Cannon Phrases

Phrases

• A house divided against itself cannot stand
• A leopard cannot change its spots
• Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety
• Assault with a deadly weapon
• At the end of a gun
• Ban the bomb
• Big bazooka
• Bricks and mortar (Cockney rhyming slang for daughter)
• Cannon fodder
• Chew a gun
• Choose your weapon
• Clicks and mortar
• Crazy Gun Barney (Nickname of Barney Fife (Don Knotts))
• Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Peter Sellers movie)
• Father of The Atomic Bomb (Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer)
• Give it the gun
• Gun down
• Gunpowder treason and plot (line from nursery rhyme)
• Happiness Is A Warm Gun (The Beatles song)
• Have gun, will travel (A catchphrase from TV series)
• He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches (George Bernard Shaw quotation)
• Hold a gun to his head
• Human kind cannot bear very much reality (from a poem by Eliot)
• I cannot be doing with it (I am unwilling to tolerate it)
• I cannot tell a lie
• Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
• Jump the gun
• Leave the gun, take the cannoli (line from The Godfather)
• Letter bomb
• Like a pig from a gun
• Looks like a bomb has hit it
• Loose cannon
• Machine Gun Kelly (Nickname of George Kelly)
• Mother Superior jumped the gun (Beatles song lyric)
• Put a gun to your head
• Refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach (Heineken lager advertising slogan)
• Secret weapon
• See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
• See what we mean (Canon advertising slogan)
• Smoking gun
• Son of a gun
• The Cajun Cannon (Nickname of Bobby Hebert)
• The Cannonball Kid (Nickname of tennis player Roscoe Tanner)
• The Fast Gun From Texas (Nickname of Dan Troop (John Russell))
• The Gun That Won The West (Nickname of the Colt revolver)
• The Man With The Golden Gun (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
• The Polish Cannon (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
• The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read (Mark Twain quotation)
• Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold (from a poem by Yeats)
• Under the gun
• Wabash Cannonball (Roy Acuff song)
• Weather bomb (a rapidly deepening low pressure area causing severe storms)
• You cannot be serious (A catchphrase from John McEnroe)
• You cannot serve God and Mammon
• You cannot step into the same river twice (philosophical comment by Heraclitus)