Clothes Phrases

Phrases

• 501 blues (Levi's Jeans advertising slogan)
• A brick in your hat
• A feather in your cap
• Adjust your dress
• All fur coat and no knickers
• All hat and no cattle
• All mouth and trousers
• All over him like a cheap suit
• All talk and no trousers
• America lives in Dacron (Dacron Fabric advertising slogan)
• Ants in his pants
• Ants pants
• As black as the Earl of Hell's waistcoat
• As black as your hat
• As full as a fat lady's sock
• Asbestos knickers
• At a price to suit your pocket
• At the drop of a hat
• Bad hat
• Bail jumper
• Beat the pants off
• Below the belt
• Belt and braces
• Belt it out
• Belt up
• Best bib and tucker
• Bit of skirt
• Black tie
• Bless his/her cotton socks
• Bling bling
• Blow my skirt up
• Boob tube
• Bore the pants off someone
• Bra burner
• Brown trousers
• Bunny suit (Canadian military slang term for a cbrn (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear))
• Burn your bra
• By the seat of your pants
• Cap and trade (A policy tool aimed at protecting the environment)
• Cap in hand
• Caught with your pants down
• Caught with your trousers down
• Cement overcoat
• Change into your brown trousers
• Chapel hat pegs
• Chicago overcoat
• Click it or ticket (United States seat belt law advertising slogan)
• Cloak and dagger
• Cloth ears
• Clothes maketh the man
• Coat of many colours
• Cut from the same cloth
• Cut your coat to suit your cloth
• Dance your socks off
• Data cap
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)
• Dicky Dirt (Cockney rhyming slang for shirt)
• Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? (Warner's Body Bra advertising slogan)
• Doff one's cap
• Don't get your knickers in a knot
• Don't get your knickers in a twist
• Done up like a Christmas tree
• Double denim (denim jeans worn with a denim shirt or jacket)
• Draw a veil over
• Dress code
• Dress down
• Dress down Friday
• Dress for success
• Dress up
• Dress up Thursday
• Drop your pants
• Dust your pants
• Eat my shorts (A catchphrase from The Simpsons)
• Fancy pants
• Fashion victim
• Feather in your cap
• Fine feathered
• Fly by the seat of your pants
• Follow suit
• For successful living (Diesel advertising slogan)
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost (line from nursery rhyme)
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
• Frock horror
• Frock up
• Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick movie)
• Gear up for
• Get into gear
• Get into someone's pants
• Get your ass into gear
• Get your coat
• Get your coat, you've pulled
• Glad rags
• Go cap in hand
• Golden Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting a player who strikes out four times in a game)
• Hair shirt
• Handle with kid gloves
• Hang on to your shirt tails
• Hang up your hat
• Hang your hat on
• Hat in hand
• Have you ever had a bad time in Levi's? (Levi's Jeans advertising slogan)
• High visibility jacket (reflective coat worn to be easily seen)
• Home is wherever I lay my hat
• Hustle and bustle
• I dreamed I stopped traffic in my Maidenform bra (Maidenform advertising slogan)
• I dreamed I went shopping in my Maidenform bra (Maidenform advertising slogan)
• I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled (from a poem by Eliot)
• I wear my sunglasses at night
• I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
• I'll eat my hat
• I'll take my hat off to you
• I'm Too Sexy For My Shirt (Right Said Fred song)
• If the cap fits, wear it
• If the shoe fits, wear it
• If you want to get ahead, get a hat (Hat Council advertising slogan)
• In high cotton
• In uniform
• In your birthday suit
• It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
• Jersey Jim (Nickname of Jim McMahon)
• Jersey Joe (Nickname of Joe Walcott)
• Joey Pants (Nickname of actor Joe Pantoliano)
• Keep it under your hat
• Keep your hat on
• Keep your pants on
• Keep your shirt on
• Knock it into a cocked hat
• Knock your socks off
• Legs like tree trunks
• Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Bob Dylan song)
• Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini
• Liar liar: pants on fire
• Lift the veil
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little black dress
• Little gentleman in the velvet coat
• Look your best while you wear our least (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• Lose your shirt
• Man In The Long Black Coat (Bob Dylan song)
• Man of the cloth
• Material Girl (Madonna song)
• My bottoms are tops (Gloria Vanderbilt Jeans advertising slogan)
• My hat!
