Punish Phrases

Phrases

• A fine line
• Always pick Flowers (Flowers Fine Ales advertising slogan)
• As fine as frog's hair
• Beat the living crap out of
• Beat the living daylights out of
• Beat the living snot out of
• Bust someone's ass
• Carrot and stick
• Chance would be a fine thing
• Chew someone's ass
• Come down hard on
• Come down on someone like a ton of bricks
• Complex sentence (a sentence containing subordinate clauses)
• Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky book)
• Cruel and unusual punishment
• Cut it fine
• Damn fine coffee (A catchphrase from Twin Peaks)
• Deep Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Dress down
• Dust your pants
• Fine and dandy
• Fine dining
• Fine feathered
• Fine figure of a man
• Fine figure of a woman
• Fine words butter no parsnips
• Give someone a thick ear
• Glutton for punishment

• Go through with a fine toothed comb
• Got it down to a fine art
• Haul over the coals
• Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into (A catchphrase from Laurel And Hardy)
• I Feel Fine (Beatles song)
• In fine fettle
• In fine form
• Let the punishment fit the crime
• Make an example of
• Marriage isn't a word it's a sentence
• Mete out punishment
• Mop the floor with
• Not to put too fine a point on it
• One fine day
• Pass sentence
• Rain before seven, fine before eleven
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rub your nose in it
• Short Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Smack on the wrist
• Sucker for punishment
• Take your lumps
• Tear off a strip
• The English summer: three fine days and a thunderstorm
• The Naughty Corner
• The silent treatment
• Ticked off
• Treading a fine line
• Twist the knife