Shady Phrases

Phrases

• A Whiter Shade Of Pale (Procol Harum song)
• After dark (Tia Maria advertising slogan)
• All cats are grey in the dark
• As crooked as a dog's hind leg
• As dark as pitch
• Back the wrong horse
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Born on the wrong side of the blanket
• Born on the wrong side of the tracks
• Crooked House (Agatha Christie book)
• 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?
• Every dark cloud has a silver lining
• From the wrong side of the tracks
• Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
• Get off on the wrong foot
• Get out of the wrong side of the bed
• Go down the wrong way
• Go wrong
• His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman book)
• How wrong can you be?
• I'd rather light a candle than curse the dark
• If anything can go wrong, it will
• If this is wrong I don't want to be right
• In An Octopus's Garden In The Shade (The Beatles song)
• In the dark

• In the wrong
• It was a dark and stormy night
• It went down the wrong way
• It's all gone Pete Tong (Cockney rhyming slang for gone wrong)
• Jump to the wrong conclusion
• Keep it dark
• Kept in the dark
• Laugh on the wrong side of your face
• Leap in the dark
• Light and shade
• Made in the shade
• My country right or wrong
• Not that there's anything wrong with that (A catchphrase from Seinfeld)
• On the wrong foot
• On the wrong side of the tracks
• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read (Groucho Marx line)
• Pitch dark
• Put a foot wrong
• Put something in the shade
• Rub up the wrong way
• Shot in the dark
• Stab in the dark
• 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 Adventure of the Crooked Man (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd album)
• The Real Slim Shady
• The right place at the wrong time
• There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile (line from nursery rhyme)
• What's wrong with this picture?
• Whistling in the dark
• Why don't you come up sometime and see me? (She Done Him Wrong)
• Wrong Way Corrigan (Nickname of Douglas Corrigan)
• Wrong side of the blanket
• Wrong side of the tracks
• Wrong, with a capital R