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Sandpaper Phrases
74 phrases and expressions related to "sandpaper".
Phrases
- A hewer of wood and a drawer of water
- As busy as a one armed paper hanger
- As smooth as a baby's bottom
- As smooth as silk
- Bad paper
- Big Smooth (Nickname of basketball player Charlie Villanueva)
- Bit of rough
- Brilliant cleaning starts with Finish (Finish Detergent advertising slogan)
- Bury your head in the sand
- Can't see the wood for the trees
- Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually
- Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
- Creamy, smooth, refreshing (Calders Cream Ale advertising slogan)
- Cut out the dead wood
- Cut up rough
- Dead wood
- Diamond in the rough
- Draw a line in the sand
- For those who like the trade rough (Travis aftershave advertising slogan)
- Get good wood on it
- He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
- Head in the sand
- House built on sand
- I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? (Beatles song lyric)
- I've started so I'll finish (A catchphrase from Mastermind)
- It sounds alright on paper
- It's how the smooth take the rough (Range Rover advertising slogan)
- Kick sand in his face
- Knock on wood
- Light the blue touch paper and retire
- Live rough
- Nice guys finish last
- Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
- Not worth the paper it's printed on
- On paper
- Paper Doll (Mills Brothers song)
- Paper millionaire
- Paper over the cracks
- Paper profit
- Paper the house
- Paper thin
- Paper tiger
- Paper trail
- Photo finish
- Put pen to paper
- Put the wood in the hole
- Rough and ready
- Rough and tumble
- Rough around the edges
- Rough diamond
- Rough justice
- Rough landing
- Rough out
- Rough ride
- Rough stuff
- Rough trade
- Rough up
- Selling sand to Arabs
- Silky smooth
- Sleep rough
- Smooth move
- Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
- Smooth sailing
- Smooth talk
- Splendour In The Grass (Warren Beatty / Natalie Wood movie)
- Sun, sea and sand
- Take the rough with the smooth
- Thai - smooth as silk (Thai Airways International advertising slogan)
- The Big Smooth (Nickname of Sam Perkins)
- The course of true love never did run smooth
- There's never a rough puff in a lucky (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
- Touch wood
- Toxic paper
- West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie)