Picket Phrases

Phrases

• A Whiter Shade Of Pale (Procol Harum song)
• As deaf as a post
• As mad as a march hare
• At stake
• Beware the Ides of March
• Beyond the pale
• Burned at the stake
• Democracy Wall (wall in Bejing China where dissidents post letters poems etc)
• Don't fence me in
• First past the post
• First strike
• Flying picket
• Go out on strike (Withdraw one's labour and leave one's place of work)
• Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)
• If you don't get it, you don't get it (The Washington Post advertising slogan)
• Left right, left right, march
• Lucky Strike means finer tobacco (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• March Of The Penguins (Morgan Freeman movie)
• March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
• March from Bridge on the River Kwai (Mitch Miller song)
• March of time
• March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers
• Mr. March (Nickname of Alex Rodriguez)
• No throat irritation - no cough (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Pale and interesting
• Pale imitation
• Pale into insignificance
• Pale shadow
• Picket fence
• Picket line
• Pipped at the post
• Post early for Christmas (Post Office advertising slogan)
• Post haste
• Post modern

• Post mortem
• Post partum
• Pre-emptive strike
• Pushed from pillar to post
• Rally cap (A baseball expression denoting a cap is a worn inside out or backwards)
• Rally round
• Rally round the flag
• Reach for a Lucky instead of a Sweet (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Sit on the fence
• Sitting on the fence
• So round, so firm, so fully packed (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Somebody somewhere wants a letter from you (British Post Office advertising slogan)
• Stake your claim
• Steal a march
• Strike Up The Band (George Gershwin composition)
• Strike a balance
• Strike a chord with
• Strike a deal (or bargain)
• Strike a light
• Strike a pose
• Strike beard
• Strike it rich
• Strike lucky
• Strike me pink
• Strike out swinging (A baseball expression meaning to fail while giving it your best effort)
• Strike up the band
• Strike while the iron is hot
• The Mad March Hare
• The cheque is in the post
• The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
• The lady doth protest too much, methinks (from Hamlet by Shakespeare)
• There's never a rough puff in a lucky (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• They're toasted (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Under protest
• Winning post