Hang Phrases

Phrases

• A Murder Is Announced (Agatha Christie book)
• And thereby hangs a tale
• As busy as a one armed paper hanger
• At the end of your rope
• Bad paper
• Blue Velvet (David Lynch movie)
• Blue murder
• By hook or by crook
• Captain Hook (Nickname of baseball manager George Anderson)
• Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
• Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky book)
• Cruel and unusual punishment
• Dangle the carrot
• Don't give a hang
• Gallows humour

• Get away with murder
• Get the hang of it
• Give a dog a bad name and hang him
• Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself
• Give him enough rope and he'll hang himself
• Glutton for punishment
• Hang a left
• Hang a right
• Hang about
• Hang around with
• Hang back
• Hang by the neck until dead
• Hang fire
• Hang him out to dry
• Hang in there

• Hang loose
• Hang on
• Hang on a minute
• Hang on by your fingertips
• Hang on every word
• Hang on for dear life
• Hang on like grim death
• Hang on to your shirt tails
• Hang out
• Hang out with
• Hang out your shingle
• Hang ten
• Hang time
• Hang tough
• Hang up your boots

• Hang up your hat
• Hang up your sword
• Hang your hat on
• Hang your head
• Hanging by a thread
• Hanging chad
• Hanging judge
• Hanging on the telephone
• Hanging over your head
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• Hook line and sinker
• Hook up with
• How To Murder Your Wife (Jack Lemmon movie)
• How's it hanging?
• Hung Up (Madonna song)

• Hung like a donkey
• Hung like a horse
• Hung out to dry
• Hung over
• Hung up on
• I could murder a cup of tea
• I could murder a curry
• It sounds alright on paper
• Jump rope
• Left Hook (Nickname of Jeff Lacy)
• Left hanging
• Let it all hang out
• Let off the hook
• Let the punishment fit the crime
• Light the blue touch paper and retire

• Low hanging fruit
• Meat is murder
• Merrill-Lynch is Bullish on America (Merrill Lynch advertising slogan)
• Mete out punishment
• Money for old rope
• Mulholland Drive (David Lynch movie)
• Murder On The Dance Floor (Sophie Ellis-Bexter song)
• Murder will out
• Not worth the paper it's printed on
• Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about (The Beatles song lyric)
• Off the hook
• On paper
• One may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
• Paper Doll (Mills Brothers song)
• Paper millionaire

• Paper over the cracks
• Paper profit
• Paper the house
• Paper thin
• Paper tiger
• Paper trail
• Put pen to paper
• Ring off the hook
• Rope in
• Scream bloody murder
• Scream blue murder
• Short shrift
• Sling beer
• Sling hash
• Sling your hook

• Sucker for punishment
• The Elephant Man (John Hurt / Anthony Hopkins / David Lynch movie)
• The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (tourist attraction in Iraq)
• The Indian rope trick
• Thereby hangs a tale
• Toxic paper
• Until the last dog is hung
• Well hung

Related

• Don't give a hang
• Get the hang of it
• Give a dog a bad name and hang him
• Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself
• Give him enough rope and he'll hang himself
• Hang a left
• Hang a right
• Hang about
• Hang around with
• Hang back
• Hang by the neck until dead
• Hang fire
• Hang him out to dry
• Hang in there
• Hang loose
• Hang on
• Hang on a minute
• Hang on by your fingertips
• Hang on every word
• Hang on for dear life
• Hang on like grim death
• Hang on to your shirt tails
• Hang out
• Hang out with
• Hang out your shingle
• Hang ten
• Hang time
• Hang tough
• Hang up your boots
• Hang up your hat
• Hang up your sword
• Hang your hat on
• Hang your head
• Let it all hang out