Police Phrases

Phrases

• Above the law
• Advance guard
• Against the law
• American Patrol (Glenn Miller song)
• As Irish as Paddy's pig
• As fat as a pig
• As happy as a pig in muck
• Black and white
• Bleeding like a stuck pig
• Bow and arrow squad
• Boys in blue
• Brush with the law
• Canteen culture (boorish behaviour by rank and file police or soldiers)
• Cherry top
• Citizen's arrest
• Click it or ticket (United States seat belt law advertising slogan)
• Cold Mountain (Jude Law / Renee Zellweger / Nicole Kidman movie)
• Command and control
• Control freak
• Cop a feel
• Cop a packet
• Cop a plea
• Cop an attitude
• Cop an attitude (adopt an aggressive stance)
• Cop hold of that
• Cop killer
• Cop off
• Cop one
• Cop out
• Cop shop
• Copper bottomed
• Cost control
• Costa Del Crime
• Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky book)
• Crime Dog (Nickname of baseball player Fred McGriff)
• Crime against nature
• Crime doesn't pay
• Crime of passion
• Crowd control
• Cruise control
• Dawn patrol
• Don't Stand So Close To Me (Police song)
• Don't you just love being in control? (British Gas advertising slogan)
• Drop a dime
• Drop your guard
• Eat like a pig
• Evenin' all (A catchphrase from Dixon Of Dock Green)
• Every Breath You Take (The Police song)
• Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (Police song)
• Fall foul of the law
• Federal agent (An employee of a US federal agency)
• Furry crocodile (military slang term for a guard dog)
• Go to law
• Good cop, bad cop
• Guard against
• Hands up if you use Right Guard, Hands down if you don't (Right Guard antiperspirant advertising slogan)
• Hard cases make bad law
• Hello, hello, what's going on here then?
• Helping the police with their enquiries
• Highway Patrol
• His word is law
• I Shot The Sheriff (Eric Clapton song)
• I arrest you in the name of the law
• I fought the law and the law won
• If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
• In a pig's eye
• In the eyes of the law
• It's a fair cop
• Known to the police
• Law abiding
• Law and order
• Law unto oneself
• Lay the law down
• Let the punishment fit the crime
• Let's be careful out there (A catchphrase from Hill Street Blues)

• Like a pig from a gun
• Like a pig in muck
• Lipstick on a pig
• Lose control
• Make a pig of yourself
• Male chauvinist pig
• Mama Bear
• Men in blue
• Message in A Bottle (Police song)
• Mind how you go (A catchphrase from Dixon of Dock Green)
• New York's finest
• Nose for crime
• Not much cop
• Now then now then now then
• Off your guard
• On guard
• On the beat
• One law for the rich and another for the poor
• Out of control
• Outside the law
• Partners in crime
• Pig ignorant
• Pig in a poke
• Pig in the python
• Pig out
• Pig sty
• Pig's ear (Cockney rhyming slang for beer)
• Police state
• Portion control
• Possession is nine tenths of the law
• Quality control
• Radio control
• Resisting arrest
• Rubber bullet (a bullet made of rubber or plastic and used for riot control)
• Serve and protect
• Spiral out of control
• Suckling pig (an unweaned piglet)
• Sweat like a pig
• Take a bite out of crime
• Take a bite out of crime! (National Crime Prevention Council advertising slogan)
• Take someone to law
• Take the law into your own hands
• The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Body Guard (Nickname of Baron Davis)
• The Copper State (Nickname of the US state of Arizona)
• The Flying Squad (Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard)
• The Guinea Pig State (Nickname of the US state of Arkansas)
• The Mountie always gets his man
• The Napoleon of Crime (Nickname of Professor Moriarty)
• The Old Bill
• The Shadow knows (A catchphrase from the crime fighting vigilante)
• The army national guard, you can (US Army National Guard advertising slogan)
• The bobby on the beat
• The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner (9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan)
• The changing of the guard
• The law is an ass
• The law of averages
• The law of diminishing returns
• The law of the jungle
• The law of the land
• The letter of the law
• The long arm of the law
• The perfect crime
• There ought to be a law
• There's no law against it
• Thought police
• To market, to market, to buy a fat pig
• Tom Tom the pipers son stole a pig and away he ran (line from nursery rhyme)
• Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime (Tony Blair political slogan)
• Undercover cop
• Walking On The Moon (The Police song)
• We've got you covered
• You can't top the copper top (Duracell Batteries advertising slogan)
• You'll never take me alive copper
• Yum Yum, pig's bum
• Zero tolerance

Related

• Canteen culture (boorish behaviour by rank and file police or soldiers)
• Don't Stand So Close To Me (Police song)
• Every Breath You Take (The Police song)
• Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (Police song)
• Helping the police with their enquiries
• Known to the police
• Message in A Bottle (Police song)
• Police state
• Thought police
• Walking On The Moon (The Police song)