Mug Phrases

Phrases

• A cup of coffee (A baseball expression denoting a break from major league baseball)
• A face as long as a fiddle
• A face like a Greek god
• A great face for radio
• Abide with me (hymn traditionally sung at the English football Cup Final)
• About face
• And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
• Angel face
• Arse about face
• As plain as the nose on your face
• Assault with a deadly weapon
• At face value
• Attack is the best form of defence
• Attack of the Clones (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• Baby face
• Bitch slap (a full swing slap in the face intended to be humiliating)
• Blue in the face
• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• Body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch
• Boy, is my face red (A catchphrase from David Letterman)
• Burst a blood vessel
• Butter Face
• Chew face
• Costa Del Crime
• Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky book)
• Crime Dog (Nickname of baseball player Fred McGriff)
• Crime against nature
• Crime doesn't pay
• Crime of passion
• Cup of joe
• Cup that cheers
• Denial of service attack
• Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
• Don't get a face on
• Eat face
• Egg on your face
• Face card (the jack queeen or king in a set of playing cards)
• Face down
• Face facts
• Face fungus
• Face in the crowd
• Face lift
• Face like a bulldog chewing a wasp
• Face like a fiddle
• Face like an unmade bed
• Face like the back of a bus
• Face like thunder
• Face off
• Face palm moment
• Face recognition)
• Face that could stop a clock
• Face that only a mother could love
• Face the competition
• Face the music
• Face the truth
• Face time
• Face your maker
• Fall flat on your face
• Ferret face (Nickname of Major Frank Burns (Larry Linville))
• Fly in the face of the evidence
• Frog face
• Get out of my face
• Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid (Fairy Liquid advertising slogan)
• Heart attack on a plate
• Heart attack waiting to happen
• Her face lit up
• Hold up
• I could murder a cup of tea
• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception (Groucho Marx line)
• I wasn't born yesterday
• I'd kill for a cup of tea
• If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face (Carl's Jr advertising slogan)

• If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
• If your face fits
• In your face
• It's written all over your face
• Keep a straight face
• Kick sand in his face
• Laugh in your face
• Laugh on the wrong side of your face
• Let the punishment fit the crime
• Let's face it
• Let's face the music and dance
• Line of attack
• Long face
• Lose face
• Mace your face
• Make a face
• Monstrous carbuncle on the face of an old friend (Prince Charles quotation)
• Mug's game
• My cup runneth over
• Northern Exposure (Rob Morrow movie)
• Nose for crime
• Not just a pretty face
• Not my cup of tea
• Off your face
• On the face of it
• On the face of the earth
• One More Cup Of Coffee (Bob Dylan song)
• Partners in crime
• Pizza face
• Play kissy face
• Poker Face (Lady Gaga song)
• Poker face
• Portrait painting (a form of painting in which the human face is the subject)
• Pull a face
• Put a brave face on
• Put your game face on
• Rob Peter to pay Paul
• Rob Roy (Nickname of Robert MacGregor)
• Rob someone blind
• Robo Sack (Nickname of Rob Johnson)
• Save face
• See the face you love light up with Terry's All Gold (Terrys Chocolates advertising slogan)
• Serious as a heart attack
• Set your face against something
• Shut your face
• Slap in the face
• Snack attack
• Stuff your face
• Suck face (slang term for kissing)
• Take a bite out of crime
• Take a bite out of crime! (National Crime Prevention Council advertising slogan)
• That frosty mug sensation (A&W Root Beer advertising slogan)
• The Adventure of the Yellow Face (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Face (Nickname of Lt.Templeton Peck (Dirk Benedict))
• The Flying Squad (Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard)
• The Napoleon of Crime (Nickname of Professor Moriarty)
• The Shadow knows (A catchphrase from the crime fighting vigilante)
• The answer is staring you in the face
• The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup (Folgers Coffee advertising slogan)
• The face that launched a thousand ships
• The perfect crime
• The unacceptable face of capitalism
• There's many a slip twixt cup and lip
• Throw a beanball (A baseball expression meaning to attack an opponent by aiming at their head)
• Throw it back in your face
• Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime (Tony Blair political slogan)
• Trench warfare (combat where troops face each other in trenches)
• Ugly mug
• Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door (Beatles song lyric)
• We rob banks (Bonnie and Clyde)
• Wipe the smile off your face
• Wipe your face