Lick Phrases

Phrases

• A lick of paint
• A stick to beat you with
• Acid tongue
• Admit defeat
• Beat It (Michael (Jackson song)
• Beat a hasty retreat
• Beat a path to your door
• Beat about the bush
• Beat hell out of
• Beat hollow
• Beat it!
• Beat someone black and blue
• Beat swords into ploughshares
• Beat the air
• Beat the band
• Beat the bushes
• Beat the clock
• Beat the living crap out of
• Beat the living daylights out of
• Beat the living snot out of
• Beat the pants off
• Beat the rap
• Beat the retreat
• Beat the rush
• Beat the snot out of
• Beat the stuffing out of
• Beat to a pulp
• Beat up
• Beat you to it
• Beat your brains out
• Beat your meat
• Behind the beat
• Bite your tongue
• Brow beat
• Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door
• Cat got your tongue?
• Come out in the wash
• Crushing defeat
• Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
• Finger-lickin' good (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)

• Hold your tongue
• If you can't beat em, join em
• It takes a licking and keeps on ticking (Timex Corporation advertising slogan)
• It won't wash
• Keep a civil tongue in your head
• Lap it up
• Lick and a promise
• Lick into shape
• Lick someone's boots
• Lick your lips
• Lick your wounds
• Lose your tongue
• Mother tongue
• My heart missed a beat
• Off beat
• On the beat
• On the tip of my tongue
• Roll off the tongue
• Sharp tongue
• Slip of the tongue
• Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
• Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat
• The Hick from French Lick (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Mersey beat
• The beat goes on
• The bobby on the beat
• To beat the band
• Tongue and groove
• Tongue in cheek
• Tongue lashing
• Tongue tied
• Tongue twister
• Too posh to wash
• Walking to the beat of a different drummer
• Wash and go
• Wash out
• Wash your dirty linen in public
• Wash your hands of it
• Wash your mouth out with soap and water
• White man speak with forked tongue
• Window licker