Dead Phrases

Phrases

• A big shot
• Absolute power corrupts absolutely (quotation by Lord Acton)
• Absolutely Fabulous (BBC comedy television series)
• Absolutely pure (Cadbury's Cocoa Essence advertising slogan)
• Air shot
• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
• As dead as a dodo
• As dead as a doornail
• As dead as mutton
• As dull as ditchwater
• As stiff as a poker
• Asleep at the switch
• Asleep at the wheel
• Asleep with Jesus
• Assault with a deadly weapon
• At death's door
• At peace
• At rest
• At the dead of night
• Back from the dead
• Badgered to death
• Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me (from a poem by Dickinson)
• Belly up
• Bernie, the bolt (A catchphrase from The Golden Shot)
• Better dead than red
• Better late than never
• Better off dead
• Big Shot Becky (Nickname of basketball player Becky Hammon)
• Big Shot Bob (Nickname of basketball player Robert Horry)
• Big shot
• Blue screen of death
• Booster shot
• Bored stiff
• Bored to death
• Brain dead
• Bring out your dead
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• Brush with death
• Buzzard meat
• Cake or death (line from Eddie Izzard comedy)
• Catch your death of cold
• Cement shoes
• Cheap shot
• Chivalry is not dead
• Cold meat
• Concrete shoes
• Cot death
• Cowards may die many times before their death
• Cross over to the other side
• Cut out the dead wood
• Cut someone dead
• Daily grind (the daily routine of a dull or boring job)
• Dance of death
• Day late and a dollar short
• Dead Man Walking (Helen Prejean book)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)
• Dead Ringer For Love (Meatloaf song)
• Dead air
• Dead and buried
• Dead and gone
• Dead cat bounce
• Dead cinch
• Dead duck
• Dead easy
• Dead end
• Dead from the neck up
• Dead giveaway
• Dead heads
• Dead heat
• Dead in the water
• Dead issue
• Dead letter
• Dead loss
• Dead man walking
• Dead meat
• Dead men tell no tales
• Dead men's shoes
• Dead of night
• Dead of winter
• Dead on arrival
• Dead on time
• Dead presidents
• Dead reckoning
• Dead ringer
• Dead to rights
• Dead to the world
• Dead white European male (derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation)
• Dead white male
• Dead wood
• Death In Venice (Dirk Bogade / Luchino Visconti movie)
• Death On The Nile (Agatha Christie book)
• Death On The Orient Express (Agatha Christie book)
• Death Valley (tourist attraction in Arizona USA)
• Death by PowerPoint
• Death by a thousand cuts
• Death by chocolate
• Death by committee
• Death by misadventure
• Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down
• Death metal
• Death of a Salesman (play by Arthur Miller)
• Death trap
• Depart this life
• Dice with death
• Dick and Jane is dead (Encyclopaedia Britannica advertising slogan)
• Die a death
• Do something to death
• Domestos kills all known germs - Dead! (Domestos Bleach advertising slogan)
• Done to death
• Down among the dead men
• Drop dead
• Drop dead gorgeous
• Drop dead list
• Drop down dead
• Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
• Dropped off the perch
• Fall asleep
• Fashionably late
• Fate worse than death
• Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
• Flogging a dead horse
• Get shot of
• Give it your best shot
• Give me liberty or give me death
• Given up for dead
• God is dead (philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche)
• Gone before
• Gone but not forgotten
• Good and dead
• Grim death
• Grip of death
• Group of death (the most difficult or competitive group in a sports tournament)
• Half asleep
• Hang by the neck until dead
• Hang on like grim death
• Have a shot at
• He shot through like a Bondi tram

• He's dead Jim (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• Headless chicken
• Hot chocolate, drinking chocolate - the late, late drink (Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate advertising slogan)
• Hot shot
• I Shot The Sheriff (Eric Clapton song)
• I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
• I wouldn't be caught dead
• If it ain't Stiff it ain't worth a f*ck (Stiff Records advertising slogan)
• If you keep late hours for Society's sake, Bromo-Seltzer will cure that headache (Bromo-Seltzer advertising slogan)
• In Abraham's bosom
• In at the death
• In the grave
• In the midst of life we are in death
• Into the valley of death rode the six hundred
• It's never too late
• It's never too late to learn
• John Doe
• Keep a stiff upper lip
• Kicking dead whales down the beach
• Kill stone dead
• Kills bugs dead (Raid advertising slogan)
• Kiss of death
• Knock 'em dead
• Laid to rest
• Laid up in lavender
• Last rites
• Late bloomer
• Late developer
• Late hour
• Late in the day
• Late in the game
• Late lamented
• Left for dead
• Let the dead bury the dead
• Lie in state
• Life after death
• Life and death struggle
• Like a shot
• Like being savaged by a dead sheep
• Like death warmed up
• Little Sure Shot (Nickname of Annie Oakley)
• Long shot
• Look death in the eye
• Loud enough to waken the dead
• Mail shot
• Matter of life and death
• Meet your maker
• Merchant of death
• Missing, presumed lost
• More dead than alive
• Mr. Big Shot (Nickname of Chauncey Billups)
• Near death experience
• Never a dull moment
• Never speak ill of the dead
• No longer with us
• Not by a long shot
• Nothing is certain but death and taxes
• Numbered with the dead
• On death row
• On pain of death
• Out of the jaws of death
• Over my dead body
• Parting shot
• Pass on
• Pass over to the other side
• Perfect shot
• Play dead
• Post mortem
• Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely
• Pushing up daisies
• Put the fear of death into someone
• Put to death
• Raise the dead
• Rictus grin
• Rigor mortis
• Roll over and play dead
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play by Tom Stoppard)
• Running late
• Scared stiff
• Scared to death
• See You Late Alligator (Bill Haley song)
• Seven deadly sins
• Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
• Shot across the bows
• Shot in the arm
• Shot in the dark
• Shot to hell
• Shot while trying to escape
• Sick to death of
• Six feet under
• Skeleton in the cupboard
• Skeleton key
• Skeleton staff
• Sleeping with the fishes
• Snatched from us
• Stiff competition
• Street pizza
• Take a pot shot at
• The Angel of Death (Nickname of Josef Mengele)
• The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) (The Chipmunks and David Seville song)
• The Day of the Dead (Horror movie)
• The Hoosier Hot Shot (Nickname of humourist Herb Shriner)
• The Hypochondriac's Guide To Life And Death (Gene Weingarten book)
• The King is dead, long live the King
• The King of Late Night Television (Nickname of Jack Paar)
• The Living Death (Nickname of Lew Jenkins)
• The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (Bob Dylan song)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (James Stewart / John Wayne movie)
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The cereal that's shot from guns! (Quaker Puffed Wheat advertising slogan)
• The departed
• The empty chair (the perceived absense of someone who is recently deceased)
• The female of the species is more deadly than the male
• The late unpleasantness
• The money shot
• The only good Indian is a dead Indian
• The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
• The shot heard around the world
• The valley of the shadow of death (line from the Lord's Prayer)
• The wages of sin is death
• There are no pockets in a shroud
• Tickled to death
• Till Death Us Do Part (BBC comedy television series)
• Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars (Buick advertising slogan)
• Tonight's top ten list (A catchphrase from David Letterman In The Late Show)
• Too little, too late
• Turn up your toes
• Until death do us part
• Victory won't wait for the nation that's late (Big Ben Clocks advertising slogan)
• Wall of death
• Wanted, dead or alive
• When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight (FedEx advertising slogan)
• Whispering Death (Nickname of Michael Holding - West Indies cricketer)
• Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
• You'll be the death of me
• You'll get shot
• You're a long time dead
• Zombie funds

Related

• As dead as a dodo
• As dead as a doornail
• As dead as mutton
• At the dead of night
• Back from the dead
• Better dead than red
• Better off dead
• Brain dead
• Bring out your dead
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• Chivalry is not dead
• Cut out the dead wood
• Cut someone dead
• Dead Man Walking (Helen Prejean book)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)
• Dead Ringer For Love (Meatloaf song)
• Dead air
• Dead and buried
• Dead and gone
• Dead cat bounce
• Dead cinch
• Dead duck
• Dead easy
• Dead end
• Dead from the neck up
• Dead giveaway
• Dead heads
• Dead heat
• Dead in the water
• Dead issue
• Dead letter
• Dead loss
• Dead man walking
• Dead meat
• Dead men tell no tales
• Dead men's shoes
• Dead of night
• Dead of winter
• Dead on arrival
• Dead on time
• Dead presidents
• Dead reckoning
• Dead ringer
• Dead to rights
• Dead to the world
• Dead white European male (derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation)
• Dead white male
• Dead wood
• Dick and Jane is dead (Encyclopaedia Britannica advertising slogan)
• Domestos kills all known germs - Dead! (Domestos Bleach advertising slogan)
• Down among the dead men
• Drop dead
• Drop dead gorgeous
• Drop dead list
• Drop down dead
• Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
• Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
• Flogging a dead horse
• Given up for dead
• God is dead (philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche)
• Good and dead
• Hang by the neck until dead
• He's dead Jim (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
• I wouldn't be caught dead
• Kicking dead whales down the beach
• Kill stone dead
• Kills bugs dead (Raid advertising slogan)
• Knock 'em dead
• Left for dead
• Let the dead bury the dead
• Like being savaged by a dead sheep
• Loud enough to waken the dead
• More dead than alive
• Never speak ill of the dead
• Numbered with the dead
• Over my dead body
• Play dead
• Raise the dead
• Roll over and play dead
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play by Tom Stoppard)
• The Day of the Dead (Horror movie)
• The King is dead, long live the King
• The only good Indian is a dead Indian
• Wanted, dead or alive
• Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
• You're a long time dead