Paint Phrases

Phrases

• A lick of paint
• A picture paints a thousand words
• A splash of colour
• Action painting
• All fur coat and no knickers
• As black as ink
• As boring as watching paint dry
• As gay as pink ink
• As pretty as a picture
• Before the ink was dry
• Big picture
• Body painting (a form of painting that uses the human body as a canvas)
• Chocolate is better in colour (M&M's advertising slogan)
• Coat of many colours
• Color My World (James Pankow song)
• Colour coded
• Colour coordinated
• Colour me gone
• Colour me happy
• Colour my world
• Colour one's view
• Colour up
• Covers the earth (Sherwin Williams paint advertising slogan)
• Cut your coat to suit your cloth
• Dab hand at
• Do I have to paint you a picture?
• Does exactly what it says on the tin (Ronseal advertising slogan)
• Every picture tells a story (Doanes Backache Kidney Pills advertising slogan)
• Figure painting (a form of painting in which the human body is the subject)
• Fresh ink
• Gentlemen of colour
• Get the picture
• Get your coat
• Get your coat, you've pulled
• High visibility jacket (reflective coat worn to be easily seen)
• Hold it up to the light, not a stain and shining light (Surf Washing Powder advertising slogan)
• Horse of a different colour
• If I Didn't Care (The Ink Spots song)
• If I've only one life, let me live it as a blonde! (Clairol Hair Colouring advertising slogan)
• In the picture
• Ink in
• It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
• Landscape painting (a form of painting in which the natural world is the subject)
• Lend colour to
• Let's see the colour of your money

• Little gentleman in the velvet coat
• Man In The Long Black Coat (Bob Dylan song)
• Motion picture
• Motion picture event
• Moulin Rouge (Ewan McGregor / Nicole Kidman movie)
• No oil painting
• Not as black as you are painted
• Off colour
• Only 1 out of 25 men is color blind. The other 24 just dress that way (Mohara Suits advertising slogan)
• Out of the picture
• Paint It Black (Rolling Stones song)
• Paint Your Wagon (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Paint the town red
• Paint yourself into a corner
• Painted into a corner
• Painted lady
• Painting by numbers
• Pen and ink (Cockney rhyming slang for stink)
• People of colour
• Picture of health
• Picture perfect
• Portrait painting (a form of painting in which the human face is the subject)
• Put in the picture
• Riot of colour
• See the bigger picture
• Smack dab in the middle
• Still life (a form of painting in which inanimate objects are the subject)
• The Adventure of the Second Stain (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Color Of Money (Paul Newman / Tom Cruise movie)
• The Color Purple (Whoopie Goldberg movie)
• The Colour Of My Love (Celine Dion album)
• The Last Picture Show (Jeff Bridges movie)
• The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde book)
• The better stain getter (Ultra Biz Detergent advertising slogan)
• The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd
• Thumbnail sketch
• To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
• Turn coat
• Wallpaper the meeting
• War paint
• Weasel and Stoat (Cockney rhyming slang for coat)
• What colour is the sky in your world?
• What's wrong with this picture?
• When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob Dylan song)
• You can have any colour as long as it's black

Related

• A lick of paint
• As boring as watching paint dry
• Covers the earth (Sherwin Williams paint advertising slogan)
• Do I have to paint you a picture?
• Paint It Black (Rolling Stones song)
• Paint Your Wagon (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Paint the town red
• Paint yourself into a corner
• To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
• War paint
• When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob Dylan song)