Lingerie Phrases

Phrases

• A slip of a thing
• A slip of the pen
• All fur coat and no knickers
• Asbestos drawers
• Asbestos knickers
• Bit of skirt
• Blow my skirt up
• Bra burner
• Burn your bra
• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
• Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? (Warner's Body Bra advertising slogan)
• Don't get your knickers in a knot
• Don't get your knickers in a twist
• Droopy drawers (Bingo call for number forty four)
• Drop your drawers
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Freudian slip
• Get a shift on
• Give someone the slip
• Give the slip
• Graveyard shift
• I dreamed I stopped traffic in my Maidenform bra (Maidenform advertising slogan)
• I dreamed I went shopping in my Maidenform bra (Maidenform advertising slogan)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Let it slip through your fingers
• Let something slip

• Next to myself, I like BVD best (BVD Underwear advertising slogan)
• Night shift
• Nip slip (the inadvertent exposure of a woman's nipple)
• Not exactly blowing my skirt up
• Over the shoulder boulder holder (jokey term for bra)
• Paradigm shift
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Shift gears
• Shift into high gear
• Shift your arse
• Skirt chaser
• Slip and slide
• Slip of the tongue
• Slip on a banana skin
• Slip the collar
• Slip up
• Slip, Slidin' Away (Paul Simon song)
• Slip, sliding away
• There's many a slip twixt cup and lip
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Time shift
• Training bra
• Triumph has the bra for the way you are (Triumph Lingerie advertising slogan)
• Up and down like a whore's drawers
• Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town, upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown (line from nursery rhyme)
• Winter drawers on (old British euphemistic joke)
• Witches knickers