Sink Phrases

Phrases

• Atishoo atishoo all fall down
• Basin Street Blues (Louis Armstrong song)
• Bovril prevents that sinking feeling (Bovril advertising slogan)
• Bowl over
• Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually
• Come with a begging bowl
• Dip in
• Dip your pen in gall
• Dip your toe into the water
• Dip your wick
• Double dip
• Double dip recession
• Double dipping (Taking a second dip into food using an item that one has already put into ones mouth)
• Double-dip recession (A financial recession with two low points)
• Drop like a stone
• Everything but the kitchen sink
• Fall about laughing
• Fall about your ears
• Fall amongst friends
• Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
• Fall apart at the seams
• Fall asleep
• Fall back on
• Fall between the cracks
• Fall by the wayside
• Fall down on the job
• Fall flat
• Fall flat on your face
• Fall foul of the law
• Fall from grace
• Fall guy
• Fall in
• Fall in love
• Fall into bad habits
• Fall into line
• Fall like a stone
• Fall off the radar
• Fall off the wagon
• Fall on deaf ears
• Fall on hard times
• Fall on stony ground
• Fall on your feet
• Fall on your sword
• Fall out
• Fall out of favour
• Fall out of love with
• Fall prey to
• Fall through
• Fall through the cracks
• Fat berg (a solid mass of grease in a sewer)
• Flag fall (An Australian expression for a fixed starting fee, typically at the start of a taxi ride)
• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
• Go down with the ship
• Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan song)
• Hook line and sinker
• I'd rather have a bowl of Coco Pops (Coco Pops advertising slogan)
• If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything (Malcolm X quotation)
• Immerse oneself in
• Into every life a little rain must fall
• Kitchen sink drama
• Let the chips fall where they may
• Life is just a bowl of cherries
• Like rats leaving a sinking ship
• Loose lips sink ships (World War II advertising slogan)
• Man overboard
• My heart sank into my boots
• Nervous wreck
• Old soak
• One fall, two submissions or a knockout
• Pride comes before a fall
• Riding for a fall
• Ring aring of roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rub a dub dub men in a tub
• Save our souls
• Sink estate
• Sink like a stone
• Sink or swim
• Sink without trace
• Sink your teeth into it
• Spring forward, Fall back
• Sunk without trace
• Take a dip
• Take a fall for
• The bigger they are the harder they fall
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The rise and fall of the Roman Empire
• Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold (from a poem by Yeats)
• Thrown in at the deep end
• Train wreck
• Tub of lard
• Turn turtle
• United we stand divided we fall
• When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
• Women and children first