Alarm Phrases

Phrases

• ...of the clock
• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
• A little learning is a dangerous thing (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• A sure sign
• Abandon hope all ye who enter here (warning from Dante's Divine Comedy)
• Advance warning
• Alarm bells began to ring
• Alarmed? You should be (Moss Security advertising slogan)
• Armed and dangerous
• Around the clock
• As clear as a bell
• As sound as a bell
• Ask not for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee
• At sixty miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock (Rolls Royce advertising slogan)
• Beat the clock
• Bell the cat
• Bell, book and candle
• Blue murder
• Born Under A Bad Sign (Cream song)
• Born under a bad sign
• Boston Terror (Nickname of boxer Sam Langford)
• Cause for concern
• Clean your clock
• Clear and present danger
• Clock on
• Clock watching
• Cool Papa (Nickname of baseball player James Bell)
• Danger, Will Robinson (A catchphrase from The Robot In Lost In Space)
• Dangerous Liaisons (Glenn Close movie)
• Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
• Ding dong bell Pussy's in the well (line from nursery rhyme)
• Doesn't ring a bell
• Don't panic (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• Don't ring us, we'll ring you
• Every time a bell rings, an angel gets it's wings (line from It's A Wonderful Life)
• Face that could stop a clock
• False alarm
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson book)
• Fear Is The Key (Barry Newman movie)
• Fear is the mind-killer
• Fear the worst
• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
• For Whom The Bell Tolls (Gary Cooper movie)
• Give me a sign
• Give someone a bell
• Going concern
• Green Scare
• Gut wrenching panic
• Had your bell rung
• Hand-held device
• Have your hair stand on end
• Head for the Border (Taco Bell Restaurants advertising slogan)
• Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Hit the panic button
• Hold the ring
• I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright (The Beatles song lyric)
• In the ring
• Intruder alert
• La Poeta de Ring (Nickname of Laura Serrano)
• Labour saving device
• Look a fright
• Mad, bad and dangerous to know
• Mayday mayday
• No fear
• On dangerous ground
• On red alert
• On the alert
• Our entire economy is in danger
• Out of danger
• Panic buying
• Panic room
• Panic selling
• Paralysed with fear
• Phantom ring
• Press the panic button
• Primal Fear (film starring Richard Gere)
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Put the clock back
• Put the fear of God into someone
• Put the fear of death into someone
• Race against the clock
• Radio alarm
• Radio collar
• Ready and waiting (alert and prepared for action)
• Red alert
• Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning
• Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash song)
• Ring aring of roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down (line from nursery rhyme)
• Ring around the collar (Wisk detergent advertising slogan)
• Ring down the curtain
• Ring false
• Ring fencing
• Ring hollow
• Ring in sick
• Ring in your ears
• Ring off
• Ring off the hook
• Ring out the old and ring in the new
• Ring round
• Ring rusty
• Ring the changes
• Ring up
• Rock Around The Clock (Bill Haley song)
• Saved by the bell
• Scare quotes
• Scare the living daylights out of
• Scared silly
• Sign of the times
• Sign off
• Sign on
• Sign on the dotted line
• Sign out
• Sign the pledge
• Sign up
• Signal to noise ratio
• Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (Beyonce song)
• Siren voices
• Sound the alarm
• Stop the clock, I've found a clue
• Stranger danger
• Take fright
• Tell tale sign
• The Colgate ring of confidence (Colgate Toothpaste advertising slogan)
• The Esso sign means happy motoring (Esso advertising slogan)
• The Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash song)
• The Sign of the Four (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The biological clock is ticking
• The clock is ticking
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (Political slogan)
• Think outside the bun (Taco Bell advertising slogan)
• Throw your hat into the ring
• Turn back the clock
• Turn the clock back
• Voice your concern
• Warn off
• Warning bell
• Warning signal
• Watching the clock
• Without fear or favour
• Yo quiero Taco Bell (Taco Bell advertising slogan)