Chess Phrases

Phrases

• A cat may look at a king
• A move in the right direction
• A white knight
• Above board
• Across the board
• Ahead of the game
• All your base are belong to us (broken English phrase used in the video game Zero Wing)
• America loves burgers, and we're America's Burger King (Burger King advertising slogan)
• America's Oldest Living Teenager (Nickname of game show host Dick Clark)
• An Englishman's home is his castle
• Another One Bites The Dust (Queen song)
• Anyone's game
• Aren't you hungry for Burger King now? (Burger King advertising slogan)
• As game as Ned Kelly
• As the actress said to the bishop
• Baby on board
• Back to the drawing board
• Balmoral Castle (tourist attraction in Scotland)
• Bash the bishop
• Be It Ever So Humble There's No Place Like Home (John Howard Payne and Sir Henry Bishop song)
• Beaten at your own game
• Beauty queen
• Bed and board
• Beef. It's what's for dinner (Cattlemen's Beef Board advertising slogan)
• Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Posey)
• Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Worthy)
• Blame game
• Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen song)
• Bold move
• Brand new ballgame (A baseball expression meaning when a team that has been behind ties up the game)
• Bring your A game (perform to your best ability)
• Burger King - the home of the Whopper (Burger King advertising slogan)
• Burger King. Where kids are king (Burger King advertising slogan)
• Bust a move (dance in a stylish way)
• Call of Duty (video game title)
• Career limiting move
• Cat and mouse game
• Check it out
• Check out
• Check out the plumbing
• Check the plumbing
• Check you on the flip side
• Check your sources
• China plate (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
• Closet queen
• Come home to a real fire (Coal Board advertising slogan)
• Comeback king
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Queen song)
• Deep Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Did the earth move for you
• Didn't they do well! (A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth In The Generation Game)
• Different ball game
• Digging the dancing queen (ABBA lyric)
• Don't Stop Me Now (Queen song)
• Double check
• Drag queen
• Drink more milk (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Drinka pinta milka day (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Edinburgh Castle (tourist attraction in Scotland)
• End of the ball game
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Face card (the jack queeen or king in a set of playing cards)
• Fair game
• Faith will move mountains
• Farmer George (Nickname of King George III)
• Fast food and good for you (Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Fit for a king
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Full of natural goodness (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Game bird
• Game brain
• Game changer
• Game of two halves
• Game on
• Game over
• Game plan
• Game set and match
• Game time
• Game to the last
• Get a move on
• Get it off your chest
• Give the game away
• Go by the board
• Go to work on an egg (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• God save the Queen
• Golden Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting a player who strikes out four times in a game)
• Good Queen Bess (Nickname of Queen Elizabeth I)
• Got game
• Got milk? (California Milk Processor Board advertising slogan)
• Grand Theft Auto (video game title)
• Gravity check
• Groaning board
• Guessing game
• Happiness is egg shaped (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Have it your way (Burger King advertising slogan)
• Holding your cards close to your chest
• Homecoming queen
• I Capture The Castle (Dodie Smith book)
• I Like To Move It (Reel 2 Reel song)
• I'm game
• Idiot board
• In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king
• Is your man getting enough? (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• It takes two hands to hold a Whopper (Burger King advertising slogan)
• It's A Kind Of Magic (Queen song)
• It's in the game (EA Sports advertising slogan)
• It's just a game
• It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game
• It's only a game
• Keep in check
• Killer Queen (Queen song)
• King Dick (Nickname of Richard Cromwell)
• King Eric (Nickname of Eric Cantona)
• King Felix (Nickname of Felix Hernandez)
• King James (Nickname of LeBron James)
• King Kong (Naomi Watts movie)
• King Lear
• King Solomon's Mines
• King of Clutch (Nickname of Reggie Miller)
• King of Spain (Nickname of Ashley Giles - English cricketer)
• King of kings
• King of the castle
• King of the hill
• King of the jungle
• King of the road
• King pin
• King sized
• King's evidence
• King's ransom
• Knight in shining armour
• Knight of the road
• Label queen
• Late in the game
• Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Lift your game
• Live like a king
• Long Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Stop (field position in the game of cricket)
• Make a list; check it twice
• Make a move on
• Make your move
• Mario Kart (video game title)
• Mate's rates (discount price offered to friends)
• Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Milk's gotta lotta bottle (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Milk. It does a body good (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Move It On Over (Hank Williams song)
