Muscle Phrases

Phrases

• A Fish Called Wanda (John Cleese movie)
• A head for business and a body for sin
• A healthy mind in a healthy body
• A piece of meat
• A room without books is like a body without a soul (Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation)
• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
• Absolute power corrupts absolutely (quotation by Lord Acton)
• Air Power is Peace Power (Lockheed Aircraft advertising slogan)
• All brawn and no brains
• All is fish that comes to the net
• Balance of power
• Beat your meat
• Beef and reef
• Beef up
• Beef. It's what's for dinner (Cattlemen's Beef Board advertising slogan)
• Big fish eat little fish
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Bigger fish to fry
• Black power
• Body and soul
• Body bag
• Body blow
• Body building
• Body heat
• Body language
• Body mass index
• Body of evidence
• Body of opinion
• Body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch
• Body painting (a form of painting that uses the human body as a canvas)
• Body politic
• Body popping
• Body snatcher
• Body surfing
• Buzzard meat
• Cask strength (The strength of whiskey during its cask storage phase)
• Cheer up, it might never happen
• Cold fish
• Cold meat
• Cry stinking fish
• Dead meat
• Different kettle of fish
• Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? (Warner's Body Bra advertising slogan)
• Do yourself a power of good
• Doesn't have a jealous bone in his body
• Drink like a fish
• Easy meat
• Fight the power
• Figure painting (a form of painting in which the human body is the subject)
• Fish always rot from the head downwards
• Fish and finger pie (Beatles song lyric)
• Fish and guests smell after three days
• Fish it out
• Fish or cut bait
• Fish out
• Fish out of water
• Flesh and blood
• Flesh out
• Flex your muscles
• Flower power
• From strength to strength
• Fruiting body
• Girl power
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
• Go the way of all flesh
• Got bigger fish to fry
• Grey power
• Guinness gives you strength (Guinness advertising slogan)
• He makes my flesh crawl
• He makes my flesh creep
• Heavenly body
• I got punky power (A catchphrase from Punky Brewster)
• I have the power! (A catchphrase from He-Man In Masters Of The Universe)
• If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?
• In the flesh
• Industrial strength
• Invest with power
• It is meat and drink to me
• It's all meat, a real treat
• Keep body and soul together
• Knowledge is power
• Like a fish out of water
• Like shooting fish in a barrel
• Little fish in a big pond (someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers)
• Meat and drink
• Meat and potatoes
• Meat and two veg
• Meat head
• Meat is murder

• Meat market
• Meat packer
• Meat wagon
• Might and main
• Might as well
• Might is right
• Might makes right
• Milk. It does a body good (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Money is power
• More power to your elbow
• More than flesh and blood can stand
• Muscle bound
• Muscle in on
• Muscle man
• Muscles from Brussels (Nickname of Jean Claude Van-Damme)
• Mystery meat
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Now you're playing with power! (Nintendo Entertainment System advertising slogan)
• Odd fish
• One man's meat is another man's poison
• One two many and you might turn Bertie (Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts advertising slogan)
• Out of sweetness came forth strength (Tate & Lyle advertising slogan)
• Over my dead body
• People power
• Pester power
• Pigs might fly
• Plates of meat (Cockney rhyming slang for feet)
• Please don't squeeze the Charmin toilet tissue (Charmin advertising slogan)
• Pork, the other white meat (National Pork Council advertising slogan)
• Pound of flesh
• Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely
• Power dressing
• Power is Macintosh (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Power lunch
• Power mad
• Power nap
• Power to the people
• Power trip
• Power up
• Power without the price (Atari advertising slogan)
• Press the flesh
• Pretty kettle of fish
• Put flesh on your bones
• Put some muscle into it
• Queer fish
• Real food for real people (The beef industry advertising slogan)
• Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
• School of fish
• Six pack
• Smile, it might never happen
• So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
• Soft power
• Soft, strong and very long (Andrex toilet tissue advertising slogan)
• Stops body odour (Lifebouy Soap advertising slogan)
• Strength in numbers
• Superhero strength
• The Beef State (Nickname of the US state of Nebraska)
• The Body Guard (Nickname of Baron Davis)
• The King and Queen Might Eat Thereof and Noblemen Besides (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• The Strength of Experience (GMC Truck advertising slogan)
• The body is still warm
• The body of evidence
• The corridors of power
• The lion leaps from strength to strength (Peugeot advertising slogan)
• The power and the glory
• The power behind the throne
• The power of dreams (Honda advertising slogan)
• The power to be your best (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
• The way of all flesh
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• This little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none (line from nursery rhyme)
• Thorn in the flesh
• Tissue of lies
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• Tour de force (a feat of strength power or skill)
• Tower of strength
• Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Unleash the power of the sun (Sunny Delight advertising slogan)
• Vacation is a world where there are no locks on the doors or the mind or the body (Club Med Resorts advertising slogan)
• Wardrobe malfunction (when an item of clothing slips out of place to expose part of the body - typically a woman's breast)
• Wet fish
• What does that have to do with the price of fish?
• What's your beef?
• Where's the beef? (Wendy's Restaurants advertising slogan)
• With great power comes great responsibility
• With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row (line from nursery rhyme)
• You don't know your own strength
• You too can have a body like mine (Charles Atlas advertising slogan)