Lid Phrases

Phrases

• A feather in your cap
• A few roos loose in the top paddock
• Air cover
• America's Next Top Model
• Blow the lid off
• Blow your cover
• Blow your top
• Break cover
• Cap and trade (A policy tool aimed at protecting the environment)
• Cap in hand
• Cherry top
• Come out on top
• 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
• Cream always rises to the top
• Data cap
• Deep Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Doff one's cap
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Feather in your cap
• Flip your lid
• For top laps (The Economist advertising slogan)
• From the top
• From top to toe
• Go cap in hand
• Go over the top
• Go to the top of the class
• If the cap fits, wear it
• In tip top condition
• It's lonely at the top
• It's tough at the top
• Kangaroos in your top paddock
• Keep a lid on it
• Keep on top of
• Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars (A catchphrase from Casey Kasem In America's Top 40)
• Knock the cover off the ball (A baseball expression meaning succeed beyond expectation)
• Lift the lid off
• Major league (A baseball expression meaning at the top rank)
• Never judge a book by its cover
• Off the top of my head
• On top of the world
• Out of the top drawer
• Over the legal limit
• Over the limit
• Over the top
• Plug and play
• Plug the gap
• Pull the plug
• Put on your thinking cap
• Raise the limit
• Rally cap (A baseball expression denoting a cap is a worn inside out or backwards)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Run for cover
• Set your cap at
• Shout at the top of one's lungs
• Sleep like a top
• Take it from the top
• The Bandstand Cover Girl (Nickname of Carol Scaldeferri)
• The Top Ten
• The elevator doesn't go to the top floor
• The sky's the limit
• The top banana in the West (Hughes Air West advertising slogan)
• The top of the programme
• The view from the top
• Thin on top
• To cap it all
• Tonight's top ten list (A catchphrase from David Letterman In The Late Show)
• Top Hat (Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers movie)
• Top and tail
• Top banana
• Top breeders recommend it (Pedigree Chum Dog food advertising slogan)
• Top dog
• Top dollar
• Top down
• Top drawer
• Top flight
• Top gear
• Top hole
• Top it off
• Top marks
• Top notch
• Top o' the morning
• Top of the hour
• Top of the pops
• Top of the range
• Top of the shop (Bingo call for number ninety)
• Top of the tree
• Top out at
• Top people take the Times (The Times advertising slogan)
• Top priority
• Top quality
• Top seed
• Top shelf magazine
• Top slicing
• Top table
• Top the bill
• Top tips
• Under cover of darkness
• Under the big top
• You can't tell a book by looking at its cover
• You can't top the copper top (Duracell Batteries advertising slogan)