Porthole Phrases

Phrases

• Abandon ship
• Ace in the hole
• Any port in a storm
• Bolt hole
• Burn a hole in your pocket
• Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? (Bob Dylan song)
• Doesn't know his arse from a hole in the ground
• Don't give up the ship (Cutty Sark Whisky advertising slogan)
• Don't spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of tar
• Fire in the hole
• Fixing A Hole (Beatles song)
• Glory hole
• Go down with the ship
• Godforsaken hole
• Hell hole
• Hole in one
• Hole in the wall
• Hole out
• In a hole
• Jump ship
• Like rats leaving a sinking ship
• Mother ship
• My ship has come in
• Nineteenth hole
• Out the window
• POSH - Port out, starboard home (false attribution of the origin of the word posh)
• Put the wood in the hole
• Rear Window (James Stewart / Alfred Hitchcock movie)
• Run a tight ship
• Shape up or ship out
• She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (The Beatles song)
• Ship of fools
• Ship shape and Bristol fashion
• Ship to shore
• Shut your cake hole
• Shut your pie hole
• Square peg in a round hole
• That ship has sailed
• The Big Ship Sails on The Ally-Ally-Oh (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Hole in the Wall Gang (Nickname of fictional western outlaw gang)
• The mint with the hole (Polo Mints advertising slogan)
• Top hole
• Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door (Beatles song lyric)
• Watering hole
• When you are in a hole, stop digging
• Window dressing
• Window licker
• Window of opportunity
• Window on the world
• Window shopping
• You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground