Fives Phrases

Phrases

• Bunch of fives
• Five by five
• Five figures
• Five fingered discount
• Five for silver (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Five golden rings (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Five o-clock shadow
• Five, six, pick up sticks (line from nursery rhyme)
• Full fathom five
• Full fathom five thy father lies (from The Tempest by Shakespeare)
• Gimme, five
• Glad All Over (Dave Clark Five song)
• High five
• Know how many beans make five
• Nine To Five (Lily Tomlin / Dolly Parton / Jane Fonda movie)
• Platinum Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting striking out five times in a game)
• Silver wedding (a celebration of twenty-five years of marriage)
• Snakes alive (Bingo call for number fifty five)
• Take Five (Dave Brubeck tune)
• Take five
• The Big Five
• The Famous Five (characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book)
• The Five Orange Pips (Sherlock Holmes story)
• This tape will self-destruct in five seconds (A catchphrase from Mission Impossible)
• Two and two make five