Irony Phrases

Phrases

• Air quotes
• As clear as mud
• As exciting as watching grass grow
• As hard as iron
• Blue humour
• Cast iron alibi
• Cast iron guarantee
• Cheap at half the price
• Dark humour
• Dr. Iron Fist (Nickname of Vitali Klitschko)
• Drummed out of the Mafia for cruelty
• Flattery will get you everywhere
• Gallows humour
• Humour me
• I told you I was ill (Spike Milligan line inscribed on his gravestone)
• 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
• Is the Pope Polish?
• Locker room humour
• No good deed goes unpunished
• One of life's little ironies
• Pump iron
• Rule with a rod of iron
• Rule with an iron fist
• Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit
• Scrap Iron (Nickname of Phil Garner)
• Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
• Strike while the iron is hot
• Thanks for nothing
• 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 light at the end of the tunnel may just be a train coming the other way
• Toilet humour
• Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest
• Too much of a good thing is wonderful
• Why don't you say what you really think?
• You're all heart