Smooth Phrases

Phrases

• A soft answer turneth away wrath
• After a storm comes a calm
• And that's flat
• Another level
• As flat as a pancake
• As hard as iron
• As smooth as a baby's bottom
• As smooth as silk
• Big Smooth (Nickname of basketball player Charlie Villanueva)
• Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it
• Black velvet
• Blue Velvet (David Lynch movie)
• Break even
• Busted flush
• Calm abiding
• Calm before the storm
• Calm down
• Calm down, calm down (A catchphrase from Harry Enfield In The Scousers)
• Cast iron alibi
• Cast iron guarantee
• Cool, calm and collected
• Creamy, smooth, refreshing (Calders Cream Ale advertising slogan)
• Do your level best
• Don't get mad get even
• Dr. Iron Fist (Nickname of Vitali Klitschko)
• Even Steven
• Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while
• Even a worm will turn
• Even at the turning of the tide
• Even chance
• Even handed
• Even money
• Even out
• Even up with
• Even your best friend won't tell you (Lifebuoy Soap advertising slogan)
• Even your best friends won't tell you (Listerine Mouthwash advertising slogan)
• Fall flat
• Fall flat on your face
• Feel the Velvet (Black Velvet Whiskey advertising slogan)
• First flush
• Flat broke
• Flat out
• Flat out like a lizard drinking
• Flatten the pyramid
• Flush it out
• Get even
• Get the creative juices flowing
• Get your family into Shape, without them even noticing (St. Ivel Yogurt advertising slogan)
• Go soft
• Got a soft spot for
• Granny flat
• Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid (Fairy Liquid advertising slogan)
• Have a flat
• Have a soft spot for
• I'll level with you
• In a flat spin
• In no time flat
• In nothing flat
• In uniform
• Iron Man (Nickname of John Terry)
• Iron Mike (Nickname of Mike Tyson)
• Iron fist in velvet glove
• Iron hoof (Cockney rhyming slang for poof)
• Iron out
• Iron out the wrinkles
• Is it hot in here or is it me? (Typically used by menopausal women having a hot flush)
• It was the night before Christmas and all round the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse

• It's how the smooth take the rough (Range Rover advertising slogan)
• Keep an even keel
• Keep calm and carry on
• Knock flat
• Level head
• Level headed
• Level off
• Level pegging
• Level playing field
• Level temper
• Level up
• Level with
• Like shit through a goose
• Little gentleman in the velvet coat
• Mellow out
• Mellow yellow
• National Velvet (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Never give a sucker an even break (A catchphrase from W C Fields)
• On an even keel
• On the flat
• On the level
• One's level best
• Pump iron
• Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
• Rule with a rod of iron
• Rule with an iron fist
• Running like clockwork
• Scrap Iron (Nickname of Phil Garner)
• Sea level
• Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness (from a poem by Keats)
• See America at see level (Amtrak advertising slogan)
• Service level agreement
• Silky smooth
• Six, two and even
• Smooth move
• Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
• Smooth sailing
• Smooth talk
• Soft in the head
• Soft pedal
• Soft power
• Soft soap
• Soft target
• Soft touch
• Soft underbelly
• Soft, strong and very long (Andrex toilet tissue advertising slogan)
• Strike while the iron is hot
• Take it to the next level
• Take the rough with the smooth
• Teflon president
• Thai - smooth as silk (Thai Airways International advertising slogan)
• The Big Smooth (Nickname of Sam Perkins)
• The Iron Chancellor (Nickname of Otto Von Bismark)
• The Iron Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist states)
• The Iron Duke (Nickname of Arthur Duke of Wellington)
• The Iron Horse (Nickname of Lou Gehrig)
• The Iron Lady (Nickname of Margaret Thatcher)
• The Iron Man (Nickname of Cal Ripken Jr.)
• The Man in the Iron Mask
• The Velvet Fog (Nickname of singer Mel Torme)
• The course of true love never did run smooth
• Water seeks its own level
• Wax and wane
• Wax lyrical
• Wax wroth
• Whole ball of wax
• You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear

Related

• As smooth as a baby's bottom
• As smooth as silk
• Big Smooth (Nickname of basketball player Charlie Villanueva)
• Creamy, smooth, refreshing (Calders Cream Ale advertising slogan)
• It's how the smooth take the rough (Range Rover advertising slogan)
• Silky smooth
• Smooth move
• Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
• Smooth sailing
• Smooth talk
• Take the rough with the smooth
• Thai - smooth as silk (Thai Airways International advertising slogan)
• The Big Smooth (Nickname of Sam Perkins)
• The course of true love never did run smooth