Jab Phrases

Phrases

• A big shot
• Air shot
• As full as a fat lady's sock
• As pleased as Punch
• As proud as Punch
• Bernie, the bolt (A catchphrase from The Golden Shot)
• Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
• Big Shot Becky (Nickname of basketball player Becky Hammon)
• Big Shot Bob (Nickname of basketball player Robert Horry)
• Big shot
• Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni movie)
• Blow a fuse
• Blow a gasket
• Blow a kiss
• Blow a raspberry (Cockney rhyming slang for fart)
• Blow away the cobwebs
• Blow by blow account
• Blow chunks
• Blow great guns
• Blow hard
• Blow hot and cold
• Blow in
• Blow it out your arse
• Blow it out your ear
• Blow job
• Blow my skirt up
• Blow off
• Blow off steam
• Blow off the stage
• Blow out of the water
• Blow smoke up your ass
• Blow some my way (Chesterfield Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Blow someone away
• Blow the gaff
• Blow the lid off
• Blow the whistle
• Blow through
• Blow to smithereens
• Blow up
• Blow winds, and crack your cheeks
• Blow with the wind
• Blow your brains out
• Blow your cover
• Blow your mind
• Blow your nose
• Blow your own horn
• Blow your own trumpet
• Blow your stack
• Blow your top
• Blow your wad
• Body blow
• Booster shot
• By the hairs on my chinny chin chin, I'll blow your house down
• Capital injection
• Cheap shot
• Cushion the blow
• Get shot of
• Get the needle
• Give it your best shot
• Glancing blow
• Hampton (Cockney rhyming slang for prick)

• Have a shot at
• Have a stab at
• He shot through like a Bondi tram
• Hot shot
• I Shot The Sheriff (Eric Clapton song)
• In Flanders fields the poppies blow (from a poem by McCrae)
• It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
• It will blow over
• Joe Blow
• Just put your lips together and blow (To Have And Have Not)
• Like a shot
• Like looking for a needle in a haystack
• Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Sure Shot (Nickname of Annie Oakley)
• Long shot
• Low blow
• Mail shot
• Mr. Big Shot (Nickname of Chauncey Billups)
• Not by a long shot
• On the prod
• Pack a punch
• Pack more punch
• Parting shot
• Perfect shot
• Pig in a poke
• Pinch, punch, first of the month
• Poke fun
• Prick up your ears
• Prick your bubble
• Punch and Judy
• Punch the air
• Punch your lights out
• Punch your ticket
• Put a sock in it
• Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
• Shot across the bows
• Shot in the arm
• Shot in the dark
• Shot to hell
• Shot while trying to escape
• Sock it to me (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
• Sock puppet marketing
• Soften the blow
• Stab in the back
• Stab in the dark
• Sucker punch
• Take a pot shot at
• Take a stab at
• Take cuts at someone (A baseball expression meaning taking a verbal swing or striking a blow at a reputation)
• That's the way to do it (A catchphrase from Punch And Judy)
• The Hoosier Hot Shot (Nickname of humourist Herb Shriner)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (James Stewart / John Wayne movie)
• The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• The cereal that's shot from guns! (Quaker Puffed Wheat advertising slogan)
• The money shot
• The shot heard around the world
• Through the eye of a needle
• Visa's Delta blow to cheques (Visa Delta Debit Card advertising slogan)
• Well blow me down
• You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! (line from the Michael Caine movie The Italian Job)
• You'll get shot