Pluck Phrases

Phrases

• A bone to pick
• Always pick Flowers (Flowers Fine Ales advertising slogan)
• Bone to pick with you
• British Steel, British mettle (British Steel advertising slogan)
• But screw your courage to the sticking-place
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Louis de Bernieres book)
• Cherry pick
• Courage of your convictions
• Dutch courage
• Five, six, pick up sticks (line from nursery rhyme)
• Have a bone to pick
• It's what your right arm's for (Courage Beer advertising slogan)
• Lose your nerve
• Mother Courage (play by Bertolt Brecht)
• Nerve centre
• Open the box (A catchphrase from Take Your Pick)
• P.P.Pick up a Penguin (United Biscuits advertising slogan)
• Pick a card, any card
• Pick a fight
• Pick and choose
• Pick holes in
• Pick me up
• Pick nits
• Pick of the bunch
• Pick of the litter
• Pick off
• Pick on
• Pick the bones out of that
• Pick up the gauntlet
• Pick up the pieces
• Pick up the reins
• Pick up the tab
• Pick up your marbles and go home
• Pick your brains
• Pluck up your courage
• Screw your courage to the sticking place
• See a penny and pick it up
• 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
• Strain every nerve
• Take courage (Courage Beer advertising slogan)
• Take your pick
• Touched a nerve
• We pick you up (Enterprise Car Rental advertising slogan)
• What a nerve
• While in Europe, pick up an ugly European (Volkswagen advertising slogan)