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Gun Phrases
295 phrases and expressions related to "gun".
Phrases
- A View To A Kill (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
- A big shot
- A bigger bang for your buck
- A tiger in your tank
- Air shot
- All guns blazing
- America's Favorite Cowboy (Nickname of actor Gene Autry)
- Appetite For Destruction (Guns N' Roses album)
- Assault with a deadly weapon
- At the end of a gun
- Ball of fire
- Bang goes nothing
- Bang on
- Bang on about
- Bang out of order
- Bang to rights
- Bang your head against a brick wall
- Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head (The Beatles song lyric)
- Baptism of fire
- Bernie, the bolt (A catchphrase from The Golden Shot)
- Big Shot Becky (Nickname of basketball player Becky Hammon)
- Big Shot Bob (Nickname of basketball player Robert Horry)
- Big bang
- Big shot
- Bite the bullet
- Blaze away at
- Blow great guns
- Blow your brains out
- Booster shot
- Breathe fire
- Bricks and mortar (Cockney rhyming slang for daughter)
- Bullet Joe (Nickname of baseball player Charles Rogan)
- C'mon Colman's, light my fire (Colman's Mustard advertising slogan)
- Cannon fodder
- Catch fire
- Cheap shot
- Chew a gun
- Chicago piano
- Chicago typewriter
- Chinese fire drill
- Choose your weapon
- Clicks and mortar
- Come On Baby Light My Fire (The Doors song)
- Come home to a real fire (Coal Board advertising slogan)
- Cowboy coffee
- Cowboy marketing
- Crazy Gun Barney (Nickname of Barney Fife (Don Knotts))
- Desperate Dan (a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The Dandy)
- Dodged a bullet
- Don't shoot the messenger
- Don't shoot the piano player
- Don't shoot until you can see the whites of their eyes
- Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
- Draw someone's fire
- Dressed to kill
- Drive by shooting
- Drugstore cowboy
- Drunk tank
- Faster than a speeding bullet (A catchphrase from Superman)
- Fight fire with fire
- Fire And Rain (James Taylor song)
- Fire Sale
- Fire and brimstone
- Fire away
- Fire down below
- Fire engine red
- Fire in the hole
- Fire in your belly
- Fire storm
- Fire the imagination (inspire with enthusiasm)
- Fire up the Quattro (A catchphrase from Gene Glenister In Ashes To Ashes)
- Flash in the pan
- Friendly fire
- Gang bang
- Gangster rap
- Get a bang out of something
- Get on like a house on fire
- Get shot of
- Give it the gun
- Give it your best shot
- Go great guns
- Go in for the kill
- Go postal
- Go through fire and water for
- Go with a bang
- Great Balls Of Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis song)
- Grunt cruncher (military tank - grunt is a slang term for infantryman)
- Gun down
- Gunboat diplomacy
- Gunfight At The O K Corral (Burt Lancaster / Kurt Douglas movie)
- Gunpowder treason and plot (line from nursery rhyme)
- Guns before butter (Political slogan)
- Hair trigger
- Hang fire
- Happiness Is A Warm Gun (The Beatles song)
- Harp puts out the fire (Harp Lager advertising slogan)
- Have a shot at
- Have gun, will travel (A catchphrase from TV series)
- Have many irons in the fire
- He shot through like a Bondi tram
- Heap coals of fire on someone's head
- Hire and fire
- Hold a gun to his head
- Hot shot
- I Shot The Sheriff (Eric Clapton song)
- I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? (Beatles song lyric)
- I'd kill for a cup of tea
- If I tell you I will have to shoot you
- If I tell you, I'll have to kill you
- If looks could kill
- In at the kill
- In the line of fire
- Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
- Jump the gun
- Just shoot me
- Keep your powder dry
- Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino movie)
- Kill or be killed
- Kill or cure
- Kill stone dead
- Kill the fatted calf
- Kill the goose that lays the golden egg
- Kill time
- Kill time until time kills you
- Kill two birds with one stone
- Kill with kindness
- Laser Rocket Arm (Nickname of Peyton Manning)
- Leave the gun, take the cannoli (line from The Godfather)
- Liar liar: pants on fire
- Licence To Kill (James Bond movie Timothy Dalton)
- Licensed to kill
- Light My Fire (The Doors song)
- Light a fire under him
- Light a fire under some
- Like a pig from a gun
- Like a shot
- Little Sure Shot (Nickname of Annie Oakley)
- Lock stock and barrel
- Long shot
- Loose cannon
- Machine Gun Kelly (Nickname of George Kelly)
- Magic bullet
- Magnum opus
- Mail shot
- Midnight Cowboy (Dustin Hoffman / Jon Voight movie)
- More bang for your buck
- Mother Superior jumped the gun (Beatles song lyric)
- Mr. Big Shot (Nickname of Chauncey Billups)
- Mr. Cowboy (Nickname of Bob Lilly)
- Never fired in anger
- Not by a long shot
- Not with a bang but a whimper (from a poem by Eliot)
- Not with a bang but with a whimper
- Open fire
- Out of the frying pan into the fire
- Pack heat
- Packing heat
- Packing lead
