Rank Phrases

Phrases

• 69 position
• A bad break
• A bad quarter of an hour
• Ain't half bad
• An American In Paris (Irving Berlin tune title and Gene Kelly movie)
• Apple pie order
• Bad Intentions (Nickname of boxer Jermain Taylor)
• Bad Moon (Nickname of American football player Andre Rison)
• Bad Romance (Lady Gaga song)
• Bad apple
• Bad blood
• Bad egg
• Bad for your health
• Bad form
• Bad hair day
• Bad hat
• Bad loser
• Bad lot
• Bad money drives out good
• Bad mouthing
• Bad news
• Bad news travels fast
• Bad paper
• Bad penny
• Bad taste in the mouth
• Bad time
• Bad turn
• Ballad of the Green Berets (Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler song)
• Bang out of order
• Base station
• Bearer of bad news
• Big Bad John (Nickname of boxer John McDermott)
• Born Under A Bad Sign (Cream song)
• Born under a bad sign
• Break ranks
• Built to order
• CD quality
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Close ranks
• Congratulations are in order
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Dissention in the ranks
• Do you want the good news or the bad news?
• Doctor, doctor, give me the news, I've got a bad case of loving you (Robert Palmer song lyric)
• Ducks on a pond (A baseball expression meaning having runners in scoring position)
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Fall into bad habits
• Favoured status
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• First among equals (the most senior person in a group of equal rank)
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• From bad to worse
• Gagging order
• Get off to a bad start
• Give a dog a bad name
• Give a dog a bad name and hang him
• Gone to the bad
• Good cop, bad cop
• Got it bad
• Hard cases make bad law
• Hate watch (viewing a television programme in order to mock it)
• Have you ever had a bad time in Levi's? (Levi's Jeans advertising slogan)
• Hey Jude, Don't Make It Bad (The Beatles song lyric)
• Ideas above your station
• In a bad way
• In bad faith
• In bad odour
• In bad taste
• In short order
• In someone's bad books
• In the order of
• It's complicated (Facebook relationship status)
• J Arthur (Cockney rhyming slang for wank)
• Jockeying for position
• Jump the queue
• Keep bad company
• Last one there is a rotten egg
• Law and order
• Leaves a bad taste in the mouth
• Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Letter quality
• Long Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Stop (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mad, bad and dangerous to know
• Mail order bride
• Major league (A baseball expression meaning at the top rank)
• Make the best of a bad job
• Make the grade
• Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Missionary position
• My bad
• Name, rank, and serial number
• Not bad
• On bad terms with
• Order about
• Order in the court
• Order of magnitude
• Order order
• Order up
• Out of order
• Papa Bear Colonel (Nickname of Robert Hogan (Bob Crane))
• Pecking order
• Pole position
• Premium quality
• Puddin' Head (Nickname of Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan))
• Pull rank
• Put your house in order
• Quality control
• Quality is job one (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Quality never goes out of style (Levi's Jeans advertising slogan)
• Quality time
• Rank and file
• Rear admiral (naval rank)
• Rise through the ranks
• Rockin' All Over The World (Status Quo song)
• Rotten to the core
• Rubber chicken (poor quality or overcooked chicken)
• Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
• Saviour sibling (a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease)
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day
• Seven years' bad luck
• Shirtsleeve order
• Short Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Side order
• Silly Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
• Spoiled rotten
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Star quality
• Status quo
• Suck it up (accept a bad situation and move on)
• Suicide is painless (title of the theme song to MASH tv series and film)
• Super Bad (James Brown song)
• Swell the ranks
• Take the good with the bad
• Tall order
• The Best Bad Girl on TV (Nickname of Cloris Leachman)
• The Big Bad (Nickname of William the Bloody (James Marsters))
• The Good The Bad And The Ugly (Clint Eastwood movie)
• The Joy of Sex (Title of 1970s sex manual)
• The Thief of Bad Gags (Nickname of comedian Milton Berle)
• The order of the boot
• The order of the day
• The quality of mercy is not strained (from The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare)
• The station of the nation (Radio Caroline advertising slogan)
• The station of the stars (Radio Luxembourg advertising slogan)
• The wheels on the bus go round and round (title of children's song)
• There's no such thing as bad publicity
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
• This position closed
• Top quality
• Top table
• Twenty Miles Of Bad Road (The Janeys song)
• Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad (Meatloaf song)
• We are professional grade (GMC Truck advertising slogan)
• Weapons grade
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)
• World ranking
• You Give Love A Bad Name (Bon Jovi song)
• Your choice down at Wendy's, where quality is our recipe (Wendy Burgers advertising slogan)