Pin 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)
• Another nail in the coffin
• As bright as a new pin
• As neat as a new pin
• At knife point
• At this point in time
• Baby split
• Beside the point
• Cash on the nail
• 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)
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Drive your point home
• Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night (All About Eve)
• Feel 95 point great (Capital FM advertising slogan)
• Fight tooth and nail
• Flash point
• 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
• Gabba gabba hey (A catchphrase from Ramones In Pinhead)
• Get a gold star (earn a merit point for doing well)
• Get straight to the point
• Get the needle
• Get the point
• Hard to pin down
• Hit the nail on the head
• I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (Spike Jones song)
• I told you I was ill (Spike Milligan line inscribed on his gravestone)
• In point of fact
• It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
• Jewel in the crown
• Jumping off point
• King pin
• Like looking for a needle in a haystack
• Like trying to nail jello to a wall
• Moot point
• Nail a lie
• Nail down
• Nail your colours to the mast

• Not to put too fine a point on it
• 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
• Pins and needles
• Point Break (Keanu Reeves movie)
• Point Percy at the porcelain
• Point blank range
• Point duty
• Point of sale
• Point of view
• Point out
• Point the finger
• Point to point
• Press your point home
• Pull the pin
• Screw your courage to the sticking place
• 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
• Silly Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Single point of contact
• Square peg in a round hole
• Sticking point
• Stretch a point
• Take down a peg or two
• Talking point
• The Peg (Nickname of Winnipeg Manitoba)
• The case in point
• The first network for men (Spike TV advertising slogan)
• The point of contact (Sprint advertising slogan)
• The point of no return
• There's a lot of it about (A catchphrase from Spike Milligan)
• Through the eye of a needle
• Tipping point
• Tooth and nail
• What's the point?
• When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
• You could have heard a pin drop
• Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni movie)

Related

• As bright as a new pin
• As neat as a new pin
• Chip and pin
• Hard to pin down
• King pin
• Pin money
• Pin the tail on the donkey
• Pin your ears back
• Pin your hopes on
• Pull the pin
• 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
• You could have heard a pin drop