Jaw Phrases

Phrases

• A bone to pick
• A marvellous bird is the pelican, its beak holds more than its belly can
• All mouth and trousers
• As dry as a bone
• Bad taste in the mouth
• Bone dry
• Bone head
• Bone idle
• Bone of contention
• Bone to pick with you
• Bone up on
• Bone weary
• Bone yard
• Born with a silver spoon in his mouth
• Bust your chops
• Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth
• By the hairs on my chinny chin chin, I'll blow your house down
• Cheek by jowl
• Chilled to the bone
• Chin wag
• Close to the bone
• Cut prices to the bone
• Diarrhoea of the jawbone
• Do you kiss your mother with that mouth
• Doesn't have a jealous bone in his body
• Dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang for telephone)
• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
• Down in the mouth
• Foam at the mouth
• Foot in mouth
• Garbage mouth
• Glass chin
• Glass jaw
• Hand to mouth
• Have a bone to pick
• Jaw dropping
• Just when you thought it was safe to go back in water (Jaws II advertising tagline)
• Keep your chin up
• Keep your mouth shut
• Lantern jawed
• Lead with the chin
• Leaves a bad taste in the mouth
• Loud mouth

• M&Ms melt in your mouth, not in your hand (M&Ms chocolate advertising slogan)
• Made to make your mouth water (Opal Fruits advertising slogan)
• Melts in the mouth
• Mouth breather
• Mouth off
• Mouth to mouth
• Nasty taste in the mouth
• Never look a gift horse in the mouth
• Nil by mouth
• North and south (Cockney rhyming slang for mouth)
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• Open your big mouth
• Out of the jaws of death
• Potty mouth
• Potty mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• Put words into someone's mouth
• Put your foot in your mouth
• Put your head into the lion's mouth
• Put your money where your mouth is
• Run off at the mouth
• Shoot your mouth off
• Skin and bone
• Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
• Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat
• Stick your chin out
• Straight from the horse's mouth
• Take it on the chin
• Take the bread out of someone's mouth
• Take the words out of my mouth
• Telling bone
• The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand (M&M advertising slogan)
• This time it's personal (Jaws The Revenge advertising tagline)
• Toilet mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• Turn to ashes in your mouth
• Wash your mouth out with soap and water
• Watch my chops
• Watch your mouth
• We're gonna need a bigger boat (Jaws advertising tagline)
• Wet your beak
• Word of mouth
• Work one's fingers to the bone
• You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth, It Must Have Been Whilst You Were Kissing Me (Meatloaf song)
• You're going to need a bigger boat (Jaws)