Skate Phrases

Phrases

• A Fish Called Wanda (John Cleese movie)
• A slip of a thing
• A slip of the pen
• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
• All is fish that comes to the net
• Big fish eat little fish
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Bigger fish to fry
• Cheap skate
• Clyde the Glide (Nickname of basketball player Clyde Drexler)
• Cold fish
• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
• Cry stinking fish
• Different kettle of fish
• Drink like a fish
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Fish always rot from the head downwards
• Fish and finger pie (Beatles song lyric)
• Fish and guests smell after three days
• Fish it out
• Fish or cut bait
• Fish out
• Fish out of water
• Freudian slip
• Get your skates on
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
• Give someone the slip
• Give the slip
• Got bigger fish to fry
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Let it slip through your fingers
• Let something slip
• Like a fish out of water
• Like shooting fish in a barrel
• Little fish in a big pond (someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers)
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Nip slip (the inadvertent exposure of a woman's nipple)
• Odd fish
• Pretty kettle of fish
• Queer fish
• School of fish
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Skating on thin ice
• Skim milk does not come from skinny cows (Alba Dry Milk advertising slogan)
• Skim the surface
• Slip and slide
• Slip of the tongue
• Slip on a banana skin
• Slip the collar
• Slip up
• Slip, Slidin' Away (Paul Simon song)
• Slip, sliding away
• So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
• There's many a slip twixt cup and lip
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• Wet fish
• What does that have to do with the price of fish?