Pinch Phrases

Phrases

• A bit missing
• A bit much
• A bit of a do
• A bit of a porridge
• A bit off
• A bit previous
• A bit thick
• A minty bit stronger (Trebor Mints advertising slogan)
• At a pinch
• Beg, borrow or steal
• Bit by bit
• Bit of alright
• Bit of fluff
• Bit of rough
• Bit of skirt
• Bit of stuff
• Bit on the side
• Bit player
• Champ at the bit
• Citizen's arrest
• Do your bit
• Doesn't make a blind bit of difference
• Everything you want from a store and a little bit more (Safeway Supermarkets advertising slogan)
• Feel a bit put out
• Feel the pinch
• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
• Get the bit between your teeth
• Gregory Peck (Cockney rhyming slang for neck)
• Hair of the dog that bit you
• Half inch (Cockney rhyming slang for pinch)
• I arrest you in the name of the law
• I'm a little bit wooooor, a little bit waaaaaaaaaayy, I'm a geezer! (A catchphrase from Chris The Crafty Cockney In The Fast Show)
• It's a steal
• Nip and tuck

• Nip in the bud
• Nip slip (the inadvertent exposure of a woman's nipple)
• Northern Exposure (Rob Morrow movie)
• Not a bit of it
• Penny pinching
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper
• Pinch hit (A baseball expression denoting a substitute or stand-in)
• Pinch yourself
• Pinch, punch, first of the month
• Resisting arrest
• Rob Peter to pay Paul
• Rob Roy (Nickname of Robert MacGregor)
• Rob someone blind
• Robo Sack (Nickname of Rob Johnson)
• Serious bit of kit
• Steal a glance
• Steal a kiss
• Steal a march
• Steal someone's heart
• Steal someone's thunder
• Steal the scene
• Steal the show
• Steal third base
• Take the bit between your teeth
• Take with a pinch of salt
• The Crab (Nickname of Ray Wilkins)
• The Face (Nickname of Lt.Templeton Peck (Dirk Benedict))
• The Guns Of Navarone (Gregory Peck / David Niven movie)
• The Time (Dirty Bit) (The Black Eyed Peas song)
• The biter bit
• There's a nip in the air
• To Kill A Mockingbird (Gregory Peck movie)
• We rob banks (Bonnie and Clyde)
• You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife (Country Life butter advertising slogan)