Nail Phrases

Phrases

• Ace Ventura Pet Detective (Jim Carrey movie)
• Ace in the hole
• Ace up his sleeve
• Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall (Spike Milligan book)
• Air ace
• All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (Spike Jones song)
• All men are cremated equal (Spike Milligan line)
• An ace caff with a nice museum attached (Victoria & Albert Museum advertising slogan)
• Another nail in the coffin
• As black as the ace of spades
• As bright as a new pin
• As dead as a doornail
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• As hard as nails
• As neat as a new pin
• As sharp as a tack
• Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head (The Beatles song lyric)
• Bite your nails
• Blow your own horn
• Cash on the nail
• Chip and pin
• Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard (Spike Milligan line)
• Coffin nail
• Come within an ace
• Contraceptives should be used on all conceivable occasions (Spike Milligan line)
• Fight tooth and nail
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost (line from nursery rhyme)
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
• Go at it with hammer and tongs
• Hammer and tongs
• Hammer it home
• Hammer it out
• Hard to pin down
• Hit the nail on the head
• Horn in on
• I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (Spike Jones song)
• I told you I was ill (Spike Milligan line inscribed on his gravestone)
• King pin
• Like trying to nail jello to a wall

• Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
• Maxwell's Silver Hammer (The Beatles song)
• Nail a lie
• Nail down
• Nail your colours to the mast
• Ne'er cast a clout till May is out
• Off the peg
• On the horn
• On the nail
• Pay on the nail
• Peg out
• Pin money
• Pin the tail on the donkey
• Pin your ears back
• Pin your hopes on
• Pull the pin
• Put the hammer down
• Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
• See a pin and pick it up
• See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day
• Sharp as a tack
• Square peg in a round hole
• Take down a peg or two
• The Hammer (Nickname of Josh Willingham)
• The Hammer (Nickname of Kris Humphries)
• The Hammer (Nickname of Matt Carroll)
• The Hammer of The Scots (Nickname of King Edward I)
• The Hebrew Hammer (Nickname of Ryan Braun)
• The Holland Hammer (Nickname of Rick VandenHurk)
• The Peg (Nickname of Winnipeg Manitoba)
• The Polish Hammer (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
• The first network for men (Spike TV advertising slogan)
• There's a lot of it about (A catchphrase from Spike Milligan)
• Thumbnail sketch
• Toot your own horn
• Tooth and nail
• Under the hammer
• When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
• Within an ace
• You could have heard a pin drop

Related

• Another nail in the coffin
• Cash on the nail
• Coffin nail
• Fight tooth and nail
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost (line from nursery rhyme)
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
• Hit the nail on the head
• Like trying to nail jello to a wall
• Nail a lie
• Nail down
• Nail your colours to the mast
• On the nail
• Pay on the nail
• Tooth and nail
• When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail