Leather Phrases

Phrases

• A Case Of Identity (Sherlock Holmes story)
• All fur coat and no knickers
• An open and shut case (a straightforward legal case)
• Are you a Cadbury's Fruit & Nut case? (Cadburys advertising slogan)
• As the case may be
• At full pelt
• Basket case
• Beauty is only skin deep
• Blue Suede Shoes (Elvis Presley song)
• Boots Of Spanish Leather (Bob Dylan song)
• By the skin of your teeth
• Case closed
• Case the joint
• Catch a case
• Comfortable in your skin
• Crack the case
• Doctor, doctor, give me the news, I've got a bad case of loving you (Robert Palmer song lyric)
• Don't make a federal case of it
• Everyone's a Cadbury's Fruit and Nut Case (Cadbury's Fruit and Nut advertising slogan)
• Full pelt
• Get off my case
• Get under your skin
• Give someone skin
• Hard case
• He makes my skin crawl
• He makes my skin creep
• Head case
• Hell for leather
• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception (Groucho Marx line)
• I rest my case
• In any case
• It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
• It's no skin off my nose
• Jump out of your skin
• Just in case
• Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• Mental case
• On a case by case basis
• On the case
• Pick up the gauntlet
• Run the gauntlet
• Save your skin
• Skin alive
• Skin and blister (Cockney rhyming slang for sister)
• Skin and bone
• Skin deep
• Skin in the game
• Skin like peaches and cream
• Skin partner
• Slip on a banana skin
• Soaked to the skin
• Take a bath in the dark tonight and let the water make love to your skin (Lavin Perfumes & Soaps advertising slogan)
• The case in point
• The case may be
• The cobbler always wears the worst shoes
• The cobbler should stick to his last
• The fur began to fly
• The mainspring in a Bulova is made to last 256 years or 146 leather straps - whichever comes first (Bulova Watches advertising slogan)
• The skin you love to touch (Woodbury Soap advertising slogan)
• The sound of leather on willow (sound of the ball on the bat in cricket)
• There's more than one way to skin a cat
• Throw down the gauntlet
• Under the skin
• Worst case scenario