Pool Phrases

Phrases

• A chicken in every pot
• A hewer of wood and a drawer of water
• A pot of gold
• Ahead of the game
• All to pot
• 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)
• Anyone's game
• As game as Ned Kelly
• Basin Street Blues (Louis Armstrong song)
• Beaten at your own game
• Behind the eight ball
• Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Posey)
• Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Worthy)
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Black water rafting
• Blame game
• Blood in the water
• Blood is thicker than water
• Blow out of the water
• Both oars in the water
• Brand new ballgame (A baseball expression meaning when a team that has been behind ties up the game)
• Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel album and song)
• Bring your A game (perform to your best ability)
• Call of Duty (video game title)
• Cat and mouse game
• Clear blue water
• Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral Water in Wild Fruit Flavours (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
• Come hell or high water
• Come on in, the water's fine
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Dead in the water
• 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
• Dip your toe into the water
• Ducks on a pond (A baseball expression meaning having runners in scoring position)
• End of the ball game
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Fair game
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Fish out of water
• Fit a quart into a pint pot
• For the pot
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Fuss pot
• 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 into deep water
• Get into hot water
• Give the game away
• Go and jump in a lake
• Go through fire and water for
• Go to pot
• Golden Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting a player who strikes out four times in a game)
• Gone to pot
• Got game
• Grand Theft Auto (video game title)
• Guessing game
• He doesn't have both oars in the water
• He's fallen in the water (A catchphrase from The Goon Show)
• Here, kitty
• Hit the jackpot
• Hold water
• Home resort
• I'm game
• In deep water
• In hot water
• In the melting pot
• 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
• Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water (line from nursery rhyme)
• Just add water
• Just when you thought it was safe to go back in water (Jaws II advertising tagline)
• Keep the pot boiling
• Keep your head above water
• Kitty corner
• Late in the game
• Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Lift your game
• Like a duck to water
• Like a fish out of water
• Like water off a duck's back
• Lipton's gets into more hot water than anything (Lipton Tea advertising slogan)

• Little fish in a big pond (someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers)
• 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)
• Made to make your mouth water (Opal Fruits advertising slogan)
• Mario Kart (video game title)
• Melting pot
• Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
• 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)
• Mug's game
• Must win game
• Numbers game
• Of the first water
• Oil and water don't mix
• On the game
• Only A Pawn In Their Game (Bob Dylan song)
• Only game in town
• Piss or get off the pot
• Platinum Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting striking out five times in a game)
• Play a waiting game
• Play the game
• Play the percentage game
• Pocket billiards
• Pocket pool
• Pond life
• Pond scum
• Pot head
• Pot luck
• Pour cold water on
• Primal Rage (film and video game)
• Pure life (Nestle Aberfoyle Natural Spring Water advertising slogan)
• Put your game face on
• Raise your game
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Shallow end
• Shell game
• Shit or get off the pot
• 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)
• 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
• Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
• Sod this for a game of soldiers
• Sonic the Hedgehog (video game title)
• Spend money like water
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Stir the pot
• Super Mario Brothers (video game title)
• Take a bath in the dark tonight and let the water make love to your skin (Lavin Perfumes & Soaps advertising slogan)
• Take a pot shot at
• Take me out to the ball game
• Talk a good game
• Test the water
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• The Big Pond (nickname of the Atlantic Ocean between the UK and the USA)
• The Dowager Queen of the Game Shows (Nickname of Pat Carroll)
• The Great Lake State (Nickname of the US state of Michigan)
• The Hot Water State (Nickname of the US state of Arkansas)
• The Mistake On The Lake (Nickname of Cleveland Ohio)
• The Sims (video game title)
• The beautiful game
• The blame game
• The deep end
• The game is afoot
• The game is up
• The name game
• The name of the game
• The pot calling the kettle black
• The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
• Throw cold water on
• Tonic water by you know who (Schweppes advertising slogan)
• Toss pot
• Trap and ball (children's ball game)
• Two can play at that game
• Two pot screamer
• Up your game
• Walk on water
• War game (a simulation of war intended as preparation)
• Wash your mouth out with soap and water
• Watched pot never boils
• Water down
• Water of life
• Water seeks its own level
• Water under the bridge
• Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink
• What's your game?
• White water rafting
• Who are you? (Nintendo Game Boy Advance advertising slogan)
• Whole new ball game
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)
• You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink
• Zero sum game