Rake Phrases

Phrases

• As skinny as a rake
• As thin as a rake
• Bow and scrape
• Bucket and spade holiday
• Call a spade a shovel
• Call a spade a spade
• Can you dig it?
• Dig 'em! (Sugar Smacks advertising slogan)
• Dig A Pony (Beatles song)
• Dig deep

• Dig for victory (WWII slogan)
• Dig in the ribs
• Dig this
• Dig up the dirt
• Dig your heels in
• Dig your own grave
• Digging the dancing queen (ABBA lyric)
• Get into a scrape
• Ladies' man
• Lay it on with a trowel

• Muck raking
• Playboy of the Western World (play by John Millington Synge)
• Rake in the money
• Rake it in
• Rake over the ashes
• Rake over the coals
• Scrape a living
• Spade work
• The right tool for the job
• Tool around