• Move On Up a Little Higher (Mahalia Jackson song)
• Move heaven and earth
• Move in the best circles
• Move over
• Move right along
• Move with the times
• Mug's game
• Must win game
• My old china (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
• Naruwan, Welcome to Taiwan (Taiwan Tourist Board advertising slogan)
• Numbers game
• Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he (line from nursery rhyme)
• On board
• On the game
• On the move
• Once and future king
• Only A Pawn In Their Game (Bob Dylan song)
• Only game in town
• Platinum Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting striking out five times in a game)
• Play a waiting game
• Play the game
• Play the percentage game
• Primal Rage (film and video game)
• Put your game face on
• Puts hair on your chest
• Queen for a day
• Queen it over
• Raise your game
• Reality check
• Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
• Save The Last Dance For Me (Ben E King song)
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Shell game
• Short Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Skin in the game
• Smooth move
• Sod this for a game of soldiers
• Somebody To Love (Queen song)
• Sonic the Hedgehog (video game title)
• Sounding board
• Spanish Harlem (Ben E King song)
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Suck it up (accept a bad situation and move on)
• Sun King (The Beatles song)
• Super Mario Brothers (video game title)
• Sweep the board
• Take me out to the ball game
• Take something on board
• Take the king's shilling
• Talk a good game
• The African Queen (Humphrey Bogart / Katharine Hepburn movie)
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• The Chairman of The Board (Nickname of Frank Sinatra)
• The Dowager Queen of the Game Shows (Nickname of Pat Carroll)
• The Hammer of The Scots (Nickname of King Edward I)
• The King (Nickname of Elvis Presley)
• The King Of Comedy (Robert De Niro movie)
• The King and Queen Might Eat Thereof and Noblemen Besides (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• The King is dead, long live the King
• The King of Beers (Budweiser Beer advertising slogan)
• The King of Late Night Television (Nickname of Jack Paar)
• The King of Rock 'N' Roll (Nickname of Elvis Presley)
• The King of Swing (Nickname of Benny Goodman)
• The King of the Cowboys (Nickname of Roy Rogers)
• The King of the Mini-series (Nickname of Richard Chamberlain)
• The King of the Wild Frontier (Nickname of explorer Davy Crockett)
• The King's Speech (Colin Firth movie)
• The Lion King (Disney cartoon movie)
• The Little Queen of the Soap Operas (Nickname of actress Anne Francis)
• The Lizard King (Nickname of Jim Morrison)
• The Nine Days Queen (Nickname of Lady Jane Grey)
• The Queen Of Mean (Nickname of Anne Robinson)
• The Queen Of The Adriatic (Nickname of Venice Italy)
• The Queen Of The Coast (Nickname of Mar del Plata Argentina)
• The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts all on a summer's day (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Queen of How-To (Nickname of Martha Stewart)
• The Queen of Nice (Nickname of comedienne Rosie O'Donnell)
• The Queen of TV Comedy (Nickname of comedienne Lucille Ball)
• The Rat Pack (Nickname of entertainers Dean Martin Sammy Davis Jr Peter Lawford Joey Bishop and Frank Sinatra)
• The Sims (video game title)
• The Sun King (Nickname of King Louis XIV)
• The Virgin Queen (Nickname of Queen Elizabeth I)
• The Widow of Windsor (Nickname of Queen Victoria)
• The Wisest Fool In Christendom (Nickname of King James I)
• The beautiful game
• The blame game
• The check is in the mail
• The customer is king
• The game is afoot
• The game is up
• The king was in his counting house counting out his money (line from nursery rhyme)
• The name game
• The name of the game
• The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey (line from nursery rhyme)
• The queen's English
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
• Trap and ball (children's ball game)
• Treasure chest
• Two can play at that game
• Up On The Roof (Carole King song)
• Up your game
• War game (a simulation of war intended as preparation)
• Watch out there's a Humphrey about (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• We Are The Champions (Queen song)
• We Will Rock You (Queen song)
• We do it your way (Burger King advertising slogan)
• We really move our tail for you (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• What's your game?
• White knight
• Who are you? (Nintendo Game Boy Advance advertising slogan)
• Who's got the best darn burgers in the whole wide world? (Burger King and I advertising slogan)
• Whole new ball game
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)
• Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? (Carole King song)
• Windsor Castle (tourist attraction in England)
• You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman (Carole King song)
• You are now free to move about the country (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
• You can rely on the lion (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• You're the boss (Burger King advertising slogan)
• You've Got A Friend (Carole King James Taylor song)
• Zero sum game