Peg Phrases

Phrases

• Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall (Spike Milligan book)
• All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (Spike Jones song)
• All men are cremated equal (Spike Milligan line)
• An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
• Another nail in the coffin
• As bright as a new pin
• As neat as a new pin
• As sharp as a tack
• Cash on the nail
• Chapel hat pegs
• Chip and pin
• Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard (Spike Milligan line)
• Coffin nail
• Contraceptives should be used on all conceivable occasions (Spike Milligan line)
• Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night (All About Eve)
• Fight tooth and nail
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost (line from nursery rhyme)
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
• Hard to pin down
• Hit the nail on the head
• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?
• I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (Spike Jones song)
• I told you I was ill (Spike Milligan line inscribed on his gravestone)
• King pin
• Level pegging
• Like trying to nail jello to a wall

• Long in the tooth
• Nail a lie
• Nail down
• Nail your colours to the mast
• Nature, red in tooth and claw
• Off the peg
• On the nail
• Pay on the nail
• Peg out
• Pin money
• Pin the tail on the donkey
• Pin your ears back
• Pin your hopes on
• Pull the pin
• Secure in the knowledge
• See a pin and pick it up
• See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day
• Sharp as a tack
• Square peg in a round hole
• Sweet tooth
• Take down a peg or two
• The Peg (Nickname of Winnipeg Manitoba)
• The first network for men (Spike TV advertising slogan)
• There's a lot of it about (A catchphrase from Spike Milligan)
• Tooth and nail
• When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
• You could have heard a pin drop