Poker Phrases

Phrases

• A face as long as a fiddle
• A face like a Greek god
• A great face for radio
• About face
• Access - your flexible friend (Access Credit Card advertising slogan)
• Access takes the waiting out of wanting (Access Credit Card advertising slogan)
• Ace in the hole
• 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)
• And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
• Angel face
• Anyone's game
• Arse about face
• As game as Ned Kelly
• As plain as the nose on your face
• As stiff as a poker
• At face value
• Baby face
• Baseball card
• Beaten at your own game
• Bet on a lame rooster
• Bet the ranch
• Bet you can't eat three (Shredded Wheat advertising slogan)
• Bet your boots
• Bet your bottom dollar
• Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Posey)
• Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Worthy)
• Bitch slap (a full swing slap in the face intended to be humiliating)
• Blame game
• Blue in the face
• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• Body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch
• Boy, is my face red (A catchphrase from David Letterman)
• 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)
• Butter Face
• Call of Duty (video game title)
• Calling card
• Card sharp
• Card up his sleeve
• Cat and mouse game
• Chew face
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• 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
• Does you does, or does you don't take Access? (Access Credit Card advertising slogan)
• Don't bet on it
• Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
• Don't get a face on
• Each way bet
• Eat face
• Egg on your face
• End of the ball game
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Face card (the jack queeen or king in a set of playing cards)
• Face down
• Face facts
• Face fungus
• Face in the crowd
• Face lift
• Face like a bulldog chewing a wasp
• Face like a fiddle
• Face like an unmade bed
• Face like the back of a bus
• Face like thunder
• Face off
• Face palm moment
• Face recognition)
• Face that could stop a clock
• Face that only a mother could love
• Face the competition
• Face the music
• Face the truth
• Face time
• Face your maker
• Fair game
• Fall flat on your face
• Ferret face (Nickname of Major Frank Burns (Larry Linville))
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Fly in the face of the evidence
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Frog face
• 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 out of jail free card (a means of avoiding justice - from the eponymous card in the Monopoly boardgame)
• Get out of my face
• Give the game away
• Golden Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting a player who strikes out four times in a game)
• Good bet
• Got game
• Grand Theft Auto (video game title)
• Guessing game
• Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid (Fairy Liquid advertising slogan)
• Have your card marked
• Her face lit up
• I bet he drinks Carling Black Label (Carling Black Label advertising slogan)
• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception (Groucho Marx line)
• I'm game
• If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face (Carl's Jr advertising slogan)
• If life were like that, you wouldn't need a VISA card (VISA advertising slogan)
• If your face fits
• In your face
• 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
• It's written all over your face
• Keep a straight face
• Kick sand in his face
• Late in the game
• Laugh in your face
• Laugh on the wrong side of your face
• Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Let's face it
• Let's face the music and dance
• Lift your game
• 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)
• Long face
• Lose face
• Mace your face
• Make a face
• Makes sensible buying simple (Access Credit Card advertising slogan)
• Mario Kart (video game title)
• Mark your card
• 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)
• Monstrous carbuncle on the face of an old friend (Prince Charles quotation)
• Mug's game
• Must win game
• Not just a pretty face
• Numbers game
• Off your face
• On the face of it
• On the face of the earth
• On the game
• One card for home and abroad (Maestro advertising slogan)
• Only A Pawn In Their Game (Bob Dylan song)
• Only game in town
• Pass the buck
• Pick a card, any card
• Pizza face
• Platinum Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting striking out five times in a game)
• Play a waiting game
• Play kissy face
• Play the game
• Play the percentage game
• Play the race card
• Poker Face (Lady Gaga song)
• Poker face
• Portrait painting (a form of painting in which the human face is the subject)
• Primal Rage (film and video game)
• Pull a face
• Put a brave face on
• Put your game face on
• Raise your game
• Real card
• Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
• Safe bet
• Save face
• Say the magic word and win $100 dollars (A catchphrase from Groucho Marx In You Bet Your Life)
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• See the face you love light up with Terry's All Gold (Terrys Chocolates advertising slogan)
• Set your face against something
• 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)
• Shut your face
• 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)
• Skin in the game
• Slap in the face
• Sod this for a game of soldiers
• Sonic the Hedgehog (video game title)
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Stuff your face
• Suck face (slang term for kissing)
• Super Mario Brothers (video game title)
• Sure bet
• Take a gamble
• Take me out to the ball game
• Talk a good game
• Texas holdem'
• The Adventure of the Yellow Face (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• The Dowager Queen of the Game Shows (Nickname of Pat Carroll)
• The Face (Nickname of Lt.Templeton Peck (Dirk Benedict))
• The Sims (video game title)
• The answer is staring you in the face
• The beautiful game
• The blame game
• The chips are down
• The face that launched a thousand ships
• The game is afoot
• The game is up
• The name game
• The name of the game
• The unacceptable face of capitalism
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
• Throw it back in your face
• Trap and ball (children's ball game)
• Trench warfare (combat where troops face each other in trenches)
• Two can play at that game
• Up your game
• Visa's Delta blow to cheques (Visa Delta Debit Card advertising slogan)
• Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door (Beatles song lyric)
• War game (a simulation of war intended as preparation)
• What's your game?
• Who are you? (Nintendo Game Boy Advance advertising slogan)
• Whole new ball game
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)
• Wipe the smile off your face
• Wipe your face
• You bet your boots
• You bet your britches
• You bet your sweet bippy (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
• Your best bet
• Your best bet for a fuller flavour (Carling Black Label advertising slogan)
• Zero sum game