Bent Phrases

Phrases

• As crooked as a dog's hind leg
• Bend over backwards to help
• Bend the rules
• Bend to my will
• Bend your ear
• Bend your elbow
• Bent double
• Bent out of shape
• Cleans round the bend (Harpic Lavatory Cleaner advertising slogan)
• Criminal stupidity
• Crooked House (Agatha Christie book)
• Hell bent
• Illegal alien
• Life is better Twisted (Tropicana Twister advertising slogan)
• Round the bend
• The Adventure of the Crooked Man (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Big Bend State (Nickname of the US state of Tennessee)
• The Man with the Twisted Lip (Sherlock Holmes story)
• There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile (line from nursery rhyme)
• War criminal (someone who has flouted the Geneva Convention)