Prison Phrases

Phrases

• A prisoner of conscience
• A slip of the pen
• As black as Newgate's knocker
• Bean Burrito (Nickname of basketball player Nick Young)
• Birdman Of Alcatraz (Burt Lancaster movie)
• Cell division (biology)
• Cool your heels
• Cooler heads will prevail
• Criminal stupidity
• Detained at Her Majesty's pleasure
• Dip your pen in gall
• Don't have nightmares (A catchphrase from Nick Ross)
• Drunk tank
• Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash song)
• Get out of jail free
• Get out of jail free card (a means of avoiding justice - from the eponymous card in the Monopoly boardgame)
• Go directly to jail, do not pass go
• Go over the wall
• Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (J. K. Rowling book)
• I fought the law and the law won
• In good nick
• In the nick of time
• In the slammer
• It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it (A catchphrase from Nick Stone In Tightrope)
• Jail bait
• Jail bird
• Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley song)
• Jonnies out of jail
• Keep behind bars
• Nick at Night (Nickname of Nick Van Exel)
• Nick is for kids (Nickelodeon TV channel advertising slogan)
• Nick the Quick (Nickname of Nick Van Exel)
• Number Six (Pseudonym of Peter Smith The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan))
• Old lag
• On death row
• Pay your debt to society
• Pen and ink (Cockney rhyming slang for stink)
• Poison pen letter
• Prison works
• Put pen to paper
• Send down
• Serve your time
• Short sharp shock
• The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Biscuit (Nickname of John Cage (Peter MacNicol))
• The Prisoner's Song (Vernon Dalhart song)
• The Tower of London (tourist attraction in England)
• The inmates are running the asylum
• The pen is mightier than sword
• Under lock and key
• War criminal (someone who has flouted the Geneva Convention)
• Who rattled your cage?