Jive Phrases

Phrases

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• As hard as a rock
• As solid as a rock
• At first hand
• Ayers Rock (tourist attraction in Australia)
• Between a rock and a hard place
• Bite your hand off
• Biting the hand that feeds IT (The Register advertising slogan)
• Bound hand and foot
• Business at hand
• Bust a move (dance in a stylish way)
• Cap in hand
• Cash in hand
• Caught with your hand in the cookie jar
• Caught with your hand in the till
• Condemned out of hand
• Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman movie)
• Country rock
• Crocodile Rock (Elton John song)
• Dab hand at
• Dance With The One That Brought You (Shania Twain song)
• Dance around the problem
• Dance attendance on
• Dance like nobody's watching
• Dance of death
• Dance on someone's grave
• Dance the night away
• Dance to someone's tune
• Dance your socks off
• Don't bite the hand that feeds you
• Don't rock the boat
• Eat out of someone's hand
• Extend the hand of friendship
• Fold your hand
• Force his hand
• Free hand
• Get out of hand
• Get the upper hand
• Give a hand
• Glam rock
• Go cap in hand
• Got to hand it to you
• Hand a line
• Hand in glove
• Hand in hand
• Hand in your notice
• Hand it on a plate
• Hand it over
• Hand job
• Hand me down
• Hand me downs
• Hand over
• Hand over fist
• Hand picked
• Hand to mouth
• Hand's turn
• Hat in hand
• Have a hand in
• Have it in hand
• Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
• Heavy Lunch (Nickname of American football player Norman Hand)
• Heavy rock
• Helping hand
• Hit rock bottom
• I Wanna Rock And Roll All Night (Kiss song)
• I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles song)
• I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (The Beatles song)
• In the palm of your hand
• It's Only Rock And Roll, But I Like It (Rolling Stones song)
• Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley song)

• Jive talk
• Jive talkin' (Bee Gees song)
• Just Dance (Lady Gaga (with Colby O'Donis song)
• Keep your hand in
• Know like the back of your hand
• Lead a merry dance
• Lend a hand on the land (WWII slogan)
• Lend a helping hand
• Let's Dance (David Bowie song)
• Let's face the music and dance
• Let's rock (A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With Children)
• Like a rock (Bob Seeger song title and Chevrolet Trucks advertising slogan)
• M&Ms melt in your mouth, not in your hand (M&Ms chocolate advertising slogan)
• Make a song and dance about
• Murder On The Dance Floor (Sophie Ellis-Bexter song)
• Off hand
• On the one hand
• On the other hand
• One hand tied behind your back
• One hand washes the other
• One two three o'clock four o'clock rock
• Party Like a Rock Star (Shop Boyz song)
• Party Rock Anthem (LMFAO with Lauren Bennett and GoonRock song)
• Prepare to rock
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Put your hand in your pocket
• Put your hand to the plough
• Raise your hand if you're sure (Sure advertising slogan)
• Right hand man
• Rock And Roll Dreams Come True (Meatloaf song)
• Rock Around The Clock (Bill Haley song)
• Rock With The Caveman (Tommy Steele song)
• Rock Your Baby (George McCrae song)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rock and boulder (Cockney rhyming slang for shoulder)
• Rock and roll
• Rock bottom
• Rock god
• Rock of ages
• Rock on
• Rock solid
• Rock the vote
• Rock your world
• Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
• Save The Last Dance For Me (Ben E King song)
• Save the last dance for me
• See You Late Alligator (Bill Haley song)
• Sex and drugs, and rock and roll
• Shake Rattle And Roll (Bill Haley song)
• Show your hand
• Sleight of hand
• Song and dance
• Song and dance man
• Strengthen your hand
• Take your hand in marriage
• Talk to the hand
• The Dome of the Rock (tourist attraction in Israel)
• The King of Rock 'N' Roll (Nickname of Elvis Presley)
• The Rock (Nickname of Marcel Desailly)
• The answer is at hand
• The hand is quicker than the eye
• The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
• The matter in hand
• The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand (M&M advertising slogan)
• The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing
• Try your hand
• Upper hand
• We Will Rock You (Queen song)
• What we have here is a failure to communicate (line from Cool Hand Luke)
• Whip hand
• You rock!