Needle Phrases

Phrases

• All part of life's rich tapestry
• Anthony and Cleopatra
• Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did? (Dial Soap advertising slogan)
• As bright as a new pin
• As neat as a new pin
• As sharp as a tack
• At knife point
• At this point in time
• Beside the point
• Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
• Brown sugar (slang term for heroin)
• Card sharp
• Chip and pin
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
• Don't touch that dial
• Drive your point home
• Feel 95 point great (Capital FM advertising slogan)
• Flash point
• Get a gold star (earn a merit point for doing well)
• Get straight to the point
• Get the needle
• Get the point
• Hampton (Cockney rhyming slang for prick)
• Hard to pin down
• Heroin chic
• In point of fact
• In sharp focus
• It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
• Jumping off point
• King pin
• Knit one purl one
• Knit your brow
• Knit your own sandals
• Leaf through
• Like looking for a needle in a haystack
• Look sharp
• Look sharp, feel sharp (Gillette advertising slogan)
• Moot point
• Not to put too fine a point on it
• People who like people like Dial (Dial Soap advertising slogan)
• Pin money
• Pin the tail on the donkey
• Pin your ears back
• Pin your hopes on
• Pins and needles
• Point Break (Keanu Reeves movie)
• Point Percy at the porcelain
• Point blank range
• Point duty
• Point of sale
• Point of view
• Point out
• Point the finger
• Point to point
• Press your point home
• Prick up your ears
• Prick your bubble
• Pull the pin
• Razor sharp
• 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
• Shake like a leaf
• Sharp as a tack
• Sharp eyed
• Sharp shooter
• Sharp tongue
• Short sharp shock
• Silly Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Single point of contact
• Sticking point
• Stretch a point
• Talking point
• Tea leaf (Cockney rhyming slang for thief)
• The case in point
• The point of contact (Sprint advertising slogan)
• The point of no return
• Through the eye of a needle
• Tipping point
• Turn over a new leaf
• What's the point?
• You could have heard a pin drop
• Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni movie)