Lacquer Phrases

Phrases

• A lick of paint
• Air cover
• All fur coat and no knickers
• As boring as watching paint dry
• Baby brain (forgetfulness caused by lack of sleep when caring for a newborn)
• Blow your cover
• Break cover
• Brilliant cleaning starts with Finish (Finish Detergent advertising slogan)
• Coat of many colours
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Cover story
• Cover the waterfront
• Cover to cover
• Cover your back
• Cover your bases
• Cover your tracks
• Cover yourself with glory
• Covers the earth (Sherwin Williams paint advertising slogan)
• Cut your coat to suit your cloth
• Deep Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Do I have to paint you a picture?
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Get your coat
• Get your coat, you've pulled
• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good (Wall Street)

• High visibility jacket (reflective coat worn to be easily seen)
• I've started so I'll finish (A catchphrase from Mastermind)
• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
• Knock the cover off the ball (A baseball expression meaning succeed beyond expectation)
• Lack nothing
• Little gentleman in the velvet coat
• Man In The Long Black Coat (Bob Dylan song)
• Never judge a book by its cover
• Nice guys finish last
• Paint It Black (Rolling Stones song)
• Paint Your Wagon (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Paint the town red
• Paint yourself into a corner
• Photo finish
• Run for cover
• The Bandstand Cover Girl (Nickname of Carol Scaldeferri)
• To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
• Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest
• Turn coat
• Under cover of darkness
• War paint
• Weasel and Stoat (Cockney rhyming slang for coat)
• When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob Dylan song)
• You can't tell a book by looking at its cover