Metal Phrases

Phrases

• A pot of gold
• Accept a wooden nickel
• Acid test
• After The Gold Rush (Neil Young song)
• All roads lead to Rome
• All that glisters is not gold
• As bold as brass
• As good as gold
• As hard as iron
• As hard as nails
• As heavy as lead
• As tough as tough
• Babe magnet
• Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head (The Beatles song lyric)
• Born with a silver spoon in his mouth
• Brass In Pocket (The Pretenders song)
• Brass monkey weather
• Brass tacks (Cockney rhyming slang for facts)
• British Steel, British mettle (British Steel advertising slogan)
• Cadmium red
• Cadmium yellow
• Cast iron alibi
• Cast iron guarantee
• Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (play by Tennesee Williams and Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Chick magnet
• Chrome pony
• Coffee at its best (Nescafe Gold Blend advertising slogan)
• Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
• Copper bottomed
• Crock of gold
• Cross my palm with silver
• Death metal
• Does exactly what it says on the tin (Ronseal advertising slogan)
• Dr. Iron Fist (Nickname of Vitali Klitschko)
• Dream On (Aerosmith song)
• Eat lead sucker
• Every dark cloud has a silver lining
• Fanny magnet
• First with the Hits (Mercury Records advertising slogan)
• Fist of Steel (Nickname of boxer Chevelle Hallback)
• Five for silver (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Fool's gold (a brassy yellow mineral that the inexperienced prospector may mistake for gold)
• Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick movie)
• Gee, I wish I had a nickel (Life Savers Candy advertising slogan)
• Get a gold star (earn a merit point for doing well)
• Get down to brass tacks
• Get the lead out
• Go for gold
• Go where the green lights lead you
• Gold digger
• Good as gold (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• Heart Of Gold (Neil Young song)
• Heart of gold
• Heavy metal
• Hiyo Silver away (A catchphrase from The Lone Ranger)
• Imagine yourself in a Mercury (Mercury advertising slogan)
• In the lead
• Iron Man (Nickname of John Terry)
• Iron Mike (Nickname of Mike Tyson)
• Iron fist in velvet glove
• Iron hoof (Cockney rhyming slang for poof)
• Iron out
• Iron out the wrinkles
• Is your film as good as Gold? (Kodak advertising slogan)
• Jack jump over the candlestick (line from nursery rhyme)
• Juvenile lead
• Lead a charmed life
• Lead a dog's life
• Lead a merry dance
• Lead by example
• Lead by the nose
• Lead from behind
• Lead from the front
• Lead into temptation
• Lead on
• Lead pipe cinch
• Lead someone to the altar
• Lead the field
• Lead up the garden path
• Lead up to
• Lead with the chin
• Led Zeppelin
• Like a cat on a hot tin roof
• Little tin god
• Maxwell's Silver Hammer (The Beatles song)
• Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
• Metal fatigue
• My wings are a shield of steel (A catchphrase from Batfink cartoon)
• Nerves of steel
• New doors opened (Mercury advertising slogan)
• Nickel and dime
• Nickel bag
• Not a cough in a carload (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Not worth a plugged nickel
• Not worth a tinker's dam
• Packing lead
• Protect a lead
• Pump iron
• Pure gold (Benson & Hedges advertising slogan)
• Put lead in your pencil
• Put the pedal to the metal
• Put the tin hat on it
• Rule with a rod of iron
• Rule with an iron fist
• Scrap Iron (Nickname of Phil Garner)
• See the face you love light up with Terry's All Gold (Terrys Chocolates advertising slogan)
• Selling the family silver
• Silver Blaze (Sherlock Holmes story)
• Silver bullet (a simple and seeming effortless solution to a difficult problem)
• Silver circle
• Silver fox (a handsome grey-haired man)
• Silver screen
• Silver service (a method of serving food using silver cutlery)
• Silver surfer (an older person who uses the World Wide Web)
• Silver threads amongst the gold (blonde hair that is turning grey)
• Silver tongued (eloquent or persuasive manner of speech)
• Silver wedding (a celebration of twenty-five years of marriage)
• Six for gold (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Speech is silver but silence is golden
• Star of the silver screen
• Steel Magnolia (Nickname of Rosalynn Carter)
• Steel yourself
• Strike while the iron is hot
• Swing the lead
• TV gold
• Take the lead
• That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine (Gene Autry song)
• That and a nickel will get you a ride on the subway
• The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Boy David (Nickname of English politician David Steel)
• The Brass Cupcake (Nickname of Dee Dee McCall (Stepfanie Kramer))
• The Bronze Goddess of Fire (Nickname of LaWanda Page)
• The Cannonball Kid (Nickname of tennis player Roscoe Tanner)
• The Copper State (Nickname of the US state of Arizona)
• The Eiffel Tower (tourist attraction in Paris France)
• The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin movie)
• The Gold Standard
• The Iron Chancellor (Nickname of Otto Von Bismark)
• The Iron Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist states)
• The Iron Duke (Nickname of Arthur Duke of Wellington)
• The Iron Horse (Nickname of Lou Gehrig)
• The Iron Lady (Nickname of Margaret Thatcher)
• The Iron Man (Nickname of Cal Ripken Jr.)
• The Man in the Iron Mask
• The Midas touch
• The Silver Fox (Nickname of Edwin Snider)
• The Silver Prince (Nickname of Sourav Ganguly - Indian cricketer)
• The Steel City (Nickname of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania)
• The Steel City (Nickname of Sheffield England)
• The Steel Heart Of The Republic (Nickname of Ostrava Czech Republic)
• The family silver
• The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
• The streets of London are paved with gold
• There's gold in them thar hills
• This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
• Tin ear
• To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
• Wabash Cannonball (Roy Acuff song)
• We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just one thing. The World's Best Tobacco (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Went down like a lead balloon
• Where there's muck there's brass
• With a hearty hiho Silver
• With brass knobs on
• With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row (line from nursery rhyme)
• Worth one's weight in gold
• You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink
• You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think
• You can't top the copper top (Duracell Batteries advertising slogan)
• You'll never take me alive copper