Pole Phrases

Phrases

• A stick to beat you with
• All over bar the shouting
• As deaf as a post
• At stake
• Babe magnet
• Ballad of the Green Berets (Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler song)
• Bar fly
• Bar none
• Beanpole family
• Belly up to the bar
• Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
• Bounty - the taste of paradise (Bounty candy bar advertising slogan)
• Burned at the stake
• Cancer stick
• Carrot and stick
• Chick magnet
• Chief of staff
• Climb the greasy pole
• Democracy Wall (wall in Bejing China where dissidents post letters poems etc)
• Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? (Rod Stewart song)
• Dropped off the perch
• Ee bar gum
• Every stick has two ends
• Fanny magnet
• First past the post
• Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
• Give me a break! Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar! (Kit Kat chocolate advertising slogan)
• He Hate Me (Nickname of American football player Rod Smart)
• Hershey, the great American chocolate bar (Hershey Chocolate advertising slogan)
• Hit by the stupid stick
• Hit the bar
• Hot Rod (Nickname of basketball player Rodney Hundley)
• I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole
• I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole
• If you don't get it, you don't get it (The Washington Post advertising slogan)
• In The Heat Of The Night (Sidney Poitier / Rod Steiger)
• In a cleft stick
• Katy bar the door
• Low man on the totem pole
• Maggie Mae (Rod Stewart song)
• Make a rod for your own back
• More than you can shake a stick at
• Pipped at the post
• Pole position
• Post early for Christmas (Post Office advertising slogan)
• Post haste
• Post modern
• Post mortem
• Post partum
• Prop up the bar
• Pushed from pillar to post
• Raise the bar
• Raising the bar (Cingular Wireless advertising slogan)
• Rule with a rod of iron
• Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes
• Shit (or short) end of the stick
• Short end of the stick
• Skeleton staff
• Somebody somewhere wants a letter from you (British Post Office advertising slogan)
• Spare the rod and spoil the child
• Speak softly and carry a big stick
• Staff of life
• Stake your claim
• Stick fingers
• Stick in the mud
• Stick it to the man
• Stick to you like glue
• Stick to your guns
• Stick to your knitting
• Stick with me, kid
• Stick your chin out
• Stick your neck out
• The Duchy Of Underground Orange (Nickname of Poznan Poland)
• The First Cut Is The Deepest (Rod Stewart song)
• The Foul Pole (Nickname of Andrew Golota)
• The Kingdom Of Potatoes (Nickname of Poznan Poland)
• The Paris Of The North (Nickname of Warsaw Poland)
• The cheque is in the post
• The cobbler should stick to his last
• The shit end of the stick
• The short end of the stick
• There's a smile in every Hershey Bar (Hershey chocolate advertising slogan)
• Throw enough dirt and some will stick
• Up the pole
• Well, actually, he forgot Poland
• What would you do for a Klondike Bar? (Klondike chocolate advertising slogan)
• Where's your white stick referee?
• Winning post
• You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart song)