Category · 74 phrases
A list of phrases about sports and games
- A game of two halves
- A Mexican wave
- A sticky wicket
- Back to square one
- Ballpark figure
- Barmy Army
- Behind the eight ball
- Blind-man's buff
- Booby prize
- Bowl a maiden over
- Bring it on
- Butterfingers
- Card-sharp
- Cat's Cradle
- Catch air
- Chinese whispers
- Come up trumps
- Different strokes for different folks
- Double cross
- Drag race
- Face card
- Fair play
- For keeps
- Full tilt
- Go get ‘em
- GOLF - Gentlemen only, ladies forbidden
- Grand slam
- Helter-skelter
- Hit for six
- I spy with my little eye
- Ivy League
- Keepy-uppy
- Level playing field
- Life's not all beer and skittles
- Like kissing your sister
- Local derby
- Middle for diddle
- Moving the goalposts
- No dice
- No holds barred
- Not by a long chalk
- Not playing with a full deck
- Off his own bat
- Olly olly oxen free
- On song
- On the ball
- On the button
- Out of left field
- Play ducks and drakes
- Play fast and loose
- Point to point
- Punch above one's weight
- Route one
- Rubber match
- Run rings around
- Saved by the bell
- Start from scratch
- Step up to the plate
- Take a beating
- The rub of the green
- Three for three
- Throw in the towel
- Throw your hat into the ring
- To bandy words
- Toe the line
- Under the cosh
- Under wraps
- Washed up
- What football is all about
- When the going gets tough, the tough get going
- Win hands down
- Win one for the Gipper
- Work out
- You're a card