Shock Phrases
Phrases with shock in them
- Acoustic shock
- Culture shock
- Eyebrow raising (something that creates shock or surprise)
- Future shock
- In for a shock
- In shock
- Shell shock
- Shock and awe
- Shock horror
- Shock jock
- Short sharp shock
- Sticker shock
- The shock of the new
Phrases about shock
- A, B, C, D, E, Your public library has arranged these in ways that make you cry, giggle, laugh, love, hate, wonder, ponder and understand (American Library Association advertising slogan)
- Acoustic shock
- At sixty miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock (Rolls Royce advertising slogan)
- Bake and shake
- Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni movie)
- Blow a fuse
- Blow a gasket
- Blow a kiss
- Blow a raspberry (Cockney rhyming slang for fart)
- Blow away the cobwebs
- Blow by blow account
- Blow chunks
- Blow great guns
- Blow hard
- Blow hot and cold
- Blow in
- Blow it out your arse
- Blow it out your ear
- Blow job
- Blow my skirt up
- Blow off
- Blow off steam
- Blow off the stage
- Blow out of the water
- Blow smoke up your ass
- Blow some my way (Chesterfield Cigarettes advertising slogan)
- Blow someone away
- Blow the gaff
- Blow the lid off
- Blow the whistle
- Blow through
- Blow to smithereens
- Blow up
- Blow winds, and crack your cheeks
- Blow with the wind
- Blow your brains out
- Blow your cover
- Blow your mind
- Blow your nose
- Blow your own horn
- Blow your own trumpet
- Blow your stack
- Blow your top
- Blow your wad
- Body blow
- Brown out (partial loss of electricity)
- Bump start
- By the hairs on my chinny chin chin, I’ll blow your house down
- Caught off base (A baseball expression meaning unawares or by surprise)
- Caught with your hand in the cookie jar
- Chinless wonder
- Clash of civilizations
- Clash of culture
- Clash of the titans
- Cookie jar accounting
- Culture shock
- Cushion the blow
- Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick book)
- Do the shake and vac (Shake And Vac advertising slogan)
- Duncan the Wonder Horse (Nickname of TV news anchor Tom Brokaw)
- Eyebrow raising (something that creates shock or surprise)
- Face palm moment
- Fair shake
- For goodness sake
- Fresh start
- Frock horror
- Future shock
- Gentlemen, start your engines
- Get off to a bad start
- Get off to a flying start
- Glancing blow
- Great scot (exclamation of surprise)
- Green Scare
- Gutless wonder
- Head start
- Holy moley
- I'll be blowed
- If enough people would stop smoking and start drinking, we could get out of ashtrays and into vermouth (Cinzano advertising slogan)
- If your friendly neighborhood grocer doesn’t have a jar knock something off a shelf on the way out (Dilly Beans advertising slogan)
- Imagination at Work (General Electric advertising slogan)
- In Flanders fields the poppies blow (from a poem by McCrae)
- In for a shock
- In out, in out, shake it all about
- In shock
- Inspire me Surprise me AMD me (AMD advertising slogan)
- It will blow over
- Jam jar (Cockney rhyming slang for car)
- Joe Blow
- Jump start
- Just put your lips together and blow (To Have And Have Not)
- Kelloggs, because your best days start with breakfast (Kelloggs advertising slogan)
- Kick start
- Let’s shake hands on it
- Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
- London Calling (The Clash song)
- Low blow
- Make a fresh start
- Many happy returns (IBM Electric Typewriters advertising slogan)
- More than you can shake a stick at
- My heart missed a beat
- Never in all my born days
- New start
- Nine days’ wonder
- No wonder the English have kept cool for 192 years (Gordon’s Gin advertising slogan)
- Ours is not to wonder why, ours is just to do or die
- Progress is our most important product (General Electric advertising slogan)
- Protein shake
- Put the freshness back (Shake And Vac advertising slogan)
- Rock your world
- Rude awakening
- Scare quotes
- Scare the living daylights out of
- Seven day wonder
- Shake Rattle And Roll (Bill Haley song)
- Shake a leg
- Shake down
- Shake like a leaf
- Shake up
- Shake your booty
- Shell shock
- Shlock horror
- Shock and awe
- Shock horror
- Shock jock
- Short sharp shock
- Small wonder
- Small wonder (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
- So easy to use, no wonder it’s number one (AOL advertising slogan)
- Soften the blow
- Spit take (spitting out a drink in response to a joke or surprise)
- Start again
- Start from scratch
- Start over
- Start the ball rolling
- Sticker shock
- Surprise package
- Surprise surprise
- Take cuts at someone (A baseball expression meaning taking a verbal swing or striking a blow at a reputation)
- Tales of the unexpected
- Talking Book (Stevie Wonder album)
- The Boy Wonder (Nickname of Robin)
- The Day of the Dead (Horror movie)
- The Hippy Hippy Shake (The Beatles song)
- The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow (line from nursery rhyme)
- The Wonder Of You (Elvis Presley song)
- The glorious twelfth (of August – the start of the British grouse shooting season)
- The shock of the new
- The start of a beautiful friendship
- The wonder of Woolworths (Woolworths advertising slogan)
- Theirs is not to wonder why, theirs is but to do or die
- Throw your arms in horror
- To boldly go where no man has gone before (A catchphrase from Start Trek)
- Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are (line from nursery rhyme)
- Visa’s Delta blow to cheques (Visa Delta Debit Card advertising slogan)
- Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door (Beatles song lyric)
- We bring good things to life (General Electric advertising slogan)
- Well blow me down
- What the devil?
- Wonder Boys (Michael Douglas movie)
- Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?
- You Are The Sunshine Of My Life (Stevie Wonder song)
- You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! (line from the Michael Caine movie The Italian Job)
- You’ll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent (Pepsodent toothpaste advertising slogan)
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