Rope Phrases

Phrases

• A String Of Pearls (Glenn Miller tune)
• Alexander's Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin song)
• And The Band Played On (Randy Shilts book)
• And the band played on
• At the end of your rope
• At the end of your tether
• Band of brothers
• Beat the band
• Black tie
• Bound hand and foot
• Cable ready
• Citizen band radio
• Cut the Gordian knot
• Cut the cord
• Cut the umbilical cord
• Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid song)
• Don't get your knickers in a knot
• Don't give a hang
• Gallows humour
• Garage band
• Gastric band (A device surgically inserted around the stomach intended to reduce appetite)
• Get the hang of it
• Get to the end of your tether
• Give a dog a bad name and hang him
• Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself
• Give him enough rope and he'll hang himself
• Got the world on a string
• Hang a left
• Hang a right
• Hang about
• Hang around with
• Hang back
• Hang by the neck until dead
• Hang fire
• Hang him out to dry
• Hang in there
• Hang loose
• Hang on
• Hang on a minute
• Hang on by your fingertips
• Hang on every word
• Hang on for dear life
• Hang on like grim death
• Hang on to your shirt tails
• Hang out
• Hang out with

• Hang out your shingle
• Hang ten
• Hang time
• Hang tough
• Hang up your boots
• Hang up your hat
• Hang up your sword
• Hang your hat on
• Hang your head
• Have a second string to your bow have
• How long is a piece of string?
• It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play (Beatles song lyric)
• Jump rope
• Know the ropes
• Learn the ropes
• Let it all hang out
• Like a puppet on a string
• Money for old rope
• More than one string to your bow
• Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish (Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band song)
• Old school tie
• On the ropes
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Rope in
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles album and song)
• Show the ropes
• Shuffle off this mortal coil
• Sleep tight
• Smell the Glove (fictional album by the spoof heavy-metal band Spinal Tap)
• Strike Up The Band (George Gershwin composition)
• Strike up the band
• String along
• String someone along
• The Adventure of the Speckled Band (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Boys in the Band (play by Mart Crowley)
• The Cobra (Nickname of Kobe Bryant)
• The Final Countdown (song by the Swedish band Europe)
• The Indian rope trick
• The Lone Star Cobra (Nickname of Donald Curry)
• Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (Dawn with Tony Orlando song)
• Tie one on
• Tie the knot
• Tie up the loose ends
• Tie yourself in knots
• To beat the band
• We few, we happy few, we band of brothers (from Henry V by Shakespeare)