Peak Phrases

Phrases

• A few roos loose in the top paddock
• Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Marvin Gaye song)
• All-time high
• America's Next Top Model
• As fresh as a mountain stream
• At knife point
• At this point in time
• Beside the point
• Blow your top
• Cherry top
• Cold Mountain (Jude Law / Renee Zellweger / Nicole Kidman movie)
• Come out on top
• Cool as a mountain stream (Consulate Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Cream always rises to the top
• Damn fine coffee (A catchphrase from Twin Peaks)
• Decision height (The point at which a pilot must abort a landing)
• Deep Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Do the Dew (Mountain Dew advertising slogan)
• Drive your point home
• Feel 95 point great (Capital FM advertising slogan)
• Flash point
• Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs tune title)
• For top laps (The Economist advertising slogan)
• From the top
• From top to toe
• Get a gold star (earn a merit point for doing well)
• Get straight to the point
• Get the point
• Go over the top
• Go to the top of the class
• Hello sunshine! Hello Mountain Dew (Mountain Dew advertising slogan)
• Hot tip
• If the mountain won't go to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain
• In point of fact
• In tip top condition
• In your prime
• It's lonely at the top
• It's tough at the top
• Jumping off point
• Kangaroos in your top paddock
• Keep on top of
• Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars (A catchphrase from Casey Kasem In America's Top 40)
• Look Ma, no cavities! (Crest Toothpaste advertising slogan)
• Major league (A baseball expression meaning at the top rank)
• Make a mountain out of a molehill
• Moot point
• Not to put too fine a point on it
• Off peak
• Off the top of my head
• On the crest of a wave
• On the tip of my tongue
• On top of the world
• Out of the top drawer
• Over the top
• Peak performance
• Point Break (Keanu Reeves movie)
• Point Percy at the porcelain
• Point blank range
• Point duty
• Point of sale
• Point of view
• Point out
• Point the finger
• Point to point
• Press your point home
• Prime time
• River Deep Mountain High (Ike and Tina Turner song)

• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rocky mountain high
• Scale the dizzy heights
• Shout at the top of one's lungs
• Silly Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Single point of contact
• Sleep like a top
• Sneak peek
• Sticking point
• Stretch a point
• Sugar Loaf Mountain (tourist attraction in Brazil)
• Table Mountain (tourist attraction in South Africa)
• Take it from the top
• Talking point
• The Green Mountain State (Nickname of the US state of Vermont)
• The Top Ten
• The best way of expressing your intelligence (Zenith Data Systems advertising slogan)
• The case in point
• The elevator doesn't go to the top floor
• The height of fashion
• The height of summer
• The point of contact (Sprint advertising slogan)
• The point of no return
• The top banana in the West (Hughes Air West advertising slogan)
• The top of the programme
• The view from the top
• Thin on top
• Tip of the iceberg
• Tip someone off
• Tip someone the wink
• Tip the balance
• Tip the scales
• Tipping point
• Tonight's top ten list (A catchphrase from David Letterman In The Late Show)
• Top Hat (Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers movie)
• Top and tail
• Top banana
• Top breeders recommend it (Pedigree Chum Dog food advertising slogan)
• Top dog
• Top dollar
• Top down
• Top drawer
• Top flight
• Top gear
• Top hole
• Top it off
• Top marks
• Top notch
• Top o' the morning
• Top of the hour
• Top of the pops
• Top of the range
• Top of the shop (Bingo call for number ninety)
• Top of the tree
• Top out at
• Top people take the Times (The Times advertising slogan)
• Top priority
• Top quality
• Top seed
• Top shelf magazine
• Top slicing
• Top table
• Top the bill
• Top tips
• Under the big top
• What's the point?
• You can't top the copper top (Duracell Batteries advertising slogan)
• Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni movie)