Racket Phrases

Phrases

• A nod is as good as a wink to a blind bat (A line from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• As blind as a bat
• At sixty miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock (Rolls Royce advertising slogan)
• Bat Masterson (Nickname of American western character William Barclay Masterson)
• Bat Out Of Hell (Meatloaf song)
• Bat from the pavilion end (slang term for a homosexual)
• Bat the breeze
• Bat the idea around
• Bat your eyes
• Big noise
• Carrying his bat
• Cellarful of noise
• Does the trick
• Don't get your balls in an uproar
• Empty vessels make the most noise
• Every trick in the book
• Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
• I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by (Douglas Adams quotation)
• It's the empty can that makes the most noise
• Keep a straight bat
• Like a bat out of hell
• Make a scene (causing a disturbance)
• Make some noise
• Muscle in on
• Never misses a trick
• Off you own bat
• One trick pony
• Pat the Bat (Nickname of Pat Burrell)
• Right off the bat (A baseball expression meaning immediately without delay)
• Signal to noise ratio
• The Indian rope trick
• The sound of leather on willow (sound of the ball on the bat in cricket)
• Trick of the light
• Trick or treat
• Turn a trick
• White noise
• You're a better man than I Gunga Din