Phrase thesaurus
Iron Phrases
164 phrases and expressions related to "iron".
Phrases
- A Hard Day's Night (Beatles song and movie)
- A good man is hard to find
- A hard man is good to find
- As hard as a rock
- As hard as iron
- As hard as nails
- As smooth as a baby's bottom
- As smooth as silk
- Babe magnet
- Be hard put to
- Between a rock and a hard place
- Big Smooth (Nickname of basketball player Charlie Villanueva)
- Blow hard
- British Steel, British mettle (British Steel advertising slogan)
- Cast iron alibi
- Cast iron guarantee
- Chick magnet
- Clap him in irons
- Come down hard on
- Creamy, smooth, refreshing (Calders Cream Ale advertising slogan)
- Death metal
- Die hard
- Do hard time (Spend time in a high security prison)
- Do it the hard way
- Do the hard yards (Put in the hard work necessary for success)
- Dr. Iron Fist (Nickname of Vitali Klitschko)
- Drive a hard bargain
- Fall on hard times
- Fanny magnet
- Fist of Steel (Nickname of boxer Chevelle Hallback)
- Flatten the pyramid
- Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick movie)
- Go hard
- Go hard or go home
- Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan song)
- Hard act to follow
- Hard and fast
- Hard aport
- Hard astarboard
- Hard at it
- Hard case
- Hard cases make bad law
- Hard cash
- Hard cheddar
- Hard cheese
- Hard copy
- Hard done by
- Hard drinker
- Hard evidence
- Hard facts
- Hard feelings
- Hard hearted
- Hard hitting
- Hard knocks
- Hard labour
- Hard lines
- Hard liquor
- Hard luck
- Hard nosed
- Hard of hearing
- Hard on
- Hard on the heels of
- Hard pressed
- Hard put to it
- Hard row to hoe
- Hard shell
- Hard stuff
- Hard times
- Hard to come by
- Hard to pin down
- Hard to place
- Hard to swallow
- Hard to take
- Hard up
- Hard words
- Hard work never did anyone any harm
- Hard work never killed anyone
- Hard, cold cash
- Have many irons in the fire
- Heavy metal
- Hold hard
- Hurry hard
- Iron Man (Nickname of John Terry)
- Iron Mike (Nickname of Mike Tyson)
- Iron fist in velvet glove
- Iron hoof (Cockney rhyming slang for poof)
- Iron out
- Iron out the wrinkles
- It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been working like a dog (Beatles song lyric)
- It's how the smooth take the rough (Range Rover advertising slogan)
- Made in Scotland from girders (Irn Bru advertising slogan)
- Metal fatigue
- My wings are a shield of steel (A catchphrase from Batfink cartoon)
- Nerves of steel
- No hard feelings
- No hard feelings (An injunction to forgive and forget following a dispute)
- Old habits die hard
- Play hard to get
- Pump iron
- Put in the hard yards
- Put the hard word on
- Put the pedal to the metal
- Rode hard and put away wet
- Rule with a rod of iron
- Rule with an iron fist
- Rust bucket
- Saturday's child works hard for a living
- School of hard knocks
- Scrap Iron (Nickname of Phil Garner)
- Silky smooth
- Smooth move
- Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
- Smooth sailing
- Smooth talk
- Steel Magnolia (Nickname of Rosalynn Carter)
- Steel yourself
- Strike while the iron is hot
- Take a cold hard look
- Take a hard line
- Take the rough with the smooth
- Thai - smooth as silk (Thai Airways International advertising slogan)
- That Friday feeling (anticipation of the weekend after a hard working week)
- The Big Smooth (Nickname of Sam Perkins)
- The Boy David (Nickname of English politician David Steel)
- The French Lieutenant's Woman (Jeremy Irons / Meryl Streep movie)
- The Iron Chancellor (Nickname of Otto Von Bismark)
- The Iron Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist states)
- The Iron Duke (Nickname of Arthur Duke of Wellington)
- The Iron Horse (Nickname of Lou Gehrig)
- The Iron Lady (Nickname of Margaret Thatcher)
- The Iron Man (Nickname of Cal Ripken Jr.)
- The Man in the Iron Mask
- The Steel City (Nickname of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania)
- The Steel City (Nickname of Sheffield England)
- The Steel Heart Of The Republic (Nickname of Ostrava Czech Republic)
- The course of true love never did run smooth
- The road isn't built that can make it breathe hard! (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
- This Hard Land (Bruce Springsteen song)
- Too many irons in the fire
- Two irons in the fire
- Work hard. Fly right (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
- Working hard or hardly working?
Related
- As hard as iron
- Cast iron alibi
- Cast iron guarantee
- Dr. Iron Fist (Nickname of Vitali Klitschko)
- Iron Man (Nickname of John Terry)
- Iron Mike (Nickname of Mike Tyson)
- Iron fist in velvet glove
- Iron hoof (Cockney rhyming slang for poof)
- Iron out
- Iron out the wrinkles
- Pump iron
- Rule with a rod of iron
- Rule with an iron fist
- Scrap Iron (Nickname of Phil Garner)
- Strike while the iron is hot
- The Iron Chancellor (Nickname of Otto Von Bismark)
- The Iron Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist states)
- The Iron Duke (Nickname of Arthur Duke of Wellington)
- The Iron Horse (Nickname of Lou Gehrig)
- The Iron Lady (Nickname of Margaret Thatcher)
- The Iron Man (Nickname of Cal Ripken Jr.)
- The Man in the Iron Mask