Paw Phrases

Phrases

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A foot in both camps
• At first hand
• Athlete's foot
• Bachelor pad
• Bite your hand off
• Biting the hand that feeds IT (The Register advertising slogan)
• Bog trotter
• Bound hand and foot
• Business at hand
• Cap in hand
• Cash in hand
• Caught with your hand in the cookie jar
• Caught with your hand in the till
• Condemned out of hand
• Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman movie)
• Crash pad
• Dab hand at
• Do you know the piano's on my foot?
• Don't bite the hand that feeds you
• Dr. Iron Fist (Nickname of Vitali Klitschko)
• Eat out of someone's hand
• Extend the hand of friendship
• Fist of Steel (Nickname of boxer Chevelle Hallback)
• Fleet of foot
• Fold your hand
• Foot in mouth
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• Foot in the door
• Foot the bill
• Force his hand
• Free hand
• Get off on the right foot
• Get off on the wrong foot
• Get out of hand
• Get the upper hand
• Get your foot in the door
• Get your paws on it
• Give a hand
• Globe trotter
• Go cap in hand
• Got to hand it to you
• Hand a line
• Hand in glove
• Hand in hand
• Hand in your notice
• Hand it on a plate
• Hand it over
• Hand job
• Hand me down
• Hand me downs
• Hand over
• Hand over fist
• Hand picked
• Hand to mouth
• Hand's turn
• Hat in hand
• Have a hand in
• Have it in hand
• Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
• Heavy Lunch (Nickname of American football player Norman Hand)
• Helping hand
• I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles song)
• I don't believe it (A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew, One Foot In The Grave)
• I'll go to the foot of our stairs
• In the palm of your hand
• Iron fist in velvet glove
• Iron hoof (Cockney rhyming slang for poof)
• Keep your hand in
• Know like the back of your hand
• Lend a hand on the land (WWII slogan)
• Lend a helping hand
• M&Ms melt in your mouth, not in your hand (M&Ms chocolate advertising slogan)
• Make a good fist of it
• Nature, red in tooth and claw
• Off hand
• On the back foot
• On the hoof
• On the one hand
• On the other hand
• On the wrong foot
• One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
• One foot in the grave
• One hand tied behind your back
• One hand washes the other
• Put a foot wrong
• Put one foot in front of the other
• Put your best foot forward
• Put your foot down
• Put your foot in it
• Put your foot in your mouth
• Put your hand in your pocket
• Put your hand to the plough
• Raise your hand if you're sure (Sure advertising slogan)
• Right hand man
• Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
• Rule with an iron fist
• Set foot in
• Shoot yourself in the foot
• Show your hand
• Sleight of hand
• Strengthen your hand
• Take your hand in marriage
• Talk to the hand
• The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The answer is at hand
• The boot is on the other foot
• The hand is quicker than the eye
• The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
• The matter in hand
• The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand (M&M advertising slogan)
• The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing
• The shoe's on the other foot
• Try your hand
• Upper hand
• What we have here is a failure to communicate (line from Cool Hand Luke)
• Whip hand
• Work the rabbit's foot on