Shaft Phrases

Phrases

• A buck well spent (Springmaid Sheets advertising slogan)
• Alive and well
• All over bar the shouting
• All's Well, That Ends Well
• An albatross round his neck
• An ill-favoured thing sir, but mine own
• Anti personnel mine
• As cold as a well digger's arse
• As straight as an arrow
• As well as can be expected
• Augur well
• Back to the salt mine
• Bar fly
• Bar none
• Belly up to the bar
• Big Puma (Nickname of baseball player Lance Berkman)
• Bounty - the taste of paradise (Bounty candy bar advertising slogan)
• Bow and arrow squad
• Break your neck
• Breathing down your neck
• Broken Arrow (James Stewart movie)
• By the scruff of your neck
• Climb the greasy pole
• Dead from the neck up
• Didn't they do well! (A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth In The Generation Game)
• Ding dong bell Pussy's in the well (line from nursery rhyme)
• Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? (Rod Stewart song)
• Ee bar gum
• Exceedingly well read
• Genius bonus (a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed people)
• Get a gold star (earn a merit point for doing well)
• Get it in the neck
• Get well soon
• Give me a break! Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar! (Kit Kat chocolate advertising slogan)
• Go well Go Shell (Shell advertising slogan)
• Gregory Peck (Cockney rhyming slang for neck)
• Hail fellow well met
• Hang by the neck until dead
• He Hate Me (Nickname of American football player Rod Smart)
• Her Honeymoon - and it should have been mine! (Listerine Mouthwash advertising slogan)
• Hershey, the great American chocolate bar (Hershey Chocolate advertising slogan)
• Hit the bar
• Hot Rod (Nickname of basketball player Rodney Hundley)
• I Me Mine (The Beatles song)
• I scratch your back and you scratch mine
• I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole
• I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole
• If a job is worth doing it is worth doing well
• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself
• In The Heat Of The Night (Sidney Poitier / Rod Steiger)
• Just as well
• Katy bar the door
• Keep going well - keep going Shell (Shell advertising slogan)
• Know full well
• Leave well enough alone
• Let well alone
• Living well is the best revenge
• Low man on the totem pole
• Maggie Mae (Rod Stewart song)
• Make a rod for your own back
• Make mine Moxie (Moxie soda advertising slogan)
• Make mine a double
• Might as well
• Mine host
• Mine is bigger than yours
• Mine of information
• My friend, Joe Holmes, is now a horse (Arrow Shirts advertising slogan)
• Neck and crop
• Neck and neck
• Neck beard (hair growth on the neck)
• Neer do well
• Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine (Casablanca)
• One Dog (Nickname of Lance Johnson)
• One may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
• Pain in the neck
• Pole position
• Poor thing but mine own
• Prop up the bar
• Raise the bar
• Raising the bar (Cingular Wireless advertising slogan)
• Rule with a rod of iron
• Spare the rod and spoil the child
• Spear carrier
• Stick your neck out
• That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine (Gene Autry song)
• That's all well and good
• The First Cut Is The Deepest (Rod Stewart song)
• The Foul Pole (Nickname of Andrew Golota)
• The worried well
• There's a smile in every Hershey Bar (Hershey chocolate advertising slogan)
• This neck of the woods
• Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
• Travel well (Lincoln advertising slogan)
• Up the pole
• Up to your neck in trouble
• Victory is mine
• Well I never
• Well blow me down
• Well endowed
• Well fed
• Well fit
• Well heeled
• Well hung
• Well in with
• Well liked
• Well off
• Well turned calf
• Well turned out
• Well up with
• Well, actually, he forgot Poland
• Well, duh
• Well, nobody's perfect (line from the movie Some Like It Hot)
• Well, she was just seventeen you know what I mean (The Beatles song lyric)
• What would you do for a Klondike Bar? (Klondike chocolate advertising slogan)
• Win by a neck
• Wind your neck in
• You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart song)
• You gotta ask yourself, do I feel lucky, well do ya punk? (Dirty Harry)
• You too can have a body like mine (Charles Atlas advertising slogan)
• Your guess is as good as mine
• Your place or mine?