Lion Phrases

Phrases

• A cat may look at a king
• A fine line
• A leopard cannot change its spots
• A nod is as good as a wink to a blind bat (A line from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• A tiger in your tank
• A whole different animal (Frontier Airlines advertising slogan)
• All aboard the Skylark (A line from Noah and Nelly)
• All men are cremated equal (Spike Milligan line)
• Alley cat (slang term for a prostitute)
• Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life (Monty Python's Flying Circus song)
• And now for something completely different (A catchphrase from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• Animal Crackers (Marx Brothers movie)
• Animal Farm (George Orwell book)
• Animal attraction
• Animal instinct
• Animal liberation
• Animal magic
• Animal magnetism
• Animal rights
• As brave as a lion
• As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
• Beard the lion in his den
• Bell the cat
• Big Cat (Nickname of American football player Leon Lett)
• Big Cat (Nickname of baseball player Andres Galarraga)
• Big Cat (Nickname of boxer Cleveland Williams)
• Blessed are the cheese makers (line from Monty Python's Life of Brian)
• Born Free (Virginia McKenna movie)
• Brighton line (Bingo call for number fifty nine)
• Cake or death (line from Eddie Izzard comedy)
• Cat Balou (Jane Fonda movie)
• Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (play by Tennesee Williams and Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Cat and mouse game
• Cat call
• Cat got your tongue?
• Cat has nine lives
• Cat in Hell's chance
• Cat person
• Cat scratch fever
• Cat's Cradle
• Celebrate the Moments of Your Life (General Foods International Coffee advertising slogan)
• Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! (line from the movie 25th Hour)
• Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard (Spike Milligan line)
• Circle Of Life (Elton John song)
• Come down to the line
• Come into line
• Concrete jungle
• Contraceptives should be used on all conceivable occasions (Spike Milligan line)
• Cool cat
• Cross the line
• Curiosity killed the cat
• Dead cat bounce
• Do a line
• Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars (line from the movie Now, Voyager)
• Draw a line in the sand
• Draw the line
• Drop me a line
• Easy tiger
• Eight maids a-milking (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Eight out of ten cats prefer it (Whiskas Cat Food advertising slogan)
• Eleven pipers piping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• End of the line
• Enough to make a cat laugh
• Every time a bell rings, an angel gets it's wings (line from It's A Wonderful Life)
• Eye of the Tiger (Survivor song)
• Fall into line
• Fight like cat and dog
• Five golden rings (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Four calling birds (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Fred Carno's circus
• Front line
• Get busy living, or get busy dying (line from the movie The Shawshank Redemption)
• Getting there is half the fun (Cunard Line advertising slogan)
• Go, and never darken my towels again (Groucho Marx line)
• Got a tiger by the tail
• Hand a line
• He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy (line from the movie Life of Brian)
• Hell cat
• Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle (line from nursery rhyme)
• Hold the line
• Hook line and sinker
• I Walk The Line (Johnny Cash song)
• I can see you standing over a hot stove, but I can't see the stove (Groucho Marx line)
• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception (Groucho Marx line)
• I tawt I taw a puddy cat (A catchphrase from Sylvester the Cat)
• I told you I was ill (Spike Milligan line inscribed on his gravestone)
• I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! (line from the movie Network)
• If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus
• If you change your mind, I'm the first in line (ABBA lyric)
• In like a lion out like a lamb
• In line for
• In the line of duty
• In the line of fire
• Infamy Infamy! They've all got it in for me! (Kenneth Williams line in Carry On Cleo)
• Into the lion's den
• It's a jungle out there
• Jump the line
• Jungle Jim (Nickname of Jim Loscutoff)
• Jungle boogie
• Jungle fever
• Jungle juice
• Keep in line
• King of the jungle
• Kruger National Park (tourist attraction in South Africa)
• Lay it on the line
• Leave the gun, take the cannoli (line from The Godfather)
• Let the cat out of the bag
• Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon (Woody Allen line)
• Like a cat on a hot coals
• Like a cat on a hot tin roof
• Like something the cat dragged in
• Line abreast

