Pinball Phrases

Phrases

• Address the ball (golfing term denoting readiness to play)
• After the ball was over
• Ahead of the game
• All your base are belong to us (broken English phrase used in the video game Zero Wing)
• America's Oldest Living Teenager (Nickname of game show host Dick Clark)
• Anyone's game
• As bright as a new pin
• As game as Ned Kelly
• As neat as a new pin
• At full tilt
• Ball achingly good
• Ball and chain
• Ball of fire
• Beaten at your own game
• Behind the eight ball
• Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Posey)
• Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Worthy)
• Blame game
• Brand new ballgame (A baseball expression meaning when a team that has been behind ties up the game)
• Bring your A game (perform to your best ability)
• Call of Duty (video game title)
• Can of corn (A baseball expression meaning a ball which is easy to catch)
• Carry the ball
• Cat and mouse game
• Chip and pin
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Crimson and Clover (Tommy James and the Shondells song)
• Curve ball (a difficult proposition - deriving from baseball terminology)
• Deep Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Didn't they do well! (A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth In The Generation Game)
• Different ball game
• Dream machine
• Drop the ball
• End of the ball game
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Fair game
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Friend of Dorothy (slang term for a homosexual, referring to Judy Garland's character in The Wizard of Oz)
• Full tilt
• Game bird
• Game brain
• Game changer
• Game of two halves
• Game on
• Game over
• Game plan
• Game set and match
• Game time
• Game to the last
• Get the ball rolling
• Give the game away
• Golden Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting a player who strikes out four times in a game)
• Got game
• Grand Theft Auto (video game title)
• Ground ball (A baseball expression meaning a prosaic or ordinary accomplishment)
• Guessing game
• Half A Sixpence (Tommy Steele song)
• Hard to pin down
• Have a ball
• Have the ball at your feet
• High ball
• I'm game
• It's in the game (EA Sports advertising slogan)
• It's just a game
• It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game
• It's only a game
• Just like that (A catchphrase from Tommy Cooper)
• Keep the ball rolling
• Keep your eye on the ball
• King pin
• Knock the cover off the ball (A baseball expression meaning succeed beyond expectation)
• Late in the game
• Lean mean fighting machine
• Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Lift your game
• Little Tommy Tucker sings for his supper (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little White Bull (Tommy Steele song)
• Long Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Stop (field position in the game of cricket)
• Machine Gun Kelly (Nickname of George Kelly)
• Machine readable

• Mario Kart (video game title)
• Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mug's game
• Must win game
• Numbers game
• On the ball
• On the game
• Only A Pawn In Their Game (Bob Dylan song)
• Only game in town
• Pin money
• Pin the tail on the donkey
• Pin your ears back
• Pin your hopes on
• Platinum Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting striking out five times in a game)
• Play a waiting game
• Play ball
• Play the game
• Play the percentage game
• Primal Rage (film and video game)
• Pull the pin
• Put your game face on
• Rage against the machine
• Raise your game
• Rock With The Caveman (Tommy Steele song)
• Run with the ball
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• 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
• Sex machine
• Shell game
• Short Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Singing The Blues (Tommy Steele song)
• Skin in the game
• Sod this for a game of soldiers
• Sonic the Hedgehog (video game title)
• Spot the ball
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Start the ball rolling
• Super Mario Brothers (video game title)
• Take me out to the ball game
• Talk a good game
• That's the way the ball bounces
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• The Dowager Queen of the Game Shows (Nickname of Pat Carroll)
• The Ghost In The Machine (Arthur Koestler book)
• The Head Ball Coach (Nickname of Steve Spurrier)
• The Machine (Nickname of Sasha Vujacic)
• The Ol' Ball Coach (Nickname of Steve Spurrier)
• The Queen of TV Comedy (Nickname of comedienne Lucille Ball)
• The Sims (video game title)
• The Welsh Wizard (Nickname of David Lloyd George)
• The Welsh Wizard (Nickname of Ryan Giggs)
• The Wizard Of Oz (Judy Garland movie)
• The Wizard of Dribble (Nickname of Sir Stanley Matthews)
• The Wizard of Oz (Nickname of Ozzie Smith)
• The ball is in your court
• The beautiful game
• The belle of the ball
• The blame game
• The game is afoot
• The game is up
• The name game
• The name of the game
• The old ball and chain
• The sound of leather on willow (sound of the ball on the bat in cricket)
• The ultimate driving machine (BMW advertising slogan)
• The way the ball bounces
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
• Tommy America (Nickname of Tom Brady)
• Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore (The Wizard of Oz)
• Trap and ball (children's ball game)
• Two can play at that game
• Two-Minute Tommy (Nickname of Tommy Kramer)
• Up your game
• War game (a simulation of war intended as preparation)
• We're off to see the wizard
• What's your game?
• Who are you? (Nintendo Game Boy Advance advertising slogan)
• Whole ball of wax
• Whole new ball game
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)
• You could have heard a pin drop
• Zero sum game