Sardine Phrases

Phrases

• A Fish Called Wanda (John Cleese movie)
• A still small voice
• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
• All creatures great and small
• All is fish that comes to the net
• As small as the hairs on a gnat's bollock
• Big fish eat little fish
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Bigger fish to fry
• Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (play by Tennesee Williams and Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Cold fish
• Cry stinking fish
• Different kettle of fish
• Does exactly what it says on the tin (Ronseal advertising slogan)
• Don't sweat the small stuff
• Drink like a fish
• Fish always rot from the head downwards
• Fish and finger pie (Beatles song lyric)
• Fish and guests smell after three days
• Fish it out
• Fish or cut bait
• Fish out
• Fish out of water
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
• Gnat's bollock (slang term for a very small unit of measurement)
• Good things come in small packages
• Good things come in small parcels
• Got bigger fish to fry
• Greasy spoon (a small cheap cafe selling fried food)
• Like a cat on a hot tin roof
• Like a fish out of water
• Like shooting fish in a barrel
• Little fish in a big pond (someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers)
• Little tin god
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• No job too small
• Odd fish
• One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind (Neil Armstrong quotation)
• Pretty kettle of fish
• Put the tin hat on it
• Queer fish
• School of fish
• Seeing small business differently (SBC Communications advertising slogan)
• Semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower (Beatles song lyric)
• Small beer
• Small fortune
• Small is beautiful
• Small minded
• Small potatoes
• Small wonder
• Small wonder (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
• Solutions for a small planet (IBM advertising slogan)
• The God Of Small Things (Arundhati Roy book)
• The next small thing
• The small screen
• The still small voice of God
• The winner takes it all, the loser standing small (ABBA lyric)
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• Think small (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• Tin ear
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• Wee small hours of the morning
• Wet fish
• What does that have to do with the price of fish?