Skeleton Phrases

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