• Set the world on fire
• Set your hair on fire
• Shit hot
• Shoot 'em up
• Shoot a birdie ( score one under par in a golf shot )
• Shoot a fairy
• Shoot blanks
• Shoot down in flames ( destroy an argument or theory )
• Shoot first, ask questions later
• Shoot from the hip
• Shoot him down in flames
• Shoot hoops
• Shoot it out
• Shoot me now
• Shoot on sight
• Shoot someone a line
• Shoot straight ( to talk or deal honestly )
• Shoot the breeze
• Shoot the moon ( remove household goods by night to avoid paying rent )
• Shoot the puppy
• Shoot through ( to leave or abscond )
• Shoot to kill
• Shoot your cuffs
• Shoot your mouth off
• Shoot yourself in the foot
• Shot across the bows
• Shot in the arm ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• Shot in the dark
• Shot to hell
• Shot while trying to escape
• Silver Blaze ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• Slash and burn
• Slay the dragon
• Slow burn
• Smoke around the campfire
• Smoke like a chimney
• Smoking gun
• Smoking hot
• Some Like It Hot ( Jack Lemmon / Tony Curtis / Marilyn Monroe movie )
• Son of a gun
• Sow Dragon's teeth
• Spread like wildfire
• Stop, or my mom will shoot ( line from Sylvestor Stallone movie )
• Strike while the iron is hot
• Take a pot shot at
• The Bard of Ayrshire ( Nickname of Robert Burns )
• The Bronze Goddess of Fire ( Nickname of LaWanda Page )
• The Fast Gun From Texas ( Nickname of Dan Troop ( John Russell ) )
• The Gun That Won The West ( Nickname of the Colt revolver )
• The Hoosier Hot Shot ( Nickname of humourist Herb Shriner )
• The Hot Water State ( Nickname of the US state of Arkansas )
• The Italian Dragon ( Nickname of Joe Calzaghe )
• The Last of The Red Hot Mommas ( Nickname of Sophie Tucker )
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ( James Stewart / John Wayne movie )
• The Man With The Golden Gun ( James Bond movie Roger Moore )
• The Ring Of Fire ( Johnny Cash song )
• The cereal that's shot from guns! ( Quaker Puffed Wheat advertising slogan )
• The dogs kids love to bite ( Armour Hot Dogs advertising slogan )
• The fat is in the fire
• The long, hot summer
• The money shot
• The shot heard around the world
• There's no smoke without fire
• There's too much arson about here
• They Shoot Horses Don't They? ( Jane Fonda movie )
• This Wheel's On Fire ( Bob Dylan song )
• Throw Another Log On The Fire ( Outlaws song )
• Too hot to handle
• Too many irons in the fire
• Turkey shoot
• Two irons in the fire
• Under fire
• Under the gun
• Up in smoke
• Visiting fireman
• We answer to a higher authority ( Hebrew National hot dogs advertising slogan )
• Well, nobody's perfect ( line from the movie Some Like It Hot )
• When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash
• Where there's smoke there's fire
• Where's the fire?
• You couldn't catch a monkey with a shotgun and a sack
• You'll get shot
• You're fired! ( A catchphrase from The Apprentice )