Scale Phrases

Phrases

• A Fish Called Wanda (John Cleese movie)
• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
• All is fish that comes to the net
• Balance of nature
• Balance of payments
• Balance of power
• Balance of probabilities
• Balance of trade
• Beauty is only skin deep
• Big fish eat little fish
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Bigger fish to fry
• Built to scale
• By the skin of your teeth
• Climb onto the bandwagon
• Climb the corporate ladder
• Climb the greasy pole
• Climb the walls
• Cold fish
• Comfortable in your skin
• Cry stinking fish
• Different kettle of fish
• Drink like a fish
• Economy of scale
• 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
• Get under your skin
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
• Give someone skin
• Got bigger fish to fry
• Half measure
• He makes my skin crawl
• He makes my skin creep
• In the balance
• It's no skin off my nose
• Jump out of your skin
• 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)
• Lose your balance
• Made to measure
• Measure for Measure
• Measure twice, cut once
• Measure up
• Mental balance
• Mount Etna (tourist attraction in Italy)
• Mount Fuji (tourist attraction in Japan)
• Mount Rushmore (tourist attraction in the USA)
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Odd fish
• Off balance
• Off the scale
• On a grand scale
• On balance
• Pretty kettle of fish
• Queer fish
• Redress the balance
• Save your skin
• Scale the dizzy heights
• School of fish
• Skin alive
• Skin and blister (Cockney rhyming slang for sister)
• Skin and bone
• Skin deep
• Skin in the game
• Skin like peaches and cream
• Skin partner
• Slip on a banana skin
• So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
• Soaked to the skin
• Strike a balance
• Take a bath in the dark tonight and let the water make love to your skin (Lavin Perfumes & Soaps advertising slogan)
• Temple Mount (tourist attraction in Israel)
• The Mount of Olives (tourist attraction in Israel)
• The balance of his mind was disturbed
• The scales have fallen from my eyes
• The skin you love to touch (Woodbury Soap advertising slogan)
• There's more than one way to skin a cat
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• Tip the balance
• Tip the scales
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• Under the skin
• Weigh something in the balance
• Weighed in the balance and found wanting
• Wet fish
• What does that have to do with the price of fish?
• Work life balance