Clutch Phrases

Phrases

• A drowning man will clutch at a straw
• A good egg
• A la car
• Baby Braves (Nickname of a group of Atlanta Braves)
• Baby you can drive my car (Beatles song lyric)
• Baby, you can park my car
• Bad egg
• Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow
• Business is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
• Butter and egg man
• Can't hold a candle to
• Car surfing
• Clutch at straws
• Clutch hitter
• Columbus egg
• Cop hold of that
• Curate's egg
• Don't hold your breath
• Drive My Car (The Beatles song)
• Egg and spoon race
• Egg on
• Egg on your face
• Engineering tomorrow's world (BICC Group advertising slogan)
• Faith group
• Fast food and good for you (Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• First among equals (the most senior person in a group of equal rank)
• Friday afternoon car
• Gear up for
• Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
• Get into gear
• Get your ass into gear
• Go suck an egg
• Go to work on an egg (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Good egg
• Grab a bite to eat
• Grab attention
• Grab life by the horns (Dodge Motors advertising slogan)
• Grasp the nettle
• Group dynamics
• Group hug (a hug shared as an expression of friendship or solidarity)
• Group of death (the most difficult or competitive group in a sports tournament)
• Group sex
• Handbrake turn (180 degree turn in a car by locking the back wheels)
• Happiness is a quick-starting car (Esso advertising slogan)
• Happiness is egg shaped (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Hold a candle
• Hold a grudge
• Hold a gun to his head
• Hold a mirror up to nature
• Hold a mirror up to society
• Hold a torch
• Hold all the aces
• Hold all the cards
• Hold at bay
• Hold back on
• Hold court
• Hold down a job
• Hold everything
• Hold fast
• Hold forth
• Hold hands
• Hold hard
• Hold it
• Hold it right there
• Hold it up to the light, not a stain and shining light (Surf Washing Powder advertising slogan)
• Hold on
• Hold on a minute
• Hold on by your fingertips

• Hold on for dear life
• Hold on to your seat
• Hold out for
• Hold responsible
• Hold that thought
• Hold the field (- remain the most important)
• Hold the floor
• Hold the fort
• Hold the front page
• Hold the line
• Hold the phone
• Hold the purse strings
• Hold the ring
• Hold up
• Hold up your head
• Hold very tight please
• Hold water
• Hold with the hare and run with the hounds
• Hold your breath
• Hold your drink
• Hold your head up high
• Hold your horses
• Hold your nose
• Hold your own
• Hold your peace
• Hold your tongue
• I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles song)
• If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?
• If your grandmother had wheels, she'd be a trolley car
• It takes two hands to hold a Whopper (Burger King advertising slogan)
• Jam jar (Cockney rhyming slang for car)
• Just 15 minutes can save you 15 percent or more on car insurance (GEICO advertising slogan)
• Kill the goose that lays the golden egg
• King of Clutch (Nickname of Reggie Miller)
• Land grab
• Last one there is a rotten egg
• Lay an egg
• Let Hertz put you in the driver's seat (Hertz Car Rental advertising slogan)
• Mr. Clutch (Nickname of Drew Pearson)
• Mr. Clutch (Nickname of Jerry West)
• Murderers' Row (A baseball expression denoting a group of talented individuals or valuable assets)
• Nest egg
• Not going anywhere for a while? Grab a Snickers (Snickers advertising slogan)
• People carrier (a car with several passenger seats)
• People mover (a car with several passenger seats)
• Please hold the line
• Put the pedal to the metal
• Put your brain in gear
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Ride the clutch
• Screen grab
• Serving All our Community (Brampton's Arts Group advertising slogan)
• Shift into high gear
• Soft pedal
• Take it up a gear
• The car in front is a Toyota (Toyota Cars advertising slogan)
• Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold (from a poem by Yeats)
• To have and to hold
• Top gear
• Was there a lion on your egg this morning? (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• We pick you up (Enterprise Car Rental advertising slogan)
• We try harder (Avis car rental advertising slogan)
• Which came first the chicken or the egg?
• Win faster (One Brand Group advertising slogan)
• Would you buy a used car from this man?
• You Really Got A Hold On Me (The Beatles and Smokey Robinson song)
• You can rely on the lion (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• You can trust your car to the man who wears the star (Texaco Fuel advertising slogan)
• Your next car (Chrysler advertising slogan)