Oilcloth Phrases

Phrases

• A red rag to a bull
• Blank canvas
• Body painting (a form of painting that uses the human body as a canvas)
• Burn the midnight oil
• Cloth ears
• Cut from the same cloth
• Cut your coat to suit your cloth
• Everybody out (A catchphrase from The Rag Trade)
• If that don't take the rag off the bush
• In full sail
• Like a rag doll
• Liquid engineering (Castrol Motor Oil advertising slogan)
• Lose your rag
• Make sail
• Man of the cloth
• No oil painting
• Oil Can (Nickname of Dennis Boyd)
• Oil and water don't mix
• Oil the wheels
• Pour oil on troubled waters
• Rag trade
• Rag, tag and bobtail
• Sail away
• Sail close to the wind
• Sail into
• Set sail
• The Rag Trade (BBC comedy television series)
• Wipe out
• Wipe the floor with
• Wipe the slate clean
• Wipe the smile off your face
• Wipe your face