Cloth Phrases

Phrases

• A red rag to a bull
• Air your dirty linen in public
• All part of life's rich tapestry
• America lives in Dacron (Dacron Fabric advertising slogan)
• America's freedom fabric (Dacron advertising slogan)
• As dry as a pommy's bath towel
• As smooth as silk
• As white as a sheet
• Best bib and tucker
• Beyond the blanket
• Black velvet
• Blank canvas
• Blanket of snow
• Blue Suede Shoes (Elvis Presley song)
• Blue Velvet (David Lynch movie)
• Body painting (a form of painting that uses the human body as a canvas)
• Born on the wrong side of the blanket
• Cheat sheet
• Clean sheet
• Cloth ears
• Clothes maketh the man
• Corduory road (a road that is ridged and furrowed like the fabric)
• Coughs and sneezes spread diseases
• Cut from the same cloth
• Cut your coat to suit your cloth
• Dancing pleats that won't sit out (Orlon Fabric advertising slogan)
• Deep Throat (Nickname of Mark Felt)
• Dirty linen
• Double denim (denim jeans worn with a denim shirt or jacket)
• Everybody out (A catchphrase from The Rag Trade)
• Feel the Velvet (Black Velvet Whiskey advertising slogan)
• Guards! Guards! (Terry Pratchett book)
• If that don't take the rag off the bush
• In full sail
• Iron Man (Nickname of John Terry)
• Iron fist in velvet glove
• Keep a clean sheet
• Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini
• Like a rag doll
• Little gentleman in the velvet coat
• Live life in Comfort (Comfort fabric softener advertising slogan)
• Lose your rag
• Make sail
• Man of the cloth
• Material Girl (Madonna song)
• Middle-aged spread
• National Velvet (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• On the blanket
• Put on a spread
• Rag trade
• Rag, tag and bobtail
• Sackcloth and ashes
• Sail away
• Sail close to the wind
• Sail into
• Seasons in the Sun (Terry Jacks song)
• See the face you love light up with Terry's All Gold (Terrys Chocolates advertising slogan)
• Set sail
• Side boob (the side of a female breast revealed by skimpy clothing)
• Singing from the same hymn sheet
• Softness is a thing called Comfort (Comfort fabric conditioner advertising slogan)
• Source material
• Spread a rumour
• Spread eagled
• Spread like wildfire
• Spread the word
• Spread your wings
• Spread yourself thin
• Talk tweed
• Thai - smooth as silk (Thai Airways International advertising slogan)
• The Blonde Bomber (Nickname of Terry Bradshaw)
• The Jet (Nickname of Jason Terry and Kenny Smith)
• The Rag Trade (BBC comedy television series)
• The Velvet Fog (Nickname of singer Mel Torme)
• The emperor's new clothes
• There are no pockets in a shroud
• Throw the towel in
• Towel head (derogatory slang term referring to an Arab man)
• Underneath Your Clothes (Shakira song)
• Wardrobe malfunction (when an item of clothing slips out of place to expose part of the body - typically a woman's breast)
• Wash your dirty linen in public
• Weave your own sandals
• Wet blanket
• What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
• Wolf in sheep's clothing
• Wrong side of the blanket
• You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear