Fence Phrases

Phrases

• A Whiter Shade Of Pale (Procol Harum song)
• Argue the toss
• Beyond the pale
• Blue screen of death
• Break the sound barrier
• Chinese homer
• Coming to a screen near you
• Deep Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Don't fence me in
• En garde
• Flying picket
• Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)

• Good fences make good neighbours
• Hedge fund
• Hedge your bets
• Keep wicket
• Language barrier
• Mend your fences
• Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Pain barrier
• Pale and interesting
• Pale imitation
• Pale into insignificance
• Pale shadow

• Picket fence
• Picket line
• Ring fencing
• Screen grab
• Screen time
• Short Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silver screen
• Sit on the fence
• Sitting on the fence
• Star of stage and screen
• Star of the silver screen
• Sticky wicket

• Surround sound
• Swing for the fences (A baseball expression meaning try for a substantial gain)
• The Bamboo Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist China)
• The Great Barrier Reef (tourist attraction in Australia)
• The Iron Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist states)
• The big screen
• The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
• The small screen
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)
• You look as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards