Goal Phrases

Phrases

• A goal in mind
• A means to an end
• Abide with me (hymn traditionally sung at the English football Cup Final)
• Accidentally on purpose
• Aim high
• All Day (Nickname of American football player Adrian Peterson)
• All good things must come to an end
• All is fish that comes to the net
• Am I my brother's keeper?
• And the next object is (A catchphrase from Twenty Questions)
• Appalachian Spring (Aaron Copland musical score)
• Are you ready for some football?
• At a loose end
• At the end of a gun
• At the end of the day
• At the end of your rope
• At the end of your tether
• At your wits' end
• Bad Moon (Nickname of American football player Andre Rison)
• Bart the Cool (Nickname of American football player Bart Starr)
• Big Al (Nickname of football player Alan Shearer and of basketball player Al Jefferson)
• Big Ben (Nickname of basketball player Ben Wallace and American football player Ben Roethlisberger)
• Big Cat (Nickname of American football player Leon Lett)
• Big Daddy (Nickname of American football Dan Wilkinson)
• Big Phil (Nickname of football manager Luiz Felipe Scolari)
• Big Sam (Nickname of football manager Sam Allardyce)
• Blonde ambition
• Bring to an end
• Business end
• Can't see beyond the end of your nose
• Cast the net wide
• Champagne Tony (Nickname of American football player Tony Eason)
• Cheer up, it's not the end of the world
• Come to a sticky end
• Crazy Legs (Nickname of American football player Elroy Hirsch)
• Dandy Don (Nickname of American football player Don Meredith)
• Dead end
• Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom
• Dream big
• Driven by success
• Driving ambition
• End in itself
• End of a perfect day
• End of an era
• End of story
• End of the ball game
• End of the line
• End product
• End up at
• Evil intent
• Fit for purpose
• Four score and seven years ago
• Fourth Quarter Vince (Nickname of American football player Vince Young)
• Fred Ex (Nickname of American football player Freddie Mitchell)
• Garbage Man (Nickname of American football player Michael Bradley)
• General purpose
• Get busy living, or get busy dying (line from the movie The Shawshank Redemption)
• Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
• Get to the end of your tether
• Get your end away
• Go off the deep end
• Golden Guus (Nickname of football manager Guus Hiddink)
• Have your hair stand on end
• He Hate Me (Nickname of American football player Rod Smart)
• Heavy Lunch (Nickname of American football player Norman Hand)
• Higher purpose
• It will all end in tears
• It's The End Of The World As We Know It (R.E.M. song)
• It's not the journey, it's the destination.
• Journey's end
• Keep score
• Keep your end up
• Know the score
• Know which end is up
• Light at the end of the tunnel
• Makes your hair stands on end
• Man on a mission
• Money is no object
• Moving the goalposts
• Net meeting
• Never hear the end of it
• Ninth inning (A baseball expression meaning an event or process is near the end)
• No end of
• No one likes us, we don't care (A catchphrase from Millwall football supporters)
• Not fit for purpose
• Not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning
• Object lesson
• On me head son (Invitation to cross a football so that another player can head it)
• On the receiving end
• Political football
• Put an end to
• Safety net
• Score an own goal
• Score points off
• Score to settle
• Shallow end
• Shit (or short) end of the stick
• Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
• Short end of the stick
• Sitting target
• Soccer Mom
• Soccer Mom indicator
• Soft target
• Surf the net
• Take aim
• That Obscure Object Of Desire (Luis Bunuel movie)
• That's a keeper
• The American dream
• The Blue End State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
• The Crazy Gang (Nickname of Wimbledon Football Club)
• The End Of The World (Nickname of Anchorage Alaska)
• The Special One (Nickname of football manager Jose Mourinho)
• The be all and end all
• The beginning of the end
• The bitter end
• The deep end
• The end of civilization as we know it
• The end of the road
• The end of the world is nigh
• The light at the end of the tunnel may just be a train coming the other way
• The means to an end
• The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
• The shit end of the stick
• The short end of the stick
• The thick end of
• The war to end wars
• Thin end of the wedge
• Three score and ten
• Thrown in at the deep end
• Till the end of time
• Toward this end
• We aim to please
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)
• Word association football
• World without end