Gunpowder Phrases

Phrases

• A bigger bang for your buck
• At the end of a gun
• Ban the bomb
• 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)
• Barrel load of laughs
• Barrel load of monkeys
• Barrel of laughs
• Big bang
• Buy a bucket of chicken and have a barrel of fun (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Cannon fodder
• Captain Underpants And The Perilous Plot Of Professor Poopypants (Dav Pilkey book)
• Chew a gun
• Crazy Gun Barney (Nickname of Barney Fife (Don Knotts))
• Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Peter Sellers movie)
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• Father of The Atomic Bomb (Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer)
• Gang bang
• Get a bang out of something
• Give it the gun
• Go with a bang
• Gun down
• Gunpowder treason and plot (line from nursery rhyme)
• Happiness Is A Warm Gun (The Beatles song)
• Have gun, will travel (A catchphrase from TV series)
• High treason
• Hold a gun to his head
• Hold it up to the light, not a stain and shining light (Surf Washing Powder advertising slogan)
• If it's got to be clean, it's got to be Tide (Tide Washing Powder advertising slogan)
• Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
• Jump the gun
• Keep your powder dry
• Leave the gun, take the cannoli (line from The Godfather)
• Letter bomb
• Like a pig from a gun
• Like shooting fish in a barrel
• Lock stock and barrel
• Looks like a bomb has hit it
• Loose cannon
• Lose the plot
• Lost the plot
• Machine Gun Kelly (Nickname of George Kelly)
• More bang for your buck
• Mother Superior jumped the gun (Beatles song lyric)
• Not with a bang but a whimper (from a poem by Eliot)
• Not with a bang but with a whimper
• Omo adds brightness to whiteness (Omo washing powder advertising slogan)
• Over a barrel
• Pearline keeps white things white and bright women bright (Pearline washing powder advertising slogan)
• Pork barrel politics
• Pork barrel spending
• Powder room
• Powder your nose
• Put a gun to your head
• Put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry
• Scraping the bottom of the barrel
• See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
• Slap bang in the middle
• Smoking gun
• Son of a gun
• Take a powder
• The Cajun Cannon (Nickname of Bobby Hebert)
• 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)
• The Polish Cannon (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
• The plot thickens
• Tide's in, dirt's out (Tide Washing Powder advertising slogan)
• Under the gun
• Weather bomb (a rapidly deepening low pressure area causing severe storms)