Oyster Phrases

Phrases

• A Fish Called Wanda (John Cleese movie)
• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
• All is fish that comes to the net
• An R in the month
• Big fish eat little fish
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Bigger fish to fry
• Cold fish
• Cry stinking fish
• Different kettle of fish
• Drink like a fish
• Earl the Pearl (Nickname of basketball player Earl Monroe)
• 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
• Girl With A Pearl Earring (Scarlett Johansson / Colin Firth movie)
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
• Got bigger fish to fry
• 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)
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Odd fish
• Pearl of great price
• Pretty kettle of fish
• Queer fish
• School of fish
• So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
• The Black Pearl (Nickname of Eusebio)
• The Pearl Of Orient (Nickname of Penang Malaysia)
• The Pearl Of The Danube (Nickname of Budapest Hungary)
• The Pearl Of The Mediterranean (Nickname of Alexandria Egypt)
• The Pearl Of The Orient (Nickname of Manila Philippines)
• The world is your oyster
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• Wet fish
• What does that have to do with the price of fish?
• With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row (line from nursery rhyme)