Perch Phrases

Phrases

• A Fish Called Wanda (John Cleese movie)
• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
• All is fish that comes to the net
• Balance of nature
• Balance of payments
• Balance of power
• Balance of probabilities
• Balance of trade
• Big fish eat little fish
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Bigger fish to fry
• Climb the greasy pole
• Cold fish
• Come home to roost
• Cry stinking fish
• Dancing pleats that won't sit out (Orlon Fabric advertising slogan)
• Different kettle of fish
• Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? (Rod Stewart song)
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Don't just sit there
• Drink like a fish
• Dropped off the perch
• Fish always rot from the head downwards
• Fish and finger pie (Beatles song lyric)
• Fish and guests smell after three days
• Fish it out
• Fish or cut bait
• Fish out
• Fish out of water
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
• Got bigger fish to fry
• He Hate Me (Nickname of American football player Rod Smart)
• Hot Rod (Nickname of basketball player Rodney Hundley)
• I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole
• I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole
• In The Heat Of The Night (Sidney Poitier / Rod Steiger)
• In the balance
• Like a fish out of water
• Like shooting fish in a barrel
• Little fish in a big pond (someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers)
• Lose your balance

• Low man on the totem pole
• Maggie Mae (Rod Stewart song)
• Make a rod for your own back
• Mental balance
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Odd fish
• Off balance
• Old trout
• On balance
• Pole position
• Pretty kettle of fish
• Queer fish
• Redress the balance
• Rule the roost
• Rule with a rod of iron
• School of fish
• Sit it out
• Sit on it (A catchphrase from Happy Days)
• Sit on someone's tail
• Sit on the fence
• Sit on your hands
• Sit tight
• Sit up and beg
• Sit up and take notice
• So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
• Spare the rod and spoil the child
• Strike a balance
• The First Cut Is The Deepest (Rod Stewart song)
• The Foul Pole (Nickname of Andrew Golota)
• The balance of his mind was disturbed
• The chickens have come home to roost
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• Tip the balance
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• Trout pout
• Up the pole
• Weigh something in the balance
• Weighed in the balance and found wanting
• Wet fish
• What does that have to do with the price of fish?
• Work life balance
• You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart song)