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A list of phrases related to the word "gunpowder"...
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A bigger
bang
for your buck
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At the end of a
gun
Ban the
bomb
Bang
goes nothing
Bang
on
Bang
on about
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Bang
out of order
Bang
to rights
Bang
your head against a brick wall
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head ( The Beatles song lyric )
Barrel
load of laughs
Barrel
load of monkeys
Barrel
of laughs
Big
bang
Buy a bucket of chicken and have a
barrel
of fun ( Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan )
Cannon
fodder
Captain Underpants And The Perilous
Plot
Of Professor Poopypants ( Dav Pilkey book )
Chew a
gun
Crazy
Gun
Barney ( Nickname of Barney Fife ( Don Knotts ) )
Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The
Bomb
( Peter Sellers movie )
False jeopardy (
plot
device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm )
Father of The Atomic
Bomb
( Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer )
Gang
bang
Get a
bang
out of something
Give it the
gun
Go with a
bang
Gun
down
Gunpowder
treason
and
plot
( line from nursery rhyme )
Happiness Is A Warm
Gun
( The Beatles song )
Have gun, will travel ( A catchphrase from TV series )
High
treason
Hold a
gun
to his head
Hold it up to the light, not a stain and shining light ( Surf Washing
Powder
advertising slogan )
If it's got to be clean, it's got to be Tide ( Tide Washing
Powder
advertising slogan )
Is that a
gun
in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
Jump the
gun
Keep your
powder
dry
Leave the gun, take the cannoli ( line from The Godfather )
Letter
bomb
Like a pig from a
gun
Like shooting fish in a
barrel
Lock stock and
barrel
Looks like a
bomb
has hit it
Loose
cannon
Lose the
plot
Lost the
plot
Machine
Gun
Kelly ( Nickname of George Kelly )
More
bang
for your buck
Mother Superior jumped the
gun
( Beatles song lyric )
Not with a
bang
but a whimper ( from a poem by Eliot )
Not with a
bang
but with a whimper
Omo adds brightness to whiteness ( Omo washing
powder
advertising slogan )
Over a
barrel
Pearline keeps white things white and bright women bright ( Pearline washing
powder
advertising slogan )
Pork
barrel
politics
Pork
barrel
spending
Powder
room
Powder
your nose
Put a
gun
to your head
Put your trust in God, and keep your
powder
dry
Scraping the bottom of the
barrel
See how they run like pigs from a
gun
( The Beatles song lyric )
Slap
bang
in the middle
Smoking
gun
Son of a
gun
Take a
powder
The Cajun
Cannon
( Nickname of Bobby Hebert )
The Fast
Gun
From Texas ( Nickname of Dan Troop ( John Russell ) )
The
Gun
That Won The West ( Nickname of the Colt revolver )
The Man With The Golden
Gun
( James Bond movie Roger Moore )
The Polish
Cannon
( Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski )
The
plot
thickens
Tide's in, dirt's out ( Tide Washing
Powder
advertising slogan )
Under the
gun
Weather
bomb
( a rapidly deepening low pressure area causing severe storms )