• Line astern
• Line is full of misery and lonliness and it's over much too soon (Woody Allen line)
• Line of attack
• Line of least resistance
• Line of sight
• Line of work
• Line your pockets
• Lion's share
• Lions led by donkeys
• Look what the cat dragged in
• Mama always said that life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get (line from the movie Forrest Gump)
• March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
• Media circus
• Mendoza line (A baseball expression denoting a line marking a very poor performance)
• My one regret in life is that I am not someone else (Woody Allen line)
• Next in line to the throne
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• No one expects the Spanish Inquisition (A catchphrase from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• No room to swing a cat
• Nothing else is Arthur's good (Arthur's Cat Food advertising slogan)
• Nudge nudge, wink wink (A line from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• Off line
• On deck (A baseball expression meaning next in line)
• One toe over the line
• Out of line
• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read (Groucho Marx line)
• Paper tiger
• Party animal
• Party line
• Picket line
• Please hold the line
• Political animal
• Purr like a cat
• Put a tiger in Your Tank (Esso advertising slogan)
• Put the cat amongst the pigeons
• Put your head into the lion's mouth
• Roar, Boys, Roar, It tastes like more, What a flavor, Zippity-zow - its grand - and HOW (Grape-Nuts Flakes Cereal advertising slogan)
• Robben Island - South Africa
• Run Forrest, Run! (line from the movie Forrest Gump)
• Scaredy cat
• See which way the cat jumps
• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Shoot someone a line
• Sign on the dotted line
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Smiling like a Cheshire cat
• Starting line up
• Step out of line
• Stop, or my mom will shoot (line from Sylvestor Stallone movie)
• Table Mountain (tourist attraction in South Africa)
• Take a hard line
• Tastes so good cats ask for it by name (Meow Mix Cat food advertising slogan)
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• That cat won't jump
• The Adventure of the Lion's Mane (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Animal (Nickname of Edmundo)
• The Big Cat (Nickname of Jamaal Magloire)
• The Cat (Nickname of Cuttino Mobley)
• The Celtic Tiger
• The Greatest Show on Earth (Barnum & Bailey Circus advertising slogan)
• The Jungle Book (Disney cartoon movie)
• The Kruger National Park (tourist attraction in South Africa)
• The Lion In Winter (Peter O'Toole / Katharine Hepburn movie)
• The Lion King (Disney cartoon movie)
• The Lion of Judah (Nickname of Haile Selassie)
• The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
• The animal kingdom
• The blackboard jungle
• The bottom line
• The bottom line is the bottom line is the bottom line
• The cat sat on the mat
• The cat that swallowed the canary
• The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner (9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan)
• The cat who got the cream
• The cat's meow
• The cat's pyjamas
• The cat's whiskers
• The finishing line
• The law of the jungle
• The lion leaps from strength to strength (Peugeot advertising slogan)
• The lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep (Woody Allen line)
• The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd
• The thin red line
• The valley of the shadow of death (line from the Psalm 23)
• There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream
• There's a tiger in my tank
• There's more than one way to skin a cat
• These go to eleven (line from the movie This Is Spinal Tap)
• This line of business
• This line of country
• Three French hens (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Three line whip
• Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• To infinty and beyond (line from the movie Toy Story)
• Toe the line
• Treading a fine line
• Twelve drummers drumming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Two turtle doves (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Up and down like the Ottoman Empire (line from Monty Python's Life Of Brian)
• Wait in line
• Was there a lion on your egg this morning? (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• We Are the World (USA for Africa song)
• We are going to need considerably bigger buns (line from Calendar Girls)
• Welcome to the Jungle (Guns n Roses song)
• Well, nobody's perfect (line from the movie Some Like It Hot)
• What we have here is a failure to communicate (line from Cool Hand Luke)
• When the cat's away the mice will play
• Who's she, the cat's mother?
• You can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff (Groucho Marx line)
• You can rely on the lion (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• You say you want a revolution (Line from Beatles song)
• You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! (line from the Michael Caine movie The Italian Job)

Related

• As brave as a lion
• Beard the lion in his den
• In like a lion out like a lamb
• Into the lion's den
• Lion's share
• March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
• Put your head into the lion's mouth
• The Adventure of the Lion's Mane (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Lion In Winter (Peter O'Toole / Katharine Hepburn movie)
• The Lion King (Disney cartoon movie)
• The Lion of Judah (Nickname of Haile Selassie)
• The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
• The lion leaps from strength to strength (Peugeot advertising slogan)
• The lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep (Woody Allen line)
• Was there a lion on your egg this morning? (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• You can rely on the lion (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)