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Fish Phrases

173 phrases and expressions related to "fish".

Phrases

  • Bleak House (Charles Dickens book)
  • Boom Boom (Nickname of boxer Ray Mancini)
  • Bottom feeder
  • Built to scale
  • Cast the net wide
  • Catch as catch can
  • Catch of the day
  • Champagne wishes and caviar dreams (Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous sign-off)
  • Cheap skate
  • Clam up
  • Click bait (an eye ctaching word or image on a website)
  • Cock a snook
  • Cold fish
  • Cry stinking fish
  • Cut bait
  • Dab hand at
  • Fishing for compliments
  • Flirty fishing
  • Georgia On My Mind (Ray Charles song)
  • Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
  • Gone fishing
  • Got bigger fish to fry
  • Green around the gills
  • Hallelujah, I Love Her So (Ray Charles song)
  • Hit The Road Jack (Ray Charles song)
  • Holy mackerel
  • Holy mackerel! (A catchphrase from Kingfish In Amos 'N' Andy Show)
  • Hook line and sinker
  • Hunky dory (1971 album by David Bowie)
  • Hunt down
  • I Can't Stop Loving You (Ray Charles song)
  • I Got A Woman (Ray Charles song)
  • In An Octopus's Garden In The Shade (The Beatles song)
  • In The Bleak Midwinter (Christmas Carol title)
  • Jack Sprat could eat no fat (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Jack the Dripper (Nickname of Jackson Pollack)
  • Jail bait
  • Jesus Shuttlesworth (Nickname of Ray Allen)
  • Jump the shark
  • Killer Ray (Nickname of Ray Allen)
  • Like a fish out of water
  • Like shooting fish in a barrel
  • Little fish in a big pond (someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers)
  • Loan shark
  • Muscle bound
  • Muscle in on
  • Muscle man
  • My Ding A Ling (Chuck Berry song)
  • Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
  • Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish (Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band song)
  • Octopus's Garden (The Beatles song)
  • Odd fish
  • Off the scale
  • Old trout
  • On a grand scale
  • On a par with
  • Only the best for the Captain's table (Birdseye advertising slogan)
  • Par excellence
  • Par for the course
  • Pink pantella puffer (slang term for a homosexual)
  • Pretty kettle of fish
  • Put some muscle into it
  • Queer fish
  • Ray Of Light (Madonna album)
  • Ray of light
  • Red herring
  • Rise to the bait
  • Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
  • Save the whale
  • Scale the dizzy heights
  • School of fish
  • Sea Bass (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
  • Semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower (Beatles song lyric)
  • Shark repellent
  • Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
  • Sleeping with the fishes
  • Smack dab in the middle
  • Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast (A catchphrase from Red Dwarf)
  • So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
  • Sprat to catch a mackerel
  • Sugar Ray Robinson (Nickname of Walker Smith Jr.)
  • Super Bass (Nicki Minaj song)
  • Surf and turf
  • Swim with sharks
  • Take These Chains From My Heart (Ray Charles song)
  • Take the bait
  • That dog won't hunt
  • The Big Tuna (Nickname of Bill Parcells)
  • The Crab (Nickname of Ray Wilkins)
  • The Flying Fisherman (Nickname of Roscoe Vernon Gaddis)
  • The Great White Shark (Nickname of Greg Norman)
  • The Little Mermaid (Disney cartoon movie)
  • The Prince of Wails (Nickname of Johnny Ray)
  • The Rain Man (Nickname of Ray Allen)
  • The Shark (Nickname of Jeff Samardzija)
  • The halibut capital of the world (Nickname of Homer Alaska)

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