- Parting shot
- Perfect shot
- Piss like a fire engine
- Pistol Pete (Nickname of Pete Maravich)
- Pistol Pete (Nickname of Pete Sampras)
- Play with fire
- Poacher turned gamekeeper
- Pull the trigger
- Pull your chestnuts out of the fire
- Put a gun to your head
- Put a tiger in Your Tank (Esso advertising slogan)
- Quick on the draw
- Rear gunner (slang term for a homosexual)
- Remember remember the fifth of November (line from nursery rhyme)
- Rhinestone cowboy
- Ride shotgun
- Rifle through
- Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash song)
- Road kill
- Rootin'est, tootin'est cowboy
- Rubber bullet (a bullet made of rubber or plastic and used for riot control)
- Run toward the sound of gunfire
- Russian roulette
- Saturday night special
- Secret weapon
- See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
- See what we mean (Canon advertising slogan)
- Set Fire to the Rain (Adele song)
- Set the Thames on fire
- Set the world on fire
- Set your hair on fire
- Shoot 'em up
- Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
- Shoot a fairy
- Shoot blanks
- Shoot down in flames (destroy an argument or theory)
- Shoot first, ask questions later
- Shoot from the hip
- Shoot him down in flames
- Shoot hoops
- Shoot it out
- Shoot me now
- Shoot on sight
- Shoot someone a line
- Shoot straight (to talk or deal honestly)
- Shoot the breeze
- Shoot the moon (remove household goods by night to avoid paying rent)
- Shoot the puppy
- Shoot through (to leave or abscond)
- Shoot to kill
- Shoot your cuffs
- Shoot your mouth off
- Shoot yourself in the foot
- Shooting war
- Shootout at the OK Corral
- Shot across the bows
- Shot in the arm
- Shot in the dark
- Shot to hell
- Shot while trying to escape
- Shotgun wedding
- Silver bullet (a simple and seeming effortless solution to a difficult problem)
- Slap bang in the middle
- Smoking gun
- Son of a gun
- Stick to your guns
- Stop, or my mom will shoot (line from Sylvestor Stallone movie)
- Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) (Kelly Clarkson song)
- Take a pot shot at
- That which does not kill us makes us stronger (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
- The Bronze Goddess of Fire (Nickname of LaWanda Page)
- The Cajun Cannon (Nickname of Bobby Hebert)
- The Cowboy State (Nickname of the US state of Wyoming)
- The Fast Gun From Texas (Nickname of Dan Troop (John Russell))
- The Fighting Cowboy (Nickname of James Tillis)
- The Gun That Won The West (Nickname of the Colt revolver)
- The Guns Of Navarone (Gregory Peck / David Niven movie)
- The Hoosier Hot Shot (Nickname of humourist Herb Shriner)
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (James Stewart / John Wayne movie)
- The Man With The Golden Gun (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
- The Mississippi Bullet (Nickname of Monta Ellis)
- The Polish Cannon (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
- The Reading Rifle (Nickname of Carl Furillo)
- The Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash song)
- The Singing Cowboy (Nickname of Gene Autry)
- The Singing Cowboy (Nickname of Roy Rogers)
- The Springfield Rifle (Nickname of Vic Raschi)
- The cereal that's shot from guns! (Quaker Puffed Wheat advertising slogan)
- The fat is in the fire
- The heavy artillery
- The money shot
- The shot heard around the world
- There's a tiger in my tank
- There's no smoke without fire
- They Shoot Horses Don't They? (Jane Fonda movie)
- This Wheel's On Fire (Bob Dylan song)
- Thou shalt not kill
- Throw Another Log On The Fire (Outlaws song)
- Time to kill
- To Kill A Mockingbird (Gregory Peck movie)
- Too many irons in the fire
- Trigger happy
- Turkey shoot
- Two irons in the fire
- Under fire
- Under the gun
- Urban cowboy
- We've got you covered
- Welcome to the Jungle (Guns n Roses song)
- Where there's smoke there's fire
- Where's the fire?
- Who's finger do you want on the trigger?
- With both barrels
- You couldn't catch a monkey with a shotgun and a sack
- You'll get shot
Related
- At the end of a gun
- Chew a gun
- Crazy Gun Barney (Nickname of Barney Fife (Don Knotts))
- Give it the gun
- Gun down
- Happiness Is A Warm Gun (The Beatles song)
- Have gun, will travel (A catchphrase from TV series)
- Hold a gun to his head
- Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
- Jump the gun
- Leave the gun, take the cannoli (line from The Godfather)
- Like a pig from a gun
- Machine Gun Kelly (Nickname of George Kelly)
- Mother Superior jumped the gun (Beatles song lyric)
- Put a gun to your head
- See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
- Smoking gun
- Son of a gun
- The Fast Gun From Texas (Nickname of Dan Troop (John Russell))
- The Gun That Won The West (Nickname of the Colt revolver)
- The Man With The Golden Gun (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
- Under the gun