Crisis Phrases

Phrases

• A problem shared is a problem halved
• A recipe for disaster
• A two pipe problem
• Calamity Jane (Nickname of Martha Cannary Burke)
• Captain Crunch (Nickname of basketball player Jalen Rose)
• Cleanup hitter (A baseball expression meaning a batter who comes in to solve a problem)
• Courting disaster
• Credit crunch
• Crisis management
• Crisis, what crisis? (Jim Callaghan quotation)
• Crunch all you want, we'll make more (Doritos advertising slogan)
• Crunch time
• Dance around the problem
• Disaster capitalism
• First World problem (a relatively trivial problem only affecting the affluent)
• First responder (the member of the emergency services to arrive at a disaster)
• Flirting with disaster
• Golden flake. With southern fried crunch (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• Government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem (Political slogan)
• Houston, we have a problem (John Swigert Jr. quotation)
• I've fallen and I can't get up! (LifeCall Personal Emergency Response Systems advertising slogan)
• Identity crisis
• If you're not a part of the solution, you're part of the problem