Pit Phrases

Phrases

• A buck well spent (Springmaid Sheets advertising slogan)
• Ace in the hole
• Alive and well
• All's Well, That Ends Well
• An ill-favoured thing sir, but mine own
• Anti personnel mine
• As cold as a well digger's arse
• As well as can be expected
• Augur well
• Bachelor pad
• Back to the salt mine
• Beat hollow
• Bolt hole
• Bottomless pit
• Burn a hole in your pocket
• Didn't they do well! (A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth In The Generation Game)
• Ding dong bell Pussy's in the well (line from nursery rhyme)
• Doesn't know his arse from a hole in the ground
• Exceedingly well read
• Fire in the hole
• Fixing A Hole (Beatles song)
• Flea pit
• Genius bonus (a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed people)
• Get a gold star (earn a merit point for doing well)
• Get well soon
• Glory hole
• Go well Go Shell (Shell advertising slogan)
• Godforsaken hole
• Hail fellow well met
• Hell hole
• Her Honeymoon - and it should have been mine! (Listerine Mouthwash advertising slogan)
• Hole in one
• Hole in the wall
• Hole out
• Hollow eyed
• I Me Mine (The Beatles song)
• I scratch your back and you scratch mine
• If a job is worth doing it is worth doing well
• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself
• In a hole
• In the pit of your stomach
• Just as well
• Keep going well - keep going Shell (Shell advertising slogan)
• Know full well
• Leave well enough alone
• Let well alone
• Living well is the best revenge
• Make mine Moxie (Moxie soda advertising slogan)
• Make mine a double
• Might as well
• Mine host
• Mine is bigger than yours
• Mine of information
• Mosh pit
• Neer do well
• Nineteenth hole
• Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine (Casablanca)
• One may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
• Pit Bull (Nickname of Mike James)
• Pit your wits against
• Poor thing but mine own
• Put the wood in the hole
• Ring hollow
• Shut your cake hole
• Shut your pie hole
• Square peg in a round hole
• Stare into the abyss
• That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine (Gene Autry song)
• That's all well and good
• The Armpit Of California (Nickname of Fresno California)
• The Armpit Of New Jersey (Nickname of Newark New Jersey)
• The Hole in the Wall Gang (Nickname of fictional western outlaw gang)
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• The mint with the hole (Polo Mints advertising slogan)
• The worried well
• Today the pits, tomorrow the wrinkles (Sunsweet Prunes advertising slogan)
• Top hole
• Travel well (Lincoln advertising slogan)
• Victory is mine
• Watering hole
• Well I never
• Well blow me down
• Well endowed
• Well fed
• Well fit
• Well heeled
• Well hung
• Well in with
• Well liked
• Well off
• Well turned calf
• Well turned out
• Well up with
• Well, actually, he forgot Poland
• Well, duh
• Well, nobody's perfect (line from the movie Some Like It Hot)
• Well, she was just seventeen you know what I mean (The Beatles song lyric)
• When you are in a hole, stop digging
• You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart song)
• You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground
• You gotta ask yourself, do I feel lucky, well do ya punk? (Dirty Harry)
• You too can have a body like mine (Charles Atlas advertising slogan)
• Your guess is as good as mine
• Your place or mine?