Jail Phrases

Phrases

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A bit of a porridge
• A little bird told me
• A marvellous bird is the pelican, its beak holds more than its belly can
• Above the law
• Against the law
• And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles song)
• As black as Newgate's knocker
• As free as a bird
• At her majesty's pleasure
• Bang to rights
• Banged up
• Bean Burrito (Nickname of basketball player Nick Young)
• Behind bars
• Big Bird (Nickname of Joel Garner - Barbados and West Indies cricketer)
• Big house
• Bird Man (Nickname of basketball player Chris Andersen)
• Bird brained
• Bird dog
• Bird of passage
• Bird's eye view
• Birdman Of Alcatraz (Burt Lancaster movie)
• Brush with the law
• Cause a stir
• Cell division (biology)
• Central heating for kids (Ready Brek porridge advertising slogan)
• Clap him in irons
• Click it or ticket (United States seat belt law advertising slogan)
• Cold Mountain (Jude Law / Renee Zellweger / Nicole Kidman movie)
• Complex sentence (a sentence containing subordinate clauses)
• Cool your heels
• Cooler heads will prevail
• Costa Del Crime
• Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky book)
• Crime Dog (Nickname of baseball player Fred McGriff)
• Crime against nature
• Crime doesn't pay
• Crime of passion
• Detained at Her Majesty's pleasure
• Do bird
• Do hard time (Spend time in a high security prison)
• Don't have nightmares (A catchphrase from Nick Ross)
• Driving Miss Daisy (Jessica Tandy / Morgan Freeman movie)
• Drunk tank
• Early bird
• Eat like a bird
• Fall foul of the law
• Flip someone the bird
• Flip the bird
• Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash song)
• Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
• Free Nelson Mandela
• Game bird
• Get busy living, or get busy dying (line from the movie The Shawshank Redemption)
• Get out of jail free
• Get out of jail free card (a means of avoiding justice - from the eponymous card in the Monopoly boardgame)
• Go directly to jail, do not pass go
• Go straight
• Go to law
• Hard cases make bad law
• Have a bird
• His word is law
• I arrest you in the name of the law
• I fought the law and the law won
• If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
• In good nick
• In the eyes of the law
• In the nick of time
• In the slammer
• Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's Superman? (A catchphrase from Superman)
• It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it (A catchphrase from Nick Stone In Tightrope)
• It's the early bird that gets the worm
• Jail bait
• Jail bird
• Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley song)
• Jet lag

• Jonnies out of jail
• Keep behind bars
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Law abiding
• Law and order
• Law unto oneself
• Lay the law down
• Let the punishment fit the crime
• Lock him up and throw away the key
• Marriage isn't a word it's a sentence
• Nick at Night (Nickname of Nick Van Exel)
• Nick is for kids (Nickelodeon TV channel advertising slogan)
• Nick the Quick (Nickname of Nick Van Exel)
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Nose for crime
• Old lag
• On death row
• One law for the rich and another for the poor
• Outside the law
• Partners in crime
• Pass sentence
• Pay your debt to society
• Possession is nine tenths of the law
• Prison works
• Rare bird
• Robben Island - South Africa
• Save your breath to cool your porridge
• Send down
• Shot while trying to escape
• Sing like a bird
• Social jet lag
• Spandau Ballet
• Stir crazy
• Stir the pot
• Stir up a hornet's nest
• Stir up an ant's nest
• Stir up trouble
• Take a bite out of crime
• Take a bite out of crime! (National Crime Prevention Council advertising slogan)
• Take no prisoners
• Take someone to law
• Take the law into your own hands
• That bird has flown
• The Basketball Jesus (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Bird Man of Alcatraz (Nickname of Robert Stroud)
• The Biscuit (Nickname of John Cage (Peter MacNicol))
• The Flying Squad (Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard)
• The Great Bird of the Galaxy (Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry)
• The Great Escape (Steve McQueen movie)
• The Hick from French Lick (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Napoleon of Crime (Nickname of Professor Moriarty)
• The Prisoner's Song (Vernon Dalhart song)
• The Shadow knows (A catchphrase from the crime fighting vigilante)
• The Shawshank Redemption (Tim Robbins / Morgan Freeman movie)
• The bird has flown
• The early bird catches the worm
• The house of many doors
• The law is an ass
• The law of averages
• The law of diminishing returns
• The law of the jungle
• The law of the land
• The letter of the law
• The long arm of the law
• The perfect crime
• There ought to be a law
• There's no law against it
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• Three strikes and you are out
• Throw away the key
• Tobacco baron
• Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime (Tony Blair political slogan)
• Under lock and key
• Walk free
• Who rattled your cage?
• Zero tolerance