Lipstick Phrases

Phrases

• A red rag to a bull
• A stick to beat you with
• Air kiss
• All mouth and trousers
• As red as a beetroot
• Bad taste in the mouth
• Better dead than red
• Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
• Big Red (Nickname of basketball player Arvydas Sabonis)
• Blow a kiss
• Blue collar worker
• Born with a silver spoon in his mouth
• Boy, is my face red (A catchphrase from David Letterman)
• Brick red
• Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth
• Cadmium red
• Cancer stick
• Carrot and stick
• Cut through the red tape
• Do you eat the red ones last? (Smarties advertising slogan)
• Do you kiss your mother with that mouth
• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
• Down in the mouth
• Every kiss begins with Kay (Kay Jewellers advertising slogan)
• Every stick has two ends
• Feel someone's collar
• Fire engine red
• Foam at the mouth
• Foot in mouth
• French kiss
• Garbage mouth
• Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
• Gives you wings (Red Bull advertising slogan)
• Glasgow kiss
• Hand to mouth
• Hit by the stupid stick
• Hot under the collar
• I Wanna Rock And Roll All Night (Kiss song)
• In a cleft stick
• In the red
• It's a red thing (Tizer advertising slogan)
• Keep your mouth shut
• Kiss Me Honey Honey Kiss Me (Shirley Bassey song)
• Kiss Me Thru the Phone (Soulja Boy Tell 'Em song)
• Kiss and make up
• Kiss and tell
• Kiss curls
• Kiss goodbye to
• Kiss it better
• Kiss me Hardy (Admiral Nelson quotation)
• Kiss me quick
• Kiss my ass
• Kiss my butt
• Kiss my grits
• Kiss of death
• Kiss of life
• Kiss off
• Kiss the Blarney Stone
• Kiss the dust
• Lady In Red (Chris de Burgh song)
• Leaves a bad taste in the mouth
• Lipstick on a pig
• Little Red Corvette (Prince song)
• Little Red Rooster (Rolling Stones song)
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Loud mouth
• M&Ms melt in your mouth, not in your hand (M&Ms chocolate advertising slogan)
• Made to make your mouth water (Opal Fruits advertising slogan)
• Makes red blood! (Grape-Nuts advertising slogan)
• Melts in the mouth
• More than you can shake a stick at
• Mouth breather
• Mouth off
• Mouth to mouth
• Nasty taste in the mouth
• Nature, red in tooth and claw
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Never look a gift horse in the mouth
• Nil by mouth
• North and south (Cockney rhyming slang for mouth)
• Old Red Eyes (Nickname of Alice Cooper)
• On red alert

• Open your big mouth
• Paint the town red
• Pillar box red
• Potty mouth
• Potty mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• Put words into someone's mouth
• Put your foot in your mouth
• Put your head into the lion's mouth
• Put your money where your mouth is
• Radio collar
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Red Baron (Nickname of Rick Sutcliffe)
• Red Buttons (Pseudonym of actor Aaron Chwatt)
• Red Dwarf (BBC comedy television series)
• Red Light Curt (Nickname of Curt Schilling)
• Red River (John Wayne / Howard Hawks movie)
• Red Sails In The Sunset (Al Bowlly song)
• Red Square (tourist attraction in Moscow Russia)
• Red alert
• Red and green should never be seen
• Red carpet treatment
• Red herring
• Red letter day
• Red light district
• Red lorry yellow lorry
• Red red wine
• Red sky at night shepherds delight
• Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning
• Red tape
• Ring around the collar (Wisk detergent advertising slogan)
• Roll out the red carpet
• Roses are red, violets are blue
• Run off at the mouth
• Sealed with a loving kiss
• See red
• Send your parcels Red Star and pull out all the stops (Red Star advertising slogan)
• Shit (or short) end of the stick
• Shoot your mouth off
• Short end of the stick
• Simply Red
• Slip the collar
• Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast (A catchphrase from Red Dwarf)
• Speak softly and carry a big stick
• Steal a kiss
• Stick fingers
• Stick in the mud
• Stick it to the man
• Stick to you like glue
• Stick to your guns
• Stick to your knitting
• Stick with me, kid
• Stick your chin out
• Stick your neck out
• Straight from the horse's mouth
• Take the bread out of someone's mouth
• Take the words out of my mouth
• The Adventure of the Red Circle (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Last of The Red Hot Mommas (Nickname of Sophie Tucker)
• The Marcel Marceau of Television (Nickname of Red Skelton)
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Red Baron (Nickname of Baron Manfred von Richtofen)
• The Red Fort (tourist attraction in India)
• The Red Rocket (Nickname of Matt Bonner)
• The cobbler should stick to his last
• The greatest tragedy is indifference (Red Cross advertising slogan)
• The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand (M&M advertising slogan)
• The red carpet
• The red mist
• The shit end of the stick
• The short end of the stick
• The thin red line
• Throw enough dirt and some will stick
• To bring the wolves out - Riding Hood Red (Max Factor Cosmetics advertising slogan)
• Toilet mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• Took the collar (A baseball expression meaning failing to get any hits)
• Turn to ashes in your mouth
• Wash your mouth out with soap and water
• Watch your mouth
• Where's your white stick referee?
• Word of mouth
• You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth, It Must Have Been Whilst You Were Kissing Me (Meatloaf song)
• You can kiss that one goodbye
• Your fragrance Your rules (Hugo Boss Deep Red advertising slogan)