Shovel Phrases

Phrases

• As common as muck
• As happy as a pig in muck
• Bucket and spade holiday
• Call a spade a shovel
• Call a spade a spade
• Fly now. Shovel later (Eastern Airlines advertising slogan)
• Full scoop
• Get the scoop
• Inside scoop
• Lady muck
• Like a pig in muck
• Like shit off a shovel

• Muck about
• Muck in with
• Muck raking
• Poop and scoop
• Shovel ready (a building project in which all the preliminaries have been arranged)
• Spade work
• The right tool for the job
• Tool around
• What a scoop
• When you are in a hole, stop digging
• Where there's muck there's brass