Pike 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
• As plain as a pikestaff
• Assault with a deadly weapon
• At stake
• Big fish eat little fish
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Bigger fish to fry
• Burned at the stake
• Choose your weapon
• Climb the greasy pole
• Cold fish
• Cry stinking fish
• Different kettle of fish
• Drink like a fish
• 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
• I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole
• I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole
• 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)
• Low man on the totem pole
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Odd fish
• Pole position
• Pretty kettle of fish
• Queer fish
• School of fish
• Secret weapon
• So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
• Spear carrier
• Stake your claim
• The Foul Pole (Nickname of Andrew Golota)
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• Up the pole
• Wet fish
• What does that have to do with the price of fish?