Phrase thesaurus
Skeleton Phrases
158 phrases and expressions related to "skeleton".
Phrases
- A bone to pick
- A head for business and a body for sin
- A healthy mind in a healthy body
- A room without books is like a body without a soul (Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation)
- As dead as a dodo
- As dead as a doornail
- As dead as mutton
- As dry as a bone
- At the dead of night
- Back from the dead
- Bag of bones
- Better dead than red
- Better off dead
- Body and soul
- Body bag
- Body blow
- Body building
- Body heat
- Body language
- Body mass index
- Body of evidence
- Body of opinion
- Body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch
- Body painting (a form of painting that uses the human body as a canvas)
- Body politic
- Body popping
- Body snatcher
- Body surfing
- Bombed out of your skull
- Bone dry
- Bone head
- Bone idle
- Bone of contention
- Bone to pick with you
- Bone up on
- Bone weary
- Bone yard
- Brain dead
- Bring out your dead
- Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
- Chilled to the bone
- Chivalry is not dead
- Close to the bone
- Cut out the dead wood
- Cut prices to the bone
- Cut someone dead
- Dead Man Walking (Helen Prejean book)
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)
- Dead Ringer For Love (Meatloaf song)
- Dead air
- Dead and buried
- Dead and gone
- Dead cat bounce
- Dead cinch
- Dead duck
- Dead easy
- Dead end
- Dead from the neck up
- Dead giveaway
- Dead heads
- Dead heat
- Dead in the water
- Dead issue
- Dead letter
- Dead loss
- Dead man walking
- Dead meat
- Dead men tell no tales
- Dead men's shoes
- Dead of night
- Dead of winter
- Dead on arrival
- Dead on time
- Dead presidents
- Dead reckoning
- Dead ringer
- Dead to rights
- Dead to the world
- Dead white European male (derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation)
- Dead white male
- Dead wood
- Deep dark secret
- Diarrhoea of the jawbone
- Dick and Jane is dead (Encyclopaedia Britannica advertising slogan)
- Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? (Warner's Body Bra advertising slogan)
- Doesn't have a jealous bone in his body
- Dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang for telephone)
- Domestos kills all known germs - Dead! (Domestos Bleach advertising slogan)
- Down among the dead men
- Drop dead
- Drop dead gorgeous
- Drop dead list
- Drop down dead
- Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
- Feel it in your bones
- Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
- Figure painting (a form of painting in which the human body is the subject)
- Flogging a dead horse
- Fruiting body
- Given up for dead
- God is dead (philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche)
- Good and dead
- Hang by the neck until dead
- Have a bone to pick
- He's dead Jim (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
- Heavenly body
- I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
- I wouldn't be caught dead
- I'm a doctor, not a (A catchphrase from Leonard 'Bones' Mccoy In Star Trek)
- If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?
- Jump someone's bones
- Keep body and soul together
- Kicking dead whales down the beach
- Kill stone dead
- Kills bugs dead (Raid advertising slogan)
- Knock 'em dead
- Lazy bones
- Left for dead
- Let the dead bury the dead
- Like being savaged by a dead sheep
- Loud enough to waken the dead
- Make no bones about
- Make old bones
- Milk. It does a body good (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
- More dead than alive
- Never speak ill of the dead
- Numbered with the dead
- Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
- Out of your skull
- Over my dead body
- Pick the bones out of that
- Play dead
- Put flesh on your bones
- Raise the dead
- Rattle them bones
- Roll over and play dead
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play by Tom Stoppard)
- Skeleton in the cupboard
- Skeleton key
- Skeleton staff
- Skin and bone
- Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
- Stops body odour (Lifebouy Soap advertising slogan)
- Telling bone
- The Body Guard (Nickname of Baron Davis)
- The Day of the Dead (Horror movie)
- The King is dead, long live the King
- The bare bones
- The body is still warm
- The body of evidence
- The only good Indian is a dead Indian
- Vacation is a world where there are no locks on the doors or the mind or the body (Club Med Resorts advertising slogan)
- Wanted, dead or alive
- Wardrobe malfunction (when an item of clothing slips out of place to expose part of the body - typically a woman's breast)
- Work one's fingers to the bone
- Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
- You too can have a body like mine (Charles Atlas advertising slogan)
- You're a long time dead