• No Jacket Required (Phil Collins album)
• Not a stitch on
• Not exactly blowing my skirt up
• Nothing comes between me and my Calvin Klein jeans (Calvin Klein advertising slogan)
• Off the peg
• Old hat
• Old school tie
• One two buckle my shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• Only 1 out of 25 men is color blind. The other 24 just dress that way (Mohara Suits advertising slogan)
• Only the brave deserve the fair and the fair deserve JAEGER (Jaeger Sportswear advertising slogan)
• Open the kimono
• Out of the hat
• Over the shoulder boulder holder (jokey term for bra)
• Pass the hat
• Penguin suit
• Pile of pants
• Platinum Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting striking out five times in a game)
• Pop goes the weasel
• Power is Macintosh (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Pull the rabbit out of the hat
• Pull your socks up
• Put a sock in it
• Put on the wooden overcoat
• Put on your thinking cap
• Put the tin hat on it
• Put your brain in gear
• Put your shirt on
• Quality never goes out of style (Levi's Jeans advertising slogan)
• Quick change artist
• Rag trade
• Rally cap (A baseball expression denoting a cap is a worn inside out or backwards)
• Raspberry Beret (Prince song)
• Red and green should never be seen
• Robin Hood - Men In Tights (Mel Brooks movie)
• Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
• San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) (Scott McKenzie song)
• Set your cap at
• Shift into high gear
• Skirt chaser
• Smarty pants
• Sock it to me (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
• Sock puppet marketing
• Source material
• Stuffed shirt
• Suit up
• Suit you, sir (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Suit yourself
• Sunday best
• Take it up a gear
• Take the shirt off your back
• Take the veil
• Take your hat off to
• Talk through your hat
• The Armpit Of New Jersey (Nickname of Newark New Jersey)
• The Bible Belt
• The Foreigner State (Nickname of the US state of New Jersey)
• The Garden State (Nickname of the US state of New Jersey)
• The Graveyard Of The Atlantic (Nickname of Cape Hatteras North Carolina)
• The Hat (Nickname of Harry Walker)
• The Jersey Lily (Nickname of Lillie Langtry)
• The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales (Oliver Sacks book)
• The Man in the Iron Mask
• The Rag Trade (BBC comedy television series)
• The Sweater Girl (Nickname of Lana Turner)
• The United Colors of Benetton (Benetton advertising slogan)
• The best seat in the house (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• The bull in the bowler hat (jokey term for artificial insemination)
• The cat's pyjamas
• The emperor's new clothes
• The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades (song by Timbuk 3)
• The gloves are off
• The overall scheme of things
• The shoe's on the other foot
• There was an old woman who lived in a shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• Throw your hat into the ring
• Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (Dawn with Tony Orlando song)
• Tie one on
• Tie the knot
• Tie up the loose ends
• Tie yourself in knots
• Tighten your belt
• Tinfoil hat
• Tipped into a cocked hat
• Titfer (Cockney rhyming slang for hat)
• To cap it all
• Togged out
• Top Hat (Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers movie)
• Top gear
• Town and gown
• Training bra
• Training pants
• Triumph has the bra for the way you are (Triumph Lingerie advertising slogan)
• Turn coat
• Tuxedo Junction (Glenn Miller song)
• Under your belt
• Underneath Your Clothes (Shakira song)
• Up and down like a bride's nightie
• Waiting for the other shoe to drop
• Wardrobe malfunction (when an item of clothing slips out of place to expose part of the body - typically a woman's breast)
• Wardrobe mistress (a person in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company)
• Wave the bloody shirt
• Wear the pine overcoat
• Wear the trousers
• Wear your apron high
• Wear your heart on your sleeve
• Wear yourself out
• Weasel and Stoat (Cockney rhyming slang for coat)
• Weave your own sandals
• What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
• What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course (Marilyn Monroe quotation)
• What the well-dressed man is wearing this year (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple (from a poem by Joseph)
• When your shoes shine, so do you (Kiwi Shoe Polish advertising slogan)
• Whistle and flute (Cockney rhyming slang for suit)
• Witches knickers
• Worse for wear
• You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart song)
• Zoot suit