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Shoot Phrases
284 phrases and expressions related to "shoot".
Phrases
- A Town Like Alice (Nevil Shute book)
- A View To A Kill (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
- A big ask
- A big shot
- Aim high
- Air shot
- All guns blazing
- Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer
- Ask after
- Ask and you shall receive
- Ask around
- Ask for the moon
- Ask me another
- Ask no odds
- Ask no questions and hear no lies
- Ask not for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee
- Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country
- Ask out
- Ask the Man who Owns One (Packard advertising slogan)
- At the end of a gun
- Ball of fire
- Baptism of fire
- Beep beep (A catchphrase from Road Runner)
- Bernie, the bolt (A catchphrase from The Golden Shot)
- Big Shot Becky (Nickname of basketball player Becky Hammon)
- Big Shot Bob (Nickname of basketball player Robert Horry)
- Big shot
- Blade Runner (Harrison Ford / Ridley Scott movie)
- Blaze away at
- Booster shot
- Breathe fire
- Bring out your best (Bud Light advertising slogan)
- C'mon Colman's, light my fire (Colman's Mustard advertising slogan)
- Catch fire
- Cheap shot
- Chew a gun
- Chicago typewriter
- Chinese fire drill
- Come On Baby Light My Fire (The Doors song)
- Come home to a real fire (Coal Board advertising slogan)
- Come into bloom
- Cost cutting
- Crazy Gun Barney (Nickname of Barney Fife (Don Knotts))
- Cutting remark
- Don't ask me
- Don't be vague, ask for Haig (Haig Scotch advertising slogan)
- Don't get vexed, ask Teletext (Teletext advertising slogan)
- Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars (line from the movie Now, Voyager)
- Don't shoot the messenger
- Don't shoot the piano player
- Don't shoot until you can see the whites of their eyes
- Done a runner
- Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
- Draw a bead on
- Draw someone's fire
- Dressed to kill
- Drive by shooting
- Dryest gin in town. Ask any Martini (Seagram's Gin advertising slogan)
- Eat dirt
- Eats, Shoots And Leaves (Lynne Truss book)
- Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (David Reuben book)
- Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (Woody Allen movie)
- Extreme refreshment (Bud Ice advertising slogan)
- Failure to launch
- Fight fire with fire
- Fill full of holes
- Fire And Rain (James Taylor song)
- Fire Sale
- Fire and brimstone
- Fire away
- Fire down below
- Fire engine red
- Fire in the hole
- Fire in your belly
- Fire storm
- Fire the imagination (inspire with enthusiasm)
- Fire up the Quattro (A catchphrase from Gene Glenister In Ashes To Ashes)
- Flash in the pan
- For all you do, this Bud's for you (Budweiser advertising slogan)
- Friendly fire
- From stem to stern
- Front runner
- Funny you should ask
- Get on like a house on fire
- Get shot of
- Give it the gun
- Give it your best shot
- Go in for the kill
- Go postal
- Go through fire and water for
- Great Balls Of Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis song)
- Green shoots of change
- Green shoots of recovery
- Gun down
- Hang fire
- Happiness Is A Warm Gun (The Beatles song)
- Harp puts out the fire (Harp Lager advertising slogan)
- Have a shot at
- Have gun, will travel (A catchphrase from TV series)
- Have many irons in the fire
- He shot through like a Bondi tram
- Heap coals of fire on someone's head
- Hire and fire
- Hold a gun to his head
- Hot shot
- I Shot The Sheriff (Eric Clapton song)
- I ask you
- I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? (Beatles song lyric)
- I'd kill for a cup of tea
- If I tell you I will have to shoot you
- If I tell you, I'll have to kill you
- If looks could kill
- If you ask me
- If you have to ask the price you can't afford it (Rolls Royce slogan)
- In at the kill
- In the line of fire
- Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
- Jump the gun
- Just shoot me
- Keep your powder dry
- Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino movie)
- Kill or be killed
- Kill or cure
- Kill stone dead
- Kill the fatted calf
- Kill the goose that lays the golden egg
- Kill time
- Kill time until time kills you
- Kill two birds with one stone
- Kill with kindness
- Launch one's lunch
- Launch out at
- Launch vehicle
- Leaf through
- Leave the gun, take the cannoli (line from The Godfather)
- Let one thousand flowers bloom
- Liar liar: pants on fire
- Licence To Kill (James Bond movie Timothy Dalton)
- Licensed to kill
- Light My Fire (The Doors song)
- Light a fire under him
- Light a fire under some
- Like a pig from a gun
- Like a shot
- Like shooting fish in a barrel
- Little Sure Shot (Nickname of Annie Oakley)
- Long shot
- Machine Gun Kelly (Nickname of George Kelly)
- Mail shot
- Mother Superior jumped the gun (Beatles song lyric)
- Mr. Big Shot (Nickname of Chauncey Billups)
- Nip in the bud
- Not by a long shot
- On the cutting edge
- Open fire
- Out of the frying pan into the fire
- Parting shot
- Perfect shot
- Piss like a fire engine
- Play softball (A baseball expression meaning to ask easy questions)
- Play with fire
- Poacher turned gamekeeper
- Pull the trigger
- Pull your chestnuts out of the fire
- Put a gun to your head
- Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash song)
- Road kill
- Rubber bullet (a bullet made of rubber or plastic and used for riot control)
- Russian roulette
- See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
- Set Fire to the Rain (Adele song)
- Set the Thames on fire
- Set the world on fire
- Set your hair on fire
- Shake like a leaf
- Sharp shooter
- Shoot 'em up
- Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
- Shoot a fairy
- Shoot blanks
- Shoot down in flames (destroy an argument or theory)
- Shoot first, ask questions later
- Shoot from the hip
- Shoot him down in flames
- Shoot hoops
- Shoot it out
- Shoot me now
- Shoot on sight
- Shoot someone a line
- Shoot straight (to talk or deal honestly)
- Shoot the breeze
- Shoot the moon (remove household goods by night to avoid paying rent)
- Shoot the puppy
- Shoot through (to leave or abscond)
- Shoot to kill
- Shoot your cuffs
- Shoot your mouth off
- Shoot yourself in the foot
- Shooting war
- Shot across the bows
- Shot in the arm
- Shot in the dark
- Shot to hell
- Shot while trying to escape
- Sitting duck
- Sitting target
- Smoking gun
- Son of a gun
- Sprout wings
- Stem the tide
- Stop, or my mom will shoot (line from Sylvestor Stallone movie)
- Straight shooter
- Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) (Kelly Clarkson song)
- Take a pot shot at
- Take aim
- Tastes so good cats ask for it by name (Meow Mix Cat food advertising slogan)
- Tea leaf (Cockney rhyming slang for thief)
- That which does not kill us makes us stronger (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
- The Bronze Goddess of Fire (Nickname of LaWanda Page)
- The Fast Gun From Texas (Nickname of Dan Troop (John Russell))
- The Gun That Won The West (Nickname of the Colt revolver)
- The Hoosier Hot Shot (Nickname of humourist Herb Shriner)
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (James Stewart / John Wayne movie)
- The Man With The Golden Gun (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
- The Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash song)
- The cereal that's shot from guns! (Quaker Puffed Wheat advertising slogan)
- The fat is in the fire
- The glorious twelfth (of August - the start of the British grouse shooting season)
- The money shot
- The shot heard around the world
- There's no smoke without fire
- They Shoot Horses Don't They? (Jane Fonda movie)
- This Wheel's On Fire (Bob Dylan song)
- Thou shalt not kill
- Throw Another Log On The Fire (Outlaws song)
- Time to kill
- To Kill A Mockingbird (Gregory Peck movie)
- Too many irons in the fire
- Turkey shoot
- Turn over a new leaf
- Two irons in the fire
- Under fire
- Under the gun
- We aim to please
- When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
- Where there's life, there's Bud (Budweiser Beer advertising slogan)
- Where there's smoke there's fire
- Where's the fire?
- Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty? (ABBA lyric)
- Whole shooting match
- Why ask why? Try Bud Dry (Budweiser Earl advertising slogan)
- With both barrels
- You gotta ask yourself, do I feel lucky, well do ya punk? (Dirty Harry)
- You'll get shot
Related
- Don't shoot the messenger
- Don't shoot the piano player
- Don't shoot until you can see the whites of their eyes
- If I tell you I will have to shoot you
- Just shoot me
- Shoot 'em up
- Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
- Shoot a fairy
- Shoot blanks
- Shoot down in flames (destroy an argument or theory)
- Shoot first, ask questions later
- Shoot from the hip
- Shoot him down in flames
- Shoot hoops
- Shoot it out
- Shoot me now
- Shoot on sight
- Shoot someone a line
- Shoot straight (to talk or deal honestly)
- Shoot the breeze
- Shoot the moon (remove household goods by night to avoid paying rent)
- Shoot the puppy
- Shoot through (to leave or abscond)
- Shoot to kill
- Shoot your cuffs
- Shoot your mouth off
- Shoot yourself in the foot
- Stop, or my mom will shoot (line from Sylvestor Stallone movie)
- They Shoot Horses Don't They? (Jane Fonda movie)
- Turkey shoot