Palette Phrases

Phrases

• A lick of paint
• A splash of colour
• As boring as watching paint dry
• At knife point
• Before you could say knife
• Chocolate is better in colour (M&M's advertising slogan)
• 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)
• Do I have to paint you a picture?
• Gentlemen of colour
• Go under the knife
• Horse of a different colour
• Knife and fork it
• Lend colour to
• Let's see the colour of your money
• Mac the Knife (Nickname of Harold Macmillan)
• Mack The Knife (Bertold Brecht song)

• Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
• Off colour
• On a knife edge
• Only 1 out of 25 men is color blind. The other 24 just dress that way (Mohara Suits advertising slogan)
• Paint It Black (Rolling Stones song)
• Paint Your Wagon (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Paint the town red
• Paint yourself into a corner
• People of colour
• Riot of colour
• That's not a knife; that's a knife (Crocodile Dundee)
• The Color Of Money (Paul Newman / Tom Cruise movie)

• The Color Purple (Whoopie Goldberg movie)
• The Colour Of My Love (Celine Dion album)
• To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
• Twist the knife
• War paint
• What colour is the sky in your world?
• When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob Dylan song)
• You can have any colour as long as it's black
• You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife
• You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife (Country Life butter advertising slogan)