Grind Phrases

Phrases

• As solid as the ground we walk on
• Axe to grind
• Beast of burden
• Bow and scrape
• Break new ground
• Built from the ground up
• Bump and grind
• Burden of proof
• Common ground
• Cut the ground from under your feet
• Daily grind (the daily routine of a dull or boring job)
• Dark And Bloody Ground (Nickname of the US state of Kentucky)
• Doesn't know his arse from a hole in the ground
• Don't let the bastards grind you down
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• Down to the ground
• Fall on stony ground
• Gain ground
• Get in on the ground floor
• Get into a scrape
• Get off the ground
• Go to ground
• Grate on the ear
• Grind to a halt
• Ground Hog Day (Nickname of basketball player Tim Duncan)
• Ground ball (A baseball expression meaning a prosaic or ordinary accomplishment)
• Ground zero
• Happy hunting ground
• Hasn't got two cents to rub together
• Hit the ground running
• I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat (Winston Churchill quotation)
• I want to talk to the organ grinder not the monkey
• In on the ground floor
• Indian file
• Keep your ear to the ground
• Keep your feet on the ground
• Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars (A catchphrase from Casey Kasem In America's Top 40)
• Keep your nose to the grindstone
• Lose ground on
• Neutral ground
• Not two pennies to rub together
• On dangerous ground
• Political high ground
• Prepare the ground
• Rank and file
• Raze to the ground
• Rub a dub (Cockney rhyming slang for pub)
• Rub a dub dub men in a tub
• Rub along with
• Rub it in
• Rub of the green
• Rub out
• Rub salt in the wound
• Rub shoulders with
• Rub someone's nose in it
• Rub up the wrong way
• Rub your nose in it
• Run to ground
• Scrape a living
• Shoulder to the grindstone
• Single file
• Slog away
• So fast your feet won't touch the ground
• Stamping ground
• Suits you down to the ground
• Ten summersets he'll undertake on solid ground (Beatles song lyric)
• The moral high ground
• Thin on the ground
• To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub
• White man's burden
• Work yourself into the ground
• You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground