Slog Phrases

Phrases

• A nod is as good as a wink to a blind bat (A line from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• As blind as a bat
• Axe to grind
• Bat Masterson (Nickname of American western character William Barclay Masterson)
• Bat Out Of Hell (Meatloaf song)
• Bat from the pavilion end (slang term for a homosexual)
• Bat the breeze
• Bat the idea around
• Bat your eyes
• Bump and grind
• Carrying his bat
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Daily grind (the daily routine of a dull or boring job)
• Deep Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Don't let the bastards grind you down
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Grind to a halt
• I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat (Winston Churchill quotation)
• It's not cricket

• Jimminy Cricket
• Keep a straight bat
• Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Like a bat out of hell
• Long Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Stop (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mr. Cricket (Nickname of Michael Hussey - Australian cricketer)
• Off you own bat
• Pat the Bat (Nickname of Pat Burrell)
• Right off the bat (A baseball expression meaning immediately without delay)
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Slog away
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• The sound of leather on willow (sound of the ball on the bat in cricket)
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)