Carp Phrases

Phrases

• A Fish Called Wanda (John Cleese movie)
• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
• All is fish that comes to the net
• Big fish eat little fish
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Bigger fish to fry
• Cold fish
• Cry stinking fish
• Different kettle of fish
• Don't knock it until you've tried it
• Drink like a fish
• Fish always rot from the head downwards
• Fish and finger pie (Beatles song lyric)
• Fish and guests smell after three days
• Fish it out
• Fish or cut bait
• Fish out
• Fish out of water
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
• Got bigger fish to fry
• If your friendly neighborhood grocer doesn't have a jar knock something off a shelf on the way out (Dilly Beans advertising slogan)
• Knock 'em dead
• Knock Three Times (Tony Orlando and Dawn song)
• Knock about
• Knock about comedy
• Knock back
• Knock back a few
• Knock down drag out
• Knock flat
• Knock for knock
• Knock for six
• Knock heads together
• Knock into shape
• Knock into the middle of next week
• Knock it into a cocked hat
• Knock it off
• Knock it on the head
• Knock it out of the park (A baseball expression denoting a complete or spectacular success)
• Knock knock, who's there
• Knock off
• Knock on the door
• Knock on wood
• Knock sideways
• Knock something together
• Knock spots off
• Knock the cover off the ball (A baseball expression meaning succeed beyond expectation)
• Knock the stuffing out of
• Knock the wind out of
• Knock them in the aisles
• Knock up against
• Knock your heads together
• Knock your socks off
• Knock yourself out
• Like a fish out of water
• Like shooting fish in a barrel
• Little fish in a big pond (someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers)
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Odd fish
• Pretty kettle of fish
• Queer fish
• School of fish
• So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• Three, four, knock at the door (line from nursery rhyme)
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• Wet fish
• What does that have to do with the price of fish?