Spade Phrases

Phrases

• As black as the ace of spades
• As skinny as a rake
• As thin as a rake
• Bucket and spade holiday
• Call a spade a shovel
• Call a spade a spade
• Can you dig it?
• Dig 'em! (Sugar Smacks advertising slogan)
• Dig A Pony (Beatles song)
• Dig deep
• Dig for victory (WWII slogan)

• Dig in the ribs
• Dig this
• Dig up the dirt
• Dig your heels in
• Dig your own grave
• Digging the dancing queen (ABBA lyric)
• Fly now. Shovel later (Eastern Airlines advertising slogan)
• Fork out
• Fork the tree
• In spades
• Knife and fork it

• Like shit off a shovel
• Rake in the money
• Rake it in
• Rake over the ashes
• Rake over the coals
• Shovel ready (a building project in which all the preliminaries have been arranged)
• Spade work
• The right tool for the job
• Tool around