Pat Phrases

Phrases

• A slap on the wrist
• A touch of frost
• A touch of the sun
• A touch of the tarbrush
• Bitch slap (a full swing slap in the face intended to be humiliating)
• Don't touch
• Don't touch that dial
• Down pat
• Finishing touch
• Golden touch
• Hit 'em where they live
• Hit The Road Jack (Ray Charles song)
• Hit and miss
• Hit and run
• Hit by the stupid stick
• Hit for six
• Hit home
• Hit it off
• Hit it on the nose
• Hit it out of the park (A baseball expression denoting a complete or spectacular success)
• Hit list
• Hit man
• Hit me on the hip
• Hit on
• Hit out at
• Hit out of the park
• Hit parade
• Hit paydirt
• Hit rock bottom
• Hit send
• Hit the back wall
• Hit the bar
• Hit the books
• Hit the bottle
• Hit the brakes
• Hit the bricks (a cursory slang term telling someone to leave)
• Hit the buffers
• Hit the ceiling
• Hit the deck
• Hit the ground running
• Hit the hay
• Hit the headlines
• Hit the high notes
• Hit the jackpot
• Hit the nail on the head
• Hit the panic button
• Hit the road Jack
• Hit the roof
• Hit the sack
• Hit the skids

• Hit the slide
• Hit the spot
• Hit the woodwork
• Hit town
• I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole
• I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole
• Kick it into touch
• Light the blue touch paper and retire
• Light touch
• Looks like a bomb has hit it
• Lose touch with
• Lose your touch
• Magic touch
• Off pat
• On your Pat (Cockney rhyming slang for alone)
• Pat a cake, Pat a cake, baker's man, bake me a cake as fast as you can (line from nursery rhyme)
• Pat on the back
• Pat the Bat (Nickname of Pat Burrell)
• Pinch hit (A baseball expression denoting a substitute or stand-in)
• Please Mr. Postman (The Beatles song)
• Put some slap on
• Reach out and touch someone (American Telephone & Telegraph advertising slogan)
• Slap and tickle
• Slap bang in the middle
• Slap happy
• Slap in the face
• Smell the Glove (fictional album by the spoof heavy-metal band Spinal Tap)
• So fast your feet won't touch the ground
• Soft touch
• Stay in touch
• Switch hitter (A baseball expression denoting a batter who can hit left or right handed)
• The Dowager Queen of the Game Shows (Nickname of Pat Carroll)
• The Hit Dog (Nickname of Mo Vaughn)
• The Hit Man (Nickname of Bob Sanders)
• The Hit Man (Nickname of Ricky Hatton)
• The Hit Man (Nickname of Thomas Hearns)
• The Midas touch
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (Jack Nicholson movie)
• The common touch
• The patter of tiny feet
• The skin you love to touch (Woodbury Soap advertising slogan)
• These go to eleven (line from the movie This Is Spinal Tap)
• Tiptoe through the tulips (1920s Broadway song and Tiny Tim hit)
• Today something we do will touch your life (Union Carbide and Carbon advertising slogan)
• Touch Of Evil (Charlton Heston / Orson Welles movie)
• Touch and go
• Touch base
• Touch bottom
• Touch my monkey! (A catchphrase from Sprockets In Saturday Night Live)
• Touch wood
• Touch your heart (Taiwan advertising slogan)