Pop Phrases

Phrases

• A Bicycle Built For Two (Victorian popular song)
• A big shot
• A bigger bang for your buck
• Air shot
• Baby father
• Bang goes nothing
• Bang on
• Bang on about
• Bang out of order
• Bang to rights
• Bang your head against a brick wall
• Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head (The Beatles song lyric)
• Bernie, the bolt (A catchphrase from The Golden Shot)
• Big Shot Becky (Nickname of basketball player Becky Hammon)
• Big Shot Bob (Nickname of basketball player Robert Horry)
• Big bang
• Big shot
• Body popping
• Booster shot
• Cake pop (A small piece of cake coated with chocolate)
• Can You Feel The Love Tonight? (Elton John song)
• Cheap shot
• Come to papa
• Contrary to popular opinion
• Cool Papa (Nickname of baseball player James Bell)
• Cuckoo for Coco Pops (Coco Pops advertising slogan)
• Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Elton John song)
• Drink, feck, arse (A catchphrase from Father Ted)
• Ear popping (a sound that is loud or that catches the attention)
• Eye popping
• Father Knows Best (American TV Show)
• Father Of The Bride (Steve Martin movie)
• Father Ted (BBC comedy television series)
• Father of The Atomic Bomb (Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer)
• Founding father
• Full fathom five thy father lies (from The Tempest by Shakespeare)
• Gang bang
• Get a bang out of something
• Get busy with the fizzy (Soda Stream advertising slogan)
• Get shot of
• Give it your best shot
• Go with a bang
• Gotta have my pops! (Corn Pops advertising slogan)
• Have a shot at
• He shot through like a Bondi tram
• High season (the most popular time to visit a resort or attraction - when prices are highest)
• His father's son
• Honour thy father and mother
• Hot shot
• How's your father
• I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues (Elton John song)
• I Shot The Sheriff (Eric Clapton song)
• I'd rather have a bowl of Coco Pops (Coco Pops advertising slogan)
• Just a glint in his father's eye
• Just like a chocolate milkshake, only crunchy (Coco Pops advertising slogan)
• Like a shot
• Like father, like son
• Little Sure Shot (Nickname of Annie Oakley)
• Long shot

• Mail shot
• Make mine Moxie (Moxie soda advertising slogan)
• Mom and Pop
• More bang for your buck
• Mr. Big Shot (Nickname of Chauncey Billups)
• Murder On The Dance Floor (Sophie Ellis-Bexter song)
• Not by a long shot
• Not with a bang but a whimper (from a poem by Eliot)
• Not with a bang but with a whimper
• Once you pop you can't stop (Pringles advertising slogan)
• Only A Pawn In Their Game (Bob Dylan song)
• Our father who art in heaven
• Papa Bear (Nickname of George Halas)
• Papa Bear Colonel (Nickname of Robert Hogan (Bob Crane))
• Papa Doc (Nickname of Francois Duvalier)
• Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown song)
• Papa? Nicole? (Renault Clio advertising slogan)
• Parting shot
• Perfect shot
• Petit Papa No�l (Tino Rossi song)
• Pop art
• Pop goes the weasel
• Pop off
• Pop someone's cherry
• Pop the question
• Pop your clogs
• Popular front
• Popular music
• Santa's Little Helpers (allusion to the elves that help Father Christmas)
• Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
• Shot across the bows
• Shot in the arm
• Shot in the dark
• Shot to hell
• Shot while trying to escape
• Slap bang in the middle
• Snap, Crackle, and Pop (Kellogg's Rice Krispies advertising slogan)
• Sweet as the moment when the pod went 'pop' (Birds Eye Peas advertising slogan)
• Take a pop at
• Take a pot shot at
• The Bitch Is Back (Elton John song)
• The Hoosier Hot Shot (Nickname of humourist Herb Shriner)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (James Stewart / John Wayne movie)
• The Sash My Father Wore (Irish traditional song)
• The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
• The boy is father to the man
• The cereal that's shot from guns! (Quaker Puffed Wheat advertising slogan)
• The child is father of the man (from a poem by Wordsworth)
• The money shot
• The only 'sauce' I dare give Father (Burma Sauce advertising slogan)
• The sash my father wore
• The shot heard around the world
• The wish is father to the thought
• This is Not Your Father's Oldsmobile (Oldsmobile advertising slogan)
• Tonic water by you know who (Schweppes advertising slogan)
• Too pooped to pop
• Top of the pops
• Vox pop
• You'll get shot

Related

• Cake pop (A small piece of cake coated with chocolate)
• Mom and Pop
• Once you pop you can't stop (Pringles advertising slogan)
• Pop art
• Pop goes the weasel
• Pop off
• Pop someone's cherry
• Pop the question
• Pop your clogs
• Snap, Crackle, and Pop (Kellogg's Rice Krispies advertising slogan)
• Sweet as the moment when the pod went 'pop' (Birds Eye Peas advertising slogan)
• Take a pop at
• The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
• Too pooped to pop
• Vox pop