Ploy Phrases

Phrases

• A better idea (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Bat the idea around
• Booby trap
• Bright idea
• Captain Underpants And The Perilous Plot Of Professor Poopypants (Dav Pilkey book)
• Death trap
• Does the trick
• Every trick in the book
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• Ford has a better idea (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Fox trap
• Germ of an idea

• Gunpowder treason and plot (line from nursery rhyme)
• Honey trap
• Idea whose time has come
• Keep your trap shut
• Lose the plot
• Lost the plot
• Never misses a trick
• One trick pony
• Pony and trap (Cockney rhyming slang for crap)
• Put across an idea
• Shut your trap
• Surely the best tactic (Tic Tac Candy advertising slogan)

• The Indian rope trick
• The Parent Trap (Hayley Mills movie)
• The Tender Trap (Frank Sinatra movie)
• The plot thickens
• The spark of an idea
• Tourist trap
• Trap and ball (children's ball game)
• Trick of the light
• Trick or treat
• Turn a trick
• Warm to the idea
• What's the big idea?