Earl Phrases

Phrases

• A crocodile sandwich please - and make it snappy
• Absolute power corrupts absolutely (quotation by Lord Acton)
• After the Lord Mayor's parade
• As black as the Earl of Hell's waistcoat
• As drunk as a lord
• Belted earl
• Black Moses (Nickname of basketball player Baron Davis)
• Boom Dizzle (Nickname of basketball player Baron Davis)
• Bright and early
• Ditty Bop (Nickname of basketball player Baron Davis)
• Duke it out
• Duke's mixture
• Earl the Pearl (Nickname of basketball player Earl Monroe)
• Earl the Squirrel (Nickname of basketball player Earl Boykins)
• Early adopter
• Early bath
• Early bird
• Early black
• Early days
• Early doors
• Early riser
• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise
• Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs tune title)
• How long, O Lord, how long?
• It's the early bird that gets the worm
• Knuckle sandwich
• Live like a lord
• Lord Clark of Civilisation (Nickname of Kenneth Clark)
• Lord Fred (Cockney rhyming slang for bed)
• Lord Haw-Haw (Nickname of William Joyce)
• Lord Of The Flies (William Golding book)
• Lord Of The Rings (J R R Tolkien book)
• Lord it over
• Lord love a duck
• Lucky Lucan (Nickname of The Earl of Lucan)
• Madman Muntz (Nickname of Earl William Muntz)
• My Sweet Lord (George Harrison song)
• My precious (The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers)
• Phil The Greek (Nickname of Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh)
• Post early for Christmas (Post Office advertising slogan)
• Praise the lord and pass the ammunition
• Pump your money back into Canada (Petro Canada, early advertising slogan)
• Red Baron (Nickname of Rick Sutcliffe)
• Sandwich generation
• Sparrow fart (jokey term for the early morning)
• Stupid-o'-clock (US army slang term that refers to any time very early in the morning)
• Take The A Train (Duke Ellington tune)
• The Body Guard (Nickname of Baron Davis)
• The Duke (Pseudonym of Marion Michael Morrison a.k.a.John Wayne)
• The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Iron Duke (Nickname of Arthur Duke of Wellington)
• The Lord of the Idiots (Nickname of George Costanza (Jason Alexander))
• The Lord of the Rings (J R R Tolkien story and Peter Jackson movie)
• The Red Baron (Nickname of Baron Manfred von Richtofen)
• The Tyler Rose (Nickname of Earl Campbell)
• The early bird catches the worm
• The favoured of the Lord
• The valley of the shadow of death (line from Psalm 23)
• Tobacco baron
• Too Easy (Nickname of Baron Davis)
• Why ask why? Try Bud Dry (Budweiser Earl advertising slogan)