Disaster Phrases

Phrases

• A recipe for disaster
• Accident prone
• Accident waiting to happen
• An accident waiting to happen
• Asking for trouble
• Borrow trouble
• Calamity Jane (Nickname of Martha Cannary Burke)
• Cock up
• Complete shambles
• Courting disaster
• Crack of doom
• Crash and burn

• Credit crunch
• Crisis management
• Crisis, what crisis? (Jim Callaghan quotation)
• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
• Disaster capitalism
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Double trouble
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• First responder (the member of the emergency services to arrive at a disaster)
• Flirting with disaster
• Happy accident
• Hell bent

• Here comes trouble
• I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor Swift song)
• Identity crisis
• In trouble
• Looking for trouble
• Make trouble
• Nose for trouble
• Play havoc with
• Stir up trouble
• That's blown it
• The brink of disaster
• The shit hits the fan

• The writing is on the wall
• This is a local shop, we'll have no trouble here (A catchphrase from The League of Gentlemen)
• Train crash
• Train wreck
• Trouble and strife (Cockney rhyming slang for wife)
• Trouble in Paradise
• Trouble with a capital T
• Tummy trouble
• Up to your neck in trouble
• We won't make a drama out of a crisis (Commercial Union advertising slogan)
• When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me (Beatles song lyric)
• Wreak havoc