Collar Phrases

Phrases

• A bone to pick
• A chip on his shoulder
• A shoulder to cry on
• Alexander's Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin song)
• An albatross round his neck
• And The Band Played On (Randy Shilts book)
• And the band played on
• As dry as a bone
• Band of brothers
• Beat the band
• Blue collar worker
• Bone dry
• Bone head
• Bone idle
• Bone of contention
• Bone to pick with you
• Bone up on
• Bone weary
• Bone yard
• Break your neck
• Breathing down your neck
• By the scruff of your neck
• Carpe diem (latin expression meaning seize the day)
• Chilled to the bone
• Circle Of Life (Elton John song)
• Circle of friends
• Circle of influence
• Circle the wagons
• Citizen band radio
• Citizen's arrest
• Close to the bone
• Cold shoulder
• Come full circle
• Cut prices to the bone
• Dead from the neck up
• Dicky Dirt (Cockney rhyming slang for shirt)
• Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid song)
• Doesn't have a jealous bone in his body
• Dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang for telephone)
• Double denim (denim jeans worn with a denim shirt or jacket)
• Drum circle (A circle of people playing drums)
• Feel someone's collar
• Garage band
• Gastric band (A device surgically inserted around the stomach intended to reduce appetite)
• Get it in the neck
• Grab a bite to eat
• Grab attention
• Grab life by the horns (Dodge Motors advertising slogan)
• Gregory Peck (Cockney rhyming slang for neck)
• Guards, seize him
• Hair shirt
• Hang by the neck until dead
• Hang on to your shirt tails
• Have a bone to pick
• Hot under the collar
• I arrest you in the name of the law
• I'm Too Sexy For My Shirt (Right Said Fred song)
• It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play (Beatles song lyric)
• Keep your shirt on
• Keep your shoulder to the wheel
• Land grab
• Lipstick on a pig
• Literary circle
• Look over your shoulder
• Lose your shirt
• More tea vicar?
• Neck and crop
• Neck and neck
• Neck beard (hair growth on the neck)
• Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish (Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band song)
• No no no no no no yes (A catchphrase from The Vicar Of Dibley)
• Not going anywhere for a while? Grab a Snickers (Snickers advertising slogan)
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• Over the shoulder boulder holder (jokey term for bra)
• Pain in the neck
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Put your shirt on
• Radio collar
• Resisting arrest
• Ring around the collar (Wisk detergent advertising slogan)
• Rock and boulder (Cockney rhyming slang for shoulder)
• Screen grab
• Seize him
• Seize the day
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles album and song)
• Shoulder responsibility
• Shoulder surf
• Shoulder to shoulder
• Shoulder to the grindstone
• Silver circle
• Skin and bone
• Slip the collar
• Smell the Glove (fictional album by the spoof heavy-metal band Spinal Tap)
• Squaring the circle
• Stick your neck out
• Straight from the shoulder
• Strike Up The Band (George Gershwin composition)
• Strike up the band
• Stuffed shirt
• Take the shirt off your back
• Telling bone
• The Adventure of the Red Circle (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Speckled Band (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Boys in the Band (play by Mart Crowley)
• The Final Countdown (song by the Swedish band Europe)
• The Vicar of Dibley (BBC comedy television series)
• The wheel has come full circle
• This neck of the woods
• To beat the band
• Took the collar (A baseball expression meaning failing to get any hits)
• Up to your neck in trouble
• Vicious circle
• Wave the bloody shirt
• We few, we happy few, we band of brothers (from Henry V by Shakespeare)
• Win by a neck
• Wind your neck in
• Winner's circle
• Work one's fingers to the bone