Dock Phrases

Phrases

• A prophet is not recognized in his own land
• Any port in a storm
• As god is my witness
• Attack is the best form of defence
• Australian defence
• Bear false witness
• Bear witness
• Brighton Pier (Cockney rhyming slang for queer)
• Bumper crop
• Can I Get A Witness? (Marvin Gaye song)
• Clip joint
• Clip your wings
• Cloud cuckoo land
• Contempt of court
• Court of last resort (a legal court from which no further appeals may be made)
• Court popularity
• Cream of the crop ()
• Crop up
• Evenin' all (A catchphrase from Dixon Of Dock Green)
• From the Land of Sky-Blue Waters (Hamm's Beer advertising slogan)
• Give someone a wide berth
• Great Land (Nickname of the US state of Alaska)
• Harbour a grudge
• Haul before the court
• He's a real nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land (The Beatles song lyric)
• Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Hold court
• In dock
• In the dock
• In the land of Nod
• In the land of the living
• Kangaroo court
• La la land
• Land ahoy
• Land grab
• Land locked
• Land of hope and glory
• Land of make believe
• Land of milk and honey
• Land of nod
• Land of the pharaohs
• Land office business
• Land on your feet
• Land up in
• Land's sake
• Laugh it out of court
• Laughed out of court
• Lend a hand on the land (WWII slogan)
• Living off the fat of the land
• May it please the court
• Mind how you go (A catchphrase from Dixon of Dock Green)
• Mute witness
• Neck and crop
• Never never land
• No man's land
• Noble art of self defence
• On The Waterfront (Marlon Brando movie and Clark Gable movie)
• Order in the court
• POSH - Port out, starboard home (false attribution of the origin of the word posh)
• Please address the court
• Safe harbour
• See you in court
• Settle out of court
• Silent witness
• Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay (Otis Redding song)
• Spring to your defence
• Sydney Harbour Bridge (tourist attraction in Sydney Australia)
• Take a long walk off a short pier
• The Boston Tea Party (historical event where chests of tea were dumped into Boston harbour)
• The Land of The Rising Sun (Nickname of Japan)
• The Waste Land
• The ball is in your court
• The best defence is a good offence
• The court will rise
• The cream of the crop
• The land of Nod
• The land of the free
• The land that time forgot
• The law of the land
• The lay of the land
• The length and breadth of the land
• The lie of the land
• This Hard Land (Bruce Springsteen song)
• This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie song)
• Thus far into the bowels of the land
• Trial and error
• Trial and tribulation
• Trial by television