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Murder Phrases
195 phrases and expressions related to "murder".
Phrases
- A Murder Is Announced (Agatha Christie book)
- A View To A Kill (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
- At death's door
- Badgered to death
- Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head (The Beatles song lyric)
- Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me (from a poem by Dickinson)
- Billy The Kid (Nickname of Henry McCarty aka William Bonney)
- Blow your brains out
- Blown away
- Blue murder
- Blue screen of death
- Blunt instrument
- Bored to death
- Brush with death
- Bump off
- Cake or death (line from Eddie Izzard comedy)
- Catch your death of cold
- Cement overcoat
- Cement shoes
- Character assassination
- Chicago overcoat
- Chicago piano
- Concrete shoes
- Cop killer
- Cot death
- Cowards may die many times before their death
- Dance of death
- Dead man walking
- Dead men tell no tales
- Death In Venice (Dirk Bogade / Luchino Visconti movie)
- Death On The Nile (Agatha Christie book)
- Death On The Orient Express (Agatha Christie book)
- Death Valley (tourist attraction in Arizona USA)
- Death by PowerPoint
- Death by a thousand cuts
- Death by chocolate
- Death by committee
- Death by misadventure
- Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down
- Death metal
- Death of a Salesman (play by Arthur Miller)
- Death trap
- Dice with death
- Die a death
- Do something to death
- Don't give a hang
- Done to death
- Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder movie)
- Dressed to kill
- Drive by shooting
- Fate worse than death
- Get away with murder
- Get the hang of it
- Give a dog a bad name and hang him
- Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself
- Give him enough rope and he'll hang himself
- Give me liberty or give me death
- Go in for the kill
- Go postal
- Grim death
- Grip of death
- Group of death (the most difficult or competitive group in a sports tournament)
- Hang a left
- Hang a right
- Hang about
- Hang around with
- Hang back
- Hang by the neck until dead
- Hang fire
- Hang him out to dry
- Hang in there
- Hang loose
- Hang on
- Hang on a minute
- Hang on by your fingertips
- Hang on every word
- Hang on for dear life
- Hang on like grim death
- Hang on to your shirt tails
- Hang out
- Hang out with
- Hang out your shingle
- Hang ten
- Hang time
- Hang tough
- Hang up your boots
- Hang up your hat
- Hang up your sword
- Hang your hat on
- Hang your head
- Hit list
- How To Murder Your Wife (Jack Lemmon movie)
- I could murder a cup of tea
- I could murder a curry
- I'd kill for a cup of tea
- If I tell you, I'll have to kill you
- If looks could kill
- In at the death
- In at the kill
- In the midst of life we are in death
- Into the valley of death rode the six hundred
- Jack the Ripper (Nickname of Victorian murderer)
- Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino movie)
- Kill or be killed
- Kill or cure
- Kill stone dead
- Kill the fatted calf
- Kill the goose that lays the golden egg
- Kill time
- Kill time until time kills you
- Kill two birds with one stone
- Kill with kindness
- Killing In The Name Of Love (Firewind song)
- Killing Me Softly With His Song (Roberta Flack song
- Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs
- Kiss of death
- Let it all hang out
- Licence To Kill (James Bond movie Timothy Dalton)
- Licensed to kill
- Life after death
- Life and death struggle
- Like death warmed up
- Look death in the eye
- Make a killing
- Matter of life and death
- Meat is murder
- Merchant of death
- Mercy killing
- Murder On The Dance Floor (Sophie Ellis-Bexter song)
- Murder will out
- Near death experience
- Not up to snuff
- Nothing is certain but death and taxes
- On death row
- On pain of death
- Out of the jaws of death
- Put out a contract on
- Put the fear of death into someone
- Put to death
- Road kill
- Scared to death
- Scream bloody murder
- Scream blue murder
- Shoot to kill
- Shot while trying to escape
- Sick to death of
- Slay the dragon
- Snuff out
- Son of Sam (Nickname of David Berkowitz)
- Stop it you're killing me
- Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) (Kelly Clarkson song)
- Take someone out
- That which does not kill us makes us stronger (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
- The Acid-bath Killer (Nickname of John Haigh)
- The Angel of Death (Nickname of Josef Mengele)
- The Boston Strangler (Nickname of Albert DeSalvo)
- The Clown Killer (Nickname of John Gacy)
- The Hillside Strangler (Nickname of Alessio and Angelo)
- The Hypochondriac's Guide To Life And Death (Gene Weingarten book)
- The Living Death (Nickname of Lew Jenkins)
- The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (Bob Dylan song)
- The Masque of the Red Death
- The Moors Murderers (Nickname of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley)
- The Scottish play
- The Shining (Stanley Kubrick movie)
- The Silence Of The Lambs (Jodie Foster / Anthony Hopkins movie)
- The Zodiac Killer (Nickname of Seda Heriberto)
- The body is still warm
- The killing fields
- The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
- The valley of the shadow of death (line from the Lord's Prayer)
- The wages of sin is death
- There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream
- Thou shalt not kill
- Tickled to death
- Till Death Us Do Part (BBC comedy television series)
- Time to kill
- To Kill A Mockingbird (Gregory Peck movie)
- Until death do us part
- Up to snuff
- Wall of death
- Whispering Death (Nickname of Michael Holding - West Indies cricketer)
- You'll be the death of me
- You're killing me
Related
- A Murder Is Announced (Agatha Christie book)
- Blue murder
- Get away with murder
- How To Murder Your Wife (Jack Lemmon movie)
- I could murder a cup of tea
- I could murder a curry
- Meat is murder
- Murder On The Dance Floor (Sophie Ellis-Bexter song)
- Murder will out
- Scream bloody murder
- Scream blue murder