Horn Phrases

Phrases

• 99.44% pure (Ivory Soap advertising slogan)
• Another nail in the coffin
• Blow your own horn
• Blow your own trumpet
• Cash on the nail
• Coffin nail
• Draw your horns in
• Ebony and ivory
• Fight tooth and nail
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost (line from nursery rhyme)
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
• Grab life by the horns (Dodge Motors advertising slogan)
• Hit the nail on the head
• Horn in on
• It floats! (Ivory Soap advertising slogan)
• Ivory tower
• Jimmy Horner (Cockney rhyming slang for corner)
• Like trying to nail jello to a wall
• Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Jack Horner sat in a corner (line from nursery rhyme)
• Lock horns with
• Nail a lie
• Nail down
• Nail your colours to the mast
• On the horn
• On the horns of a dilemma
• On the nail
• Pay on the nail
• Pull your horns in
• Siren voices
• Take the bull by the horns
• The horns of a dilemma
• Toot your own horn
• Tooth and nail
• When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail