Shade Phrases

Phrases

• A Whiter Shade Of Pale (Procol Harum song)
• A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple
• A nod is as good as a wink to a blind bat (A line from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• Afraid of your own shadow
• After dark (Tia Maria advertising slogan)
• All cats are grey in the dark
• As blind as a bat
• As blind as a mole
• As dark as pitch
• Behind the curtain
• Beyond any possible shadow of doubt
• Blind Before I Stop (Meatloaf song)
• Blind alley
• Blind corner
• Blind date
• Blind drunk
• Blind faith
• Blind spot
• Blue screen of death
• Buy blind
• Cast a long shadow
• Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell book)
• Cloud cuckoo land
• Coming to a screen near you
• Curtain call
• Curtain climber
• Curtain raiser
• Dancing In The Dark (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Dark And Bloody Ground (Nickname of the US state of Kentucky)
• Dark Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• Dark before the dawn
• Dark continent
• Dark horse
• Dark humour
• Dark monday
• Dark tourism
• Dark triad (A group of three negative personality traits)
• Deep dark secret
• Did you get dressed in the dark?
• Doesn't make a blind bit of difference
• Doom and gloom
• Double blind test
• Eclipse of the moon
• Eclipse of the sun
• Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while
• Every dark cloud has a silver lining
• Fifty Shades of Grey (E L James book)
• Five o-clock shadow
• Flying blind
• Forty shades of green
• Frightened of your own shadow
• Get Off My Cloud (Rolling Stones song)
• Gloom and doom
• Hide and seek
• Hide from the light
• Hide the sausage
• Hide your light under a bushel
• His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman book)
• I wandered lonely as a cloud (from a poem by Wordsworth)
• I wear my sunglasses at night

• I'd rather light a candle than curse the dark
• In An Octopus's Garden In The Shade (The Beatles song)
• In the dark
• In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king
• It was a dark and stormy night
• It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness
• Justice is blind
• Keep it dark
• Kept in the dark
• Leap in the dark
• Light and shade
• Love is blind
• Made in the shade
• Me and my shadow
• Neither hide nor hair
• On cloud nine
• On the blind side
• Only 1 out of 25 men is color blind. The other 24 just dress that way (Mohara Suits advertising slogan)
• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read (Groucho Marx line)
• Pale shadow
• Pitch dark
• Play hide the sausage
• Prince of Darkness (Nickname of Peter Mandelson)
• Put something in the shade
• Ring down the curtain
• Rob someone blind
• Screen grab
• Screen time
• Shot in the dark
• Silver screen
• Stab in the dark
• Star of stage and screen
• Star of the silver screen
• Swear blind
• Take a bath in the dark tonight and let the water make love to your skin (Lavin Perfumes & Soaps advertising slogan)
• Tall dark and handsome
• The Bamboo Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist China)
• The Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd album)
• The Iron Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist states)
• The Prince of Darkness (Nickname of Bill Laimbeer)
• The Prince of darkness
• The Real Slim Shady
• The Shadow knows (A catchphrase from the crime fighting vigilante)
• The big screen
• The blind leading the blind
• The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades (song by Timbuk 3)
• The small screen
• The valley of the shadow of death (line from the Lord's Prayer)
• There are none so blind as those that will not see
• There's none so blind as those who will not see
• Three blind mice, see how they run (line from nursery rhyme)
• Total Eclipse Of The Heart (Bonnie Tyler song)
• Turn a blind eye
• Under a cloud
• Under cover of darkness
• Up a blind alley
• Whistling in the dark
• Without a shadow of a doubt
• You can run but you can't hide
• You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (The Beatles song)