Hip Phrases

Phrases

• A bone to pick
• A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips
• Alpha pup (term for the coolest kid on the block)
• As brown as a berry
• As cool as a cucumber
• As dry as a bone
• Bart the Cool (Nickname of American football player Bart Starr)
• Body popping
• Bone dry
• Bone head
• Bone idle
• Bone of contention
• Bone to pick with you
• Bone up on
• Bone weary
• Bone yard
• Bunny hop
• Bust a move (dance in a stylish way)
• Can you dig it?
• Chilled to the bone
• Close to the bone
• Cool Britannia
• Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman movie)
• Cool Joe (Nickname of baseball player Joe Montana)
• Cool Papa (Nickname of baseball player James Bell)
• Cool as a mountain stream (Consulate Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Cool beans
• Cool cat
• Cool down
• Cool million
• Cool off
• Cool out
• Cool your heels
• Cool, calm and collected
• Cool, fresh, consulate (Consulate Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Cut prices to the bone
• Doesn't have a jealous bone in his body
• Dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang for telephone)
• Drum n bass
• Elvis the Pelvis (Nickname of Elvis Presley)
• Get down and get funky
• Get down with the kids
• Have a bone to pick
• Hip and happening
• Hip hip hooray
• Hip hop
• Hips Don't Lie (Shakira with Wyclef Jean song)
• Hit me on the hip
• Hooray Henry
• Hop it
• Hop off
• Hop to it
• Hop, skip and jump
• In the groove
• Jive talk
• Joe Cool (Nickname of Joe Johnson)
• Johnny B Goode (Chuck Berry song)
• Joined at the hip
• Keep a cool head
• Keep your cool
• Lindy Hop (Nickname of Charles Lindbergh)
• Lose your cool
• Memphis Tennessee (Chuck Berry song)
• Menthol-Fresh, cool, clean, Consulate (Consulate Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• My Ding A Ling (Chuck Berry song)
• No wonder the English have kept cool for 192 years (Gordon's Gin advertising slogan)
• Nuff respect
• Nuff said
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• Play it cool
• Reelin' And Rockin' (Chuck Berry song)
• Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry song)
• Save your breath to cool your porridge
• Shoot from the hip
• Skin and bone
• Strut your funky stuff
• Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry / Beatles song)
• Switched on
• Telling bone
• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Gil Scott-Heron song)
• Too Much Monkey Business (Chuck Berry song)
• Top gear
• Way cool
• What we have here is a failure to communicate (line from Cool Hand Luke)
• Where it's at
• Work one's fingers to the bone
• You Never Can Tell (Chuck Berry song)