Jerk Phrases

Phrases

• A fool and his money are soon parted
• A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client
• Act the fool
• April fool
• Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt
• Busy old fool, unruly sun (from a poem by John Donne)
• Caught with your hand in the cookie jar
• Clerks and jerks
• Cookie jar accounting
• Crazy fool (A catchphrase from The A-Team)
• Don't yank my chain
• Fool around
• Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me
• Fool's errand
• Fool's gold (a brassy yellow mineral that the inexperienced prospector may mistake for gold)
• Fool's paradise
• I pity the fool (A catchphrase from The A-Team)
• Idiot Wind (Bob Dylan song)
• Idiot board
• Idiot box
• Idiot proof
• If your friendly neighborhood grocer doesn't have a jar knock something off a shelf on the way out (Dilly Beans advertising slogan)
• It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it (Maurice Switzer quotation)
• It isn't nice to fool mother nature
• Jam jar (Cockney rhyming slang for car)
• Jerk around
• Jerk off
• Jerkwater town
• Jog someone's elbow
• Jog your memory
• Knee jerk reaction
• Leg pull
• Make a complete fool of yourself
• Make a fool of yourself
• More fool you
• Nobody's fool
• On the pull

• Play the fool
• Played for a fool
• Pull a boner
• Pull a face
• Pull a fast one
• Pull a sickie
• Pull all the stops out
• Pull it off
• Pull rank
• Pull someone up short
• Pull strings
• Pull the pin
• Pull the plug
• Pull the rabbit out of the hat
• Pull the rug from under your feet
• Pull the trigger
• Pull the wool over someone's eyes
• Pull through
• Pull together
• Pull your chestnuts out of the fire
• Pull your finger out
• Pull your hair out
• Pull your head in
• Pull your horns in
• Pull your punches
• Pull your socks up
• Pull your weight
• Pull yourself together
• Pull yourself up by your bootstraps
• Send your parcels Red Star and pull out all the stops (Red Star advertising slogan)
• Shut up, fool. (A catchphrase from The A-Team)
• Tear jerker
• The Fool On The Hill (The Beatles song)
• The Wisest Fool In Christendom (Nickname of King James I)
• There's no fool like an old fool
• Village idiot
• Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door (Beatles song lyric)