Constable Phrases

Phrases

• A Fish Called Wanda (John Cleese movie)
• A Perfect Spy (John Le Carre book)
• As Irish as Paddy's pig
• As fat as a pig
• As happy as a pig in muck
• Be It Ever So Humble There's No Place Like Home (John Howard Payne and Sir Henry Bishop song)
• Beautiful Boy (John Lennon song)
• Bennie And The Jets (Elton John song)
• Beyond the call of duty
• Big Bad John (Nickname of boxer John McDermott)
• Bleeding like a stuck pig
• Blue Eyes (Elton John song)
• Blue Moon (Nickname of baseball player John Odom)
• Busy old fool, unruly sun (from a poem by John Donne)
• Call of Duty (video game title)
• Can You Feel The Love Tonight? (Elton John song)
• Candle In The Wind (Elton John song)
• Canteen culture (boorish behaviour by rank and file police or soldiers)
• Circle Of Life (Elton John song)
• Cold Turkey (John Lennon song)
• Crocodile Rock (Elton John song)
• Dear John
• Dief the Chief (Nickname of John Diefenbaker)
• Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Elton John song)
• Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me (Elton John song)
• Don't Stand So Close To Me (Police song)
• Donovan's Reef (John Wayne movie)
• Double duty
• Duty bound
• Eat like a pig
• Every Breath You Take (The Police song)
• Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (Police song)
• Gentleman Johnny (Nickname of John Burgoyne)
• Get down Shep (A catchphrase from John Noakes On Blue Peter)
• Give Peace A Chance (John Lennon song)
• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John song)
• Goodnight John Boy (A catchphrase from The Waltons)
• Heavy duty
• Helping the police with their enquiries
• Hot Plate (Nickname of basketball player John Sam Williams)
• Houston, we have a problem (John Swigert Jr. quotation)
• I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues (Elton John song)
• I'm Still Standing (Elton John song)
• In a pig's eye
• In the line of duty
• Instant Karma (John Lennon song)
• Iron Man (Nickname of John Terry)
• Jealous Guy (John Lennon song)
• Jigsaw John (Nickname of John St. John (Jack Warden))
• John Citizen
• John Doe
• John Hancock
• John Thomas
• Johnny Pizza (Nickname of actor John Santucci)
• Known to the police
• Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans (John Lennon quotation)
• Like a pig from a gun
• Like a pig in muck
• Lipstick on a pig
• Make a pig of yourself
• Male chauvinist pig
• Message in A Bottle (Police song)
• Mr. Ed (Nickname of John Elway)
• Never knowingly undersold (John Lewis Stores advertising slogan)
• No nonsense (John Smith's advertising slogan)
• North To Alaska (John Wayne movie)
• Nothing runs like a Deere (John Deere Tractors advertising slogan)
• Off duty
• Pig ignorant
• Pig in a poke
• Pig in the python
• Pig out
• Pig sty
• Pig's ear (Cockney rhyming slang for beer)
• Playboy of the Western World (play by John Millington Synge)
• Player's please (John Player & Sons advertising slogan)
• Point duty
• Police state
• Public Enemy Number One (Nickname of John Dillinger)
• Red River (John Wayne / Howard Hawks movie)
• Redd Foxx (Pseudonym of comedian John Elroy Sanford)
• Reporting for duty
• Rio Grande (John Wayne movie)
• Rocket Man (Elton John song)
• Sands Of Iwo Jima (John Wayne movie)
• Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting (Elton John song)
• Sloop John B (Beach Boys song)
• Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (Elton John song)
• Starting Over (John Lennon song)
• Suckling pig (an unweaned piglet)
• Sweat like a pig
• The Acid-bath Killer (Nickname of John Haigh)
• The Ballad Of John And Yoko (Beatles song)
• The Biscuit (Nickname of John Cage (Peter MacNicol))
• The Bitch Is Back (Elton John song)
• The Boston Strong Boy (Nickname of John L. Sullivan)
• The Bully Boys (Nickname of Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and John Belushi)
• The Clown Killer (Nickname of John Gacy)
• The Drywall Master of the Universe (Nickname of Dan Conner (John Goodman))
• The Duke (Pseudonym of Marion Michael Morrison a.k.a.John Wayne)
• The Elephant Man (John Hurt / Anthony Hopkins / David Lynch movie)
• The Fast Gun From Texas (Nickname of Dan Troop (John Russell))
• The Grapes Of Wrath (John Steinbeck novel and Henry Fonda movie)
• The Green Berets (John Wayne movie)
• The Guinea Pig State (Nickname of the US state of Arkansas)
• The Lone Ranger (Pseudonym of John Reid (Clayton Moore))
• The Longest Day (John Wayne movie)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (James Stewart / John Wayne movie)
• The Manchurian Candidate (Frank Sinatra / John Frankenheimer movie)
• The Quiet Man (Nickname of John Ruiz)
• The Searchers (John Wayne movie)
• The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (John Le Carre novel)
• Thought police
• To market, to market, to buy a fat pig
• Tom Tom the pipers son stole a pig and away he ran (line from nursery rhyme)
• Tour of duty
• True Grit (John Wayne movie)
• Two Jags (Nickname of John Prescott)
• Walking On The Moon (The Police song)
• Whatever Gets You Through The Night (John Lennon song)
• With You Every Step Of The Way (John Waite song)
• Working Class Hero (John Lennon song)
• You Can't Con An Honest John (Mike Skinner - The Streets song)
• You cannot be serious (A catchphrase from John McEnroe)
• You're the One That I Want (John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John song)
• Your Song (Elton John song)
• Yum Yum, pig's bum