Sixpence Phrases

Phrases

• Big Six (Nickname of baseball player Christy Mathewson)
• Clickety click (Bingo call for number sixty six)
• Coin a phrase
• Coin of the realm
• Deep six
• Eighty six
• Five, six, pick up sticks (line from nursery rhyme)
• Gentlemen we can rebuild him. We have the technology. (A catchphrase from Six Million Dollar Man)
• Half A Sixpence (Tommy Steele song)
• Hit for six
• If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself (Albert Einstein quotation)
• Into the valley of death rode the six hundred
• Joe Six Pack
• Knock for six
• Not the full shilling
• Nothing over sixpence (Woolworths advertising slogan)
• Number Six (Pseudonym of Peter Smith The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan))
• Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye (line from nursery rhyme)
• Six and two threes
• Six degrees of separation
• Six feet under
• Six figures
• Six for gold (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Six of one and half a dozen of the other
• Six of the best
• Six pack
• Six ways to Sunday
• Six, two and even
• Sixpence worth of Heaven (Cadbury's Flake advertising slogan)
• Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves
• Take the king's shilling
• Take the shilling
• The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The other side of the coin
• Toss up (flip a coin to decide on something)
• Turns on a sixpence
• Two four six eight who do we appreciate (cheerleader chant)
• Was she worth it (Bingo call for number fifty six)