Signal Phrases

Phrases

• A sure sign
• Alarm bells began to ring
• Born Under A Bad Sign (Cream song)
• Born under a bad sign
• Brain wave
• California licence plate (Nickname for tattoo on lower back)
• Catch a wave
• Empty gesture
• False alarm
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• Flag fall (An Australian expression for a fixed starting fee, typically at the start of a taxi ride)
• Flag it up
• Fly the flag (British Airways advertising slogan)
• Gesture politics
• Give me a sign
• Heat wave
• High ball
• Intruder alert
• Keep the flag flying
• Killer wave
• Leading indicator
• Manos de Piedra' (Nickname of Roberto Duran Flag of Panama)
• Mayday mayday
• Mexican wave
• Mixed signals
• On red alert
• On the alert
• On the crest of a wave

• Point out
• Radio alarm
• Radio burst
• Rally round the flag
• Ready and waiting (alert and prepared for action)
• Red alert
• Ride a wave
• Show the flag
• Sign of the times
• Sign off
• Sign on
• Sign on the dotted line
• Sign out
• Sign the pledge
• Sign up
• Signal to noise ratio
• Siren voices
• Sound the alarm
• Take the chequered flag
• Tell tale sign
• The Esso sign means happy motoring (Esso advertising slogan)
• The Pocket Rocket (Nickname of Wayne McCullough Flag of Northern Ireland Flag of Ireland)
• The Sign of the Four (Sherlock Holmes story)
• Warning signal
• Wave the bloody shirt
• Wave the white flag
• Wave your magic wand
• Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye
• Wrap yourself in the flag