Spike Phrases

Phrases

• A Man For All Seasons (Paul Schofield / Robert Bolt movie)
• Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall (Spike Milligan book)
• All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (Spike Jones song)
• All men are cremated equal (Spike Milligan line)
• Another nail in the coffin
• As bright as a new pin
• As neat as a new pin
• As straight as an arrow
• At stake
• Bernie, the bolt (A catchphrase from The Golden Shot)
• Bolt down
• Bolt from the blue
• Bolt hole
• Bolt upright
• Bow and arrow squad
• Broken Arrow (James Stewart movie)
• Burned at the stake
• Cash on the nail
• Chip and pin
• Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard (Spike Milligan line)
• Coffin nail
• Contraceptives should be used on all conceivable occasions (Spike Milligan line)
• Every rose has its thorn
• Fight tooth and nail
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost (line from nursery rhyme)
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
• Hard to pin down
• Hit the nail on the head
• I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (Spike Jones song)
• I told you I was ill (Spike Milligan line inscribed on his gravestone)
• King pin
• Like a bolt from the blue
• Like trying to nail jello to a wall
• Make a bolt for the door
• My friend, Joe Holmes, is now a horse (Arrow Shirts advertising slogan)
• Nail a lie
• Nail down
• Nail your colours to the mast
• Off the peg
• On the nail
• Pay on the nail
• Peg out
• Pin money
• Pin the tail on the donkey
• Pin your ears back
• Pin your hopes on
• Pull the pin
• See a pin and pick it up
• See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day
• Square peg in a round hole
• Stake your claim
• Take down a peg or two
• The Peg (Nickname of Winnipeg Manitoba)
• The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCollough book)
• The first network for men (Spike TV advertising slogan)
• There's a lot of it about (A catchphrase from Spike Milligan)
• Thorn in my side
• Thorn in the flesh
• Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
• Tooth and nail
• When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
• You could have heard a pin drop