Fleet Phrases

Phrases

• Abandon ship
• Accelerate your life (US Navy advertising slogan)
• As fast as greased lightning
• As fast as his legs could carry him
• Bad news travels fast
• Blazing fast
• Boat person
• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• Boutros Boutros Ghali (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Does my bum look big in this? (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Don't give up the ship (Cutty Sark Whisky advertising slogan)
• Don't rock the boat
• Don't spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of tar
• Fast Freddie (Nickname of Andrew Flintoff - English cricketer)
• Fast acting
• Fast and furious
• Fast as greased lightning
• Fast as his legs could carry him
• Fast buck
• Fast food and good for you (Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Fast forward
• Fast lane
• Fast mover
• Fast movers (US and Canadian military slang term for jet fighters, especially ground)
• Fast track
• Fleet footed
• Fleet of foot
• Fleeting glimpse
• Fresh off the boat
• Get nowhere fast
• Go down with the ship
• Going nowhere fast
• Grub Street hack
• Hard and fast
• Hold fast
• I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor Swift song)
• I was very very drunk (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• I'm a little bit wooooor, a little bit waaaaaaaaaayy, I'm a geezer! (A catchphrase from Chris The Crafty Cockney In The Fast Show)
• In the same boat
• It's jack-a-licious! (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• Jack's back (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• Jump ship
• Kiss me Hardy (Admiral Nelson quotation)
• Life in the fast lane
• Like rats leaving a sinking ship
• Love Story (Taylor Swift song)
• Make fast
• Miss the boat
• Mother ship
• My ship has come in
• Navy blue
• Not so fast
• Pat a cake, Pat a cake, baker's man, bake me a cake as fast as you can (line from nursery rhyme)
• Play fast and loose
• Pull a fast one
• Push the boat out
• Rear admiral (naval rank)
• Row, row, row your boat
• Run a tight ship
• Shape up or ship out
• Ship of fools
• Ship shape and Bristol fashion
• Ship to shore
• So fast your feet won't touch the ground
• Suit you, sir (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Swift half
• That ship has sailed
• The Big Ship Sails on The Ally-Ally-Oh (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Nickname of Sweeney Todd)
• The Fast Gun From Texas (Nickname of Dan Troop (John Russell))
• The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat (line from nursery rhyme)
• The fleet's in
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• There's fast food, and then there's KFC (KFC advertising slogan)
• Thick and fast
• Think fast
• We're gonna need a bigger boat (Jaws advertising tagline)
• Whatever floats your boat
• Which was nice (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• You're going to need a bigger boat (Jaws)