Pedigree Phrases

Phrases

• A fine line
• A nod is as good as a wink to a blind bat (A line from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• After your blood
• All aboard the Skylark (A line from Noah and Nelly)
• All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (the opening line of Anna Karenina)
• All men are cremated equal (Spike Milligan line)
• Bad blood
• Bay for blood
• Beanpole family
• Best of breed
• Black sheep of the family
• Blessed are the cheese makers (line from Monty Python's Life of Brian)
• Blood Brothers (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Blood and guts
• Blood and thunder
• Blood blister (Cockney rhyming slang for sister)
• Blood brothers
• Blood curdling
• Blood diamonds
• Blood drive
• Blood in the water
• Blood injury
• Blood is thicker than water
• Blood lust
• Blood money
• Blood on the carpet
• Blood on your hands
• Blood product
• Blood spattered
• Blood sports
• Blood tingling
• Blood wagon
• Blood will out
• Blood, sweat and tears
• Blue blood
• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• Breed apart
• Breed like flies
• Breed like rabbits
• Brighton line (Bingo call for number fifty nine)
• Bulldog breed
• Burst a blood vessel
• Cake or death (line from Eddie Izzard comedy)
• Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! (line from the movie 25th Hour)
• Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard (Spike Milligan line)
• Come down to the line
• Come into line
• Contraceptives should be used on all conceivable occasions (Spike Milligan line)
• Cross the line
• Did I do that? (A catchphrase from Family Matters)
• Do a line
• Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars (line from the movie Now, Voyager)
• Draw a line in the sand
• Draw the line
• Drop me a line
• Dying breed
• Dysfunctional family
• Egg and spoon race
• Eight maids a-milking (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Eleven pipers piping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• End of the line
• Every time a bell rings, an angel gets it's wings (line from It's A Wonderful Life)
• Fall into line
• Family fortunes
• Family man
• Family matters
• Family ties
• Family tree
• Family values
• Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man
• First blood
• Five golden rings (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Flesh and blood
• Four calling birds (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Front line
• Get busy living, or get busy dying (line from the movie The Shawshank Redemption)
• Get your family into Shape, without them even noticing (St. Ivel Yogurt advertising slogan)
• Getting there is half the fun (Cunard Line advertising slogan)
• Go, and never darken my towels again (Groucho Marx line)
• Hand a line
• He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy (line from the movie Life of Brian)
• Head of the family
• Hell's bells and buckets of blood
• Hold the line
• Hook line and sinker
• I Think I Love You (The Partridge Family song)
• I Walk The Line (Johnny Cash song)
• I can see you standing over a hot stove, but I can't see the stove (Groucho Marx line)
• I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat (Winston Churchill quotation)
• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception (Groucho Marx line)
• I told you I was ill (Spike Milligan line inscribed on his gravestone)
• I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! (line from the movie Network)
• If you change your mind, I'm the first in line (ABBA lyric)
• In cold blood
• In line for
• In the blood
• In the family way
• In the line of duty
• In the line of fire
• Infamy Infamy! They've all got it in for me! (Kenneth Williams line in Carry On Cleo)
• It makes my blood boil
• It's a family affair
• Jump the line
• Keep in line
• Keep it in the family
• Lay it on the line
• Leave the gun, take the cannoli (line from The Godfather)
• Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon (Woody Allen line)
• Line abreast
• Line astern
• Line is full of misery and lonliness and it's over much too soon (Woody Allen line)
• Line of attack
• Line of least resistance
• Line of sight
• Line of work
• Line your pockets
• Makes red blood! (Grape-Nuts advertising slogan)
• Mama always said that life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get (line from the movie Forrest Gump)
• Mendoza line (A baseball expression denoting a line marking a very poor performance)
• More than flesh and blood can stand
• My arse (A catchphrase from Royle Family)
• My blood is up
• My blood ran cold
• My one regret in life is that I am not someone else (Woody Allen line)
• New blood
• Next in line to the throne
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Nudge nudge, wink wink (A line from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• Off line
• On deck (A baseball expression meaning next in line)
• One toe over the line
• Our survey says (A catchphrase from Family Fortunes)
• Out for someone's blood
• Out of line
• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read (Groucho Marx line)
• Party line
• Picket line
• Piss like a race horse
• Play the race card
• Please hold the line
• Race against the clock
• Race against time
• Race for the taste, the honey sweet taste!, the honey-nutty taste of Honey Nut Cheerios (Cheerios Cereals advertising slogan)
• Race proven performance (Kumho Tires advertising slogan)
• Race to the bottom
• Rat race
• Rivers of blood
• Run Forrest, Run! (line from the movie Forrest Gump)
• Runs in the family
• Rush of blood
• Sack race
• Selling the family silver
• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Shoot someone a line
• Sign on the dotted line
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Smell blood
• Spend more time with my family
• Spit blood
• Starting line up
• Step out of line
• Stop, or my mom will shoot (line from Sylvestor Stallone movie)
• Sweat blood
• Take a hard line
• Taste blood
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Amazing Race (US TV show)
• The Master Race
• The Royle Family (BBC comedy television series)
• The bottom line
• The bottom line is the bottom line is the bottom line
• The family jewels
• The family silver
• The family that prays together stays together
• The finishing line
• The human race
• The lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep (Woody Allen line)
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• The thin red line
• The valley of the shadow of death (line from the Psalm 23)
• These go to eleven (line from the movie This Is Spinal Tap)
• This Happy Breed (David Lean movie)
• This line of business
• This line of country
• Three French hens (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Three line whip
• Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• To infinty and beyond (line from the movie Toy Story)
• Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars (Buick advertising slogan)
• Toe the line
• Top breeders recommend it (Pedigree Chum Dog food advertising slogan)
• Treading a fine line
• Twelve drummers drumming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Two turtle doves (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Up and down like the Ottoman Empire (line from Monty Python's Life Of Brian)
• Wait in line
• We are going to need considerably bigger buns (line from Calendar Girls)
• We're Just One Big Happy Family (Richard Hawley song)
• We're just one big happy family
• Well, nobody's perfect (line from the movie Some Like It Hot)
• What we have here is a failure to communicate (line from Cool Hand Luke)
• You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family
• You can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff (Groucho Marx line)
• You can't get blood out of a stone
• You say you want a revolution (Line from Beatles song)
• You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! (line from the Michael Caine movie The Italian Job)