Runner Phrases

Phrases

• Back office bean counter
• Bean Burrito (Nickname of basketball player Nick Young)
• Bean counter
• Bean feast
• Bean town
• Beep beep (A catchphrase from Road Runner)
• Blade Runner (Harrison Ford / Ridley Scott movie)
• Bog trotter
• Choke the gopher
• Courier Express. Today's delivery problems solved tomorrow (Courier Express advertising slogan)
• Don't have a bean
• Don't shoot the messenger
• Don't shoot the piano player
• Don't shoot until you can see the whites of their eyes
• Done a runner
• Ducks on a pond (A baseball expression meaning having runners in scoring position)
• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
• Front runner
• Globe trotter
• If I tell you I will have to shoot you
• Just shoot me
• Shoot 'em up
• Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
• Shoot a fairy
• Shoot blanks

• Shoot down in flames (destroy an argument or theory)
• Shoot first, ask questions later
• Shoot from the hip
• Shoot him down in flames
• Shoot hoops
• Shoot it out
• Shoot me now
• Shoot on sight
• Shoot someone a line
• Shoot straight (to talk or deal honestly)
• Shoot the breeze
• Shoot the moon (remove household goods by night to avoid paying rent)
• Shoot the puppy
• Shoot through (to leave or abscond)
• Shoot to kill
• Shoot your cuffs
• Shoot your mouth off
• Shoot yourself in the foot
• Stop, or my mom will shoot (line from Sylvestor Stallone movie)
• The Gopher State (Nickname of the US state of Minnesota)
• The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean (Paul Newman movie)
• They Shoot Horses Don't They? (Jane Fonda movie)
• Tread softly because you tread on my dreams (from a poem by Yeats)
• Tread the boards
• Turkey shoot