Spine 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)
• An albatross round his neck
• Answer back
• As dry as a bone
• As soon as my back is turned
• At knife point
• At last. A pickle that bites back (Marcus Valley Pickles advertising slogan)
• At the back of my mind
• At this point in time
• Back In Black (AC/DC album)
• Back In The USSR (The Beatles song)
• Back To Black (Amy Winehouse song)
• Back To The Future
• Back at it
• Back at the ranch
• Back door man
• Back down
• Back from the dead
• Back in St. Olaf ... (A catchphrase from The Golden Girls)
• Back in business
• Back in the day
• Back in the saddle
• Back number
• Back of beyond
• Back off
• Back office bean counter
• Back on track
• Back on your feet
• Back out
• Back room boy
• Back seat driver
• Back slang
• Back street abortion
• Back teeth are floating
• Back the field
• Back the wrong horse
• Back to back
• Back to basics
• Back to nature
• Back to school
• Back to square one
• Back to the drawing board
• Back to the salt mine
• Back up
• Back woods
• Behind your back
• Beside the point
• Bite back
• 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
• Bone dry
• Bone head
• Bone idle
• Bone of contention
• Bone to pick with you
• Bone up on
• Bone weary
• Bone yard
• Bounce back
• Break the back of something
• Break your back
• Break your neck
• Breathing down your neck
• Brush back (A baseball expression meaning to subvert or threaten verbally)
• But at my back I always hear (from a poem by Marvell)
• By the scruff of your neck
• California licence plate (Nickname for tattoo on lower back)
• Cast your mind back
• Chilled to the bone
• Close to the bone
• Come back for more
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Cover your back
• Crawl back into your shell
• Cut prices to the bone
• Dead from the neck up
• Deep Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Die back
• 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)
• Double back
• Drive your point home
• Every rose has its thorn
• Eyes in the back of your head
• Face like the back of a bus
• Fall back on
• Fed up to the back teeth
• Feel 95 point great (Capital FM advertising slogan)
• Fight back
• Fight back the tears
• Figure painting (a form of painting in which the human body is the subject)
• Flash point
• Fruiting body
• Get Back (The Beatles song)
• Get a gold star (earn a merit point for doing well)
• Get back at
• Get back on your feet
• Get back together
• Get back your oo with Typhoo (Typhoo Tea advertising slogan)
• Get it in the neck
• Get off my back
• Get straight to the point
• Get the monkey off my back
• Get the point
• Go back on a promise
• Go back on one's word (Retract a previous promