Poppy Phrases

Phrases

• A red rag to a bull
• As red as a beetroot
• Back the field
• Better dead than red
• Big Red (Nickname of basketball player Arvydas Sabonis)
• Boy, is my face red (A catchphrase from David Letterman)
• Brick red
• Cadmium red
• Consider the lilies of the field
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Cut through the red tape
• 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)
• Do you eat the red ones last? (Smarties advertising slogan)
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• Field day
• Fire engine red
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Flower power
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Gives you wings (Red Bull advertising slogan)
• Have a field day
• Hold the field (- remain the most important)
• Hothouse flower
• In Flanders fields the poppies blow (from a poem by McCrae)
• In flower
• In from left field
• In the field
• In the red
• It's a red thing (Tizer advertising slogan)
• Keep the field (- continue a military campaign)
• Lady In Red (Chris de Burgh song)
• Lead the field
• Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Level playing field
• Little Red Corvette (Prince song)
• Little Red Rooster (Rolling Stones song)
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• 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)
• Makes red blood! (Grape-Nuts advertising slogan)
• 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)
• Nature, red in tooth and claw
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Old Red Eyes (Nickname of Alice Cooper)
• On red alert
• Out of left field
• Paint the town red
• Pillar box red
• Play the field (- indulge in a series of sexual relationships)
• Reality distortion field (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Red Baron (Nickname of Rick Sutcliffe)
• Red Buttons (Pseudonym of actor Aaron Chwatt)
• Red Dwarf (BBC comedy television series)
• Red Light Curt (Nickname of Curt Schilling)
• Red River (John Wayne / Howard Hawks movie)
• Red Sails In The Sunset (Al Bowlly song)
• Red Square (tourist attraction in Moscow Russia)
• Red alert
• Red and green should never be seen
• Red carpet treatment
• Red herring
• Red letter day
• Red light district
• Red lorry yellow lorry
• Red red wine
• Red sky at night shepherds delight
• Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning
• Red tape
• Roll out the red carpet
• Roses are red, violets are blue
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• See red
• Send your parcels Red Star and pull out all the stops (Red Star advertising slogan)
• 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)
• Simply Red
• Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast (A catchphrase from Red Dwarf)
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Take the field (begin a sporting event or a military campaign)
• The Adventure of the Red Circle (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Desert Fox (Nickname of Field Marshall Rommel)
• The Last of The Red Hot Mommas (Nickname of Sophie Tucker)
• The Marcel Marceau of Television (Nickname of Red Skelton)
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Red Baron (Nickname of Baron Manfred von Richtofen)
• The Red Fort (tourist attraction in India)
• The Red Rocket (Nickname of Matt Bonner)
• The flower of one's youth
• The greatest tragedy is indifference (Red Cross advertising slogan)
• The red carpet
• The red mist
• The thin red line
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
• To bring the wolves out - Riding Hood Red (Max Factor Cosmetics advertising slogan)
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)
• Your fragrance Your rules (Hugo Boss Deep Red advertising slogan)