Phew Phrases

Phrases

• A few bricks short of a full load
• A few cards short of a full deck
• A few roos loose in the top paddock
• All hot and bothered
• As hot as Hades
• As hot as blue blazes
• Been around the block a few times
• Blow hot and cold
• Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (play by Tennesee Williams and Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Drop It Like It's Hot (Snoop Dogg song)
• Drop it like a hot potato
• Few and far between
• For A Few Dollars More (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Full of bull (talking hot air)
• Get into hot water
• Had a few
• Hot Lips Houlihan (Nickname of Major Margaret Houlihan (Loretta Swit))
• Hot Plate (Nickname of basketball player John Sam Williams)
• Hot Rod (Nickname of basketball player Rodney Hundley)
• Hot air
• Hot and bothered
• Hot and heavy
• Hot button issue
• Hot chocolate, drinking chocolate - the late, late drink (Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate advertising slogan)
• Hot desking
• Hot diggety dog
• Hot enough for you?
• Hot mess
• Hot money
• Hot n Cold (Katy Perry song)
• Hot off the press
• Hot on the trail
• Hot on your heels
• Hot potato
• Hot property
• Hot pursuit
• Hot shot
• Hot stuff
• Hot swap
• Hot tempered
• Hot ticket
• Hot tip
• Hot to trot
• Hot topic
• Hot under the collar
• I can see you standing over a hot stove, but I can't see the stove (Groucho Marx line)
• In hot water
• Is it hot in here or is it me? (Typically used by menopausal women having a hot flush)
• It Ain't Half Hot Mum (BBC comedy television series)
• Knock back a few
• Like a cat on a hot coals
• Like a cat on a hot tin roof
• Lipton's gets into more hot water than anything (Lipton Tea advertising slogan)
• Man of few words
• Many are called but few are chosen
• Piping hot
• Redd Hot (Nickname of Michael Redd)
• Say a few words
• Selling like hot cakes
• Shit hot
• Smoking hot
• Some Like It Hot (Jack Lemmon / Tony Curtis / Marilyn Monroe movie)
• Strike while the iron is hot
• Take a few deep breaths
• The Hoosier Hot Shot (Nickname of humourist Herb Shriner)
• The Hot Water State (Nickname of the US state of Arkansas)
• The Last of The Red Hot Mommas (Nickname of Sophie Tucker)
• The dogs kids love to bite (Armour Hot Dogs advertising slogan)
• The few, the proud, the Marines (United States Marine Corps advertising slogan)
• The long, hot summer
• To name but a few
• Too hot to handle
• We answer to a higher authority (Hebrew National hot dogs advertising slogan)
• We few, we happy few, we band of brothers (from Henry V by Shakespeare)
• Well, nobody's perfect (line from the movie Some Like It Hot)
• You can't handle the truth (A Few Good Men)