Abuse Phrases

Phrases

• A better bus service all round (Carousel Buses advertising slogan)
• Add insult to injury
• All round
• All year round
• An albatross round his neck
• Assault with a deadly weapon
• Attack is the best form of defence
• Attack of the Clones (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• Back the wrong horse
• Bad mouthing
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Batter up
• Blast from the past
• Blast off
• Born on the wrong side of the blanket
• Born on the wrong side of the tracks
• Box ticking exercise
• Bully pulpit
• Cat call
• Cleans round the bend (Harpic Lavatory Cleaner advertising slogan)
• Cleanup hitter (A baseball expression meaning a batter who comes in to solve a problem)
• Come round
• Damage limitation exercise
• Denial of service attack
• Do you kiss your mother with that mouth
• Drop dead
• Enhanced interrogation techniques (euphemism for torture)
• Exchange insults
• Exercise one's discretion
• First footing (making a round of visits at New Year)
• First, do no harm
• Forget you!
• From the wrong side of the tracks
• Full blast
• Gather 'round the good stuff (Pizza Hut advertising slogan)
• Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
• Get knotted
• Get lost
• Get off on the wrong foot
• Get out of the wrong side of the bed
• Get round the table
• Give him an inch and he'll take a mile
• Give someone a rocket
• Give someone an earful
• Go and jump in a lake
• Go boil your head
• Go down the wrong way
• Go round in circles
• Go to Hell
• Go to blazes
• Go to hell in a handbasket
• Go to the Devil
• Go wrong
• Grievous bodily harm
• Gutter snipe
• Hard work never did anyone any harm
• Have a blast
• Heap abuse on
• Heart attack on a plate
• Heart attack waiting to happen
• Hello, I'm Julian and this is my friend Sandy (A catchphrase from Round the Horne)
• How wrong can you be?
• I'm Julian and this is my friend Sandy (A catchphrase from Julian And Sandy in Round The Horne)
• If anything can go wrong, it will
• If this is wrong I don't want to be right
• In harm's way
• In the wrong
• It was the night before Christmas and all round the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
• It went down the wrong way
• It's all gone Pete Tong (Cockney rhyming slang for gone wrong)
• Jump to the wrong conclusion
• Keep out of harm's way
• Laugh on the wrong side of your face
• Line of attack
• Love makes the world go round
• Money makes the world go round
• My country right or wrong
• No harm done
• No harm, no foul
• Not that there's anything wrong with that (A catchphrase from Seinfeld)
• On the wrong foot
• On the wrong side of the tracks
• Put a foot wrong
• Rally round
• Rally round the flag
• Revenge porn (the malicious posting of sexual images online to harm the reputation of an ex partner)
• Right Round (Flo Rida song)
• Ring round
• Round Ireland With A Fridge (Tony Hawks book)
• Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk tune)
• Round Robin
• Round and round the garden like a teddy bear (line from nursery rhyme)
• Round down
• Round table talks
• Round the bend
• Round the houses
• Round the table
• Round the twist
• Round trip trading
• Round up
• Round up the usual suspects (Casablanca)
• Rub up the wrong way
• Serious as a heart attack
• Shout at the top of one's lungs
• Shout it from the rooftops
• Shout the odds
• Slag off
• Snack attack
• So round, so firm, so fully packed (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Son of a whore (a bastard, or a general term of abuse)
• Square peg in a round hole
• Switch hitter (A baseball expression denoting a batter who can hit left or right handed)
• Take liberties with
• The Round Mound of Rebound (Nickname of Charles Barkley)
• The right place at the wrong time
• The wheels on the bus go round and round (title of children's song)
• Throw a beanball (A baseball expression meaning to attack an opponent by aiming at their head)
• Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (Dawn with Tony Orlando song)
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• Twist And Shout (Beatles song)
• What a maroon (Bugs Bunny insult)
• What's wrong with this picture?
• Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away (Robert Maynard Hutchins quotation)
• Why don't you come up sometime and see me? (She Done Him Wrong)
• Wrong Way Corrigan (Nickname of Douglas Corrigan)
• Wrong side of the blanket
• Wrong side of the tracks
• Wrong, with a capital R