Shot Phrases

Phrases

• A big shot
• Air shot
• All to cock (ruined or shambolic)
• An abortive attempt
• As dead as a dodo
• As dead as a doornail
• As dead as mutton
• At the dead of night
• At the end of a gun
• Back from the dead
• Ball of fire
• Baptism of fire
• Bernie, the bolt (A catchphrase from The Golden Shot)
• Better dead than red
• Better off dead
• Big Shot Becky (Nickname of basketball player Becky Hammon)
• Big Shot Bob (Nickname of basketball player Robert Horry)
• Big shot
• Booster shot
• Brain dead
• Breathe fire
• Bring out your dead
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• C'mon Colman's, light my fire (Colman's Mustard advertising slogan)
• Cake pop (A small piece of cake coated with chocolate)
• Call the shots
• Calling the shots
• Catch fire
• Cheap shot
• Chew a gun
• Chinese fire drill
• Chivalry is not dead
• Come On Baby Light My Fire (The Doors song)
• Come home to a real fire (Coal Board advertising slogan)
• Crazy Gun Barney (Nickname of Barney Fife (Don Knotts))
• Cut out the dead wood
• Cut someone dead
• Dead Man Walking (Helen Prejean book)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)
• Dead Ringer For Love (Meatloaf song)
• Dead air
• Dead and buried
• Dead and gone
• Dead cat bounce
• Dead cinch
• Dead duck
• Dead easy
• Dead end
• Dead from the neck up
• Dead giveaway
• Dead heads
• Dead heat
• Dead in the water
• Dead issue
• Dead letter
• Dead loss
• Dead man walking
• Dead meat
• Dead men tell no tales
• Dead men's shoes
• Dead of night
• Dead of winter
• Dead on arrival
• Dead on time
• Dead presidents
• Dead reckoning
• Dead ringer
• Dead to rights
• Dead to the world
• Dead white European male (derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation)
• Dead white male
• Dead wood
• Dick and Jane is dead (Encyclopaedia Britannica advertising slogan)
• Domestos kills all known germs - Dead! (Domestos Bleach advertising slogan)
• Don't shoot the messenger
• Don't shoot the piano player
• Don't shoot until you can see the whites of their eyes
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• Down among the dead men
• Draw someone's fire
• Drop dead
• Drop dead gorgeous
• Drop dead list
• Drop down dead
• Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
• Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
• Fight fire with fire
• 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)
• Flogging a dead horse
• Friendly fire
• Get on like a house on fire
• Get shot of
• Give it the gun
• Give it your best shot
• Given up for dead
• Go through fire and water for
• God is dead (philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche)
• Good and dead
• Great Balls Of Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis song)
• Gun down
• Hang by the neck until dead
• 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
• He's dead Jim (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• 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 lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? (Beatles song lyric)
• I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
• I wouldn't be caught dead
• If I tell you I will have to shoot you

• 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
• Kicking dead whales down the beach
• Kill stone dead
• Kills bugs dead (Raid advertising slogan)
• Knock 'em dead
• Leave the gun, take the cannoli (line from The Godfather)
• Left for dead
• Let the dead bury the dead
• Liar liar: pants on fire
• 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 being savaged by a dead sheep
• Little Sure Shot (Nickname of Annie Oakley)
• Long shot
• Loud enough to waken the dead
• Machine Gun Kelly (Nickname of George Kelly)
• Mail shot
• Mom and Pop
• More dead than alive
• Mother Superior jumped the gun (Beatles song lyric)
• Mr. Big Shot (Nickname of Chauncey Billups)
• Never speak ill of the dead
• Not by a long shot
• Numbered with the dead
• Once you pop you can't stop (Pringles advertising slogan)
• Open fire
• Out of earshot
• Out of the frying pan into the fire
• Over my dead body
• Parting shot
• Perfect shot
• Piss like a fire engine
• Play dead
• Play with fire
• Pop art
• Pop goes the weasel
• Pop off
• Pop someone's cherry
• Pop the question
• Pop your clogs
• Pull your chestnuts out of the fire
• Put a gun to your head
• Raise the dead
• Revenge mission (an attempt to seek active retribution)
• Ride shotgun
• Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash song)
• Roll over and play dead
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play by Tom Stoppard)
• Run toward the sound of gunfire
• 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
• 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
• Shot across the bows
• Shot in the arm
• Shot in the dark
• Shot to hell
• Shot while trying to escape
• Shotgun wedding
• Smoking gun
• Snap, Crackle, and Pop (Kellogg's Rice Krispies advertising slogan)
• Son of a gun
• Stop, or my mom will shoot (line from Sylvestor Stallone movie)
• Sweet as the moment when the pod went 'pop' (Birds Eye Peas advertising slogan)
• Take a pop at
• Take a pot shot at
• The Bronze Goddess of Fire (Nickname of LaWanda Page)
• The Day of the Dead (Horror movie)
• 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 King is dead, long live the King
• 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 West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
• The cereal that's shot from guns! (Quaker Puffed Wheat advertising slogan)
• The fat is in the fire
• The money shot
• The only good Indian is a dead Indian
• 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)
• Throw Another Log On The Fire (Outlaws song)
• Too many irons in the fire
• Too pooped to pop
• Turkey shoot
• Two irons in the fire
• Under fire
• Under the gun
• Vox pop
• Wanted, dead or alive
• Where there's smoke there's fire
• Where's the fire?
• Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
• You couldn't catch a monkey with a shotgun and a sack
• You'll get shot
• You're a long time dead

Related

• A big shot
• Air shot
• 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
• Booster shot
• Cheap shot
• Get shot of
• Give it your best shot
• Have a shot at
• He shot through like a Bondi tram
• Hot shot
• I Shot The Sheriff (Eric Clapton song)
• Like a shot
• Little Sure Shot (Nickname of Annie Oakley)
• Long shot
• Mail shot
• Mr. Big Shot (Nickname of Chauncey Billups)
• Not by a long shot
• Parting shot
• Perfect shot
• Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
• Shot across the bows
• Shot in the arm
• Shot in the dark
• Shot to hell
• Shot while trying to escape
• Take a pot shot at
• The Hoosier Hot Shot (Nickname of humourist Herb Shriner)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (James Stewart / John Wayne movie)
• The cereal that's shot from guns! (Quaker Puffed Wheat advertising slogan)
• The money shot
• The shot heard around the world
• You'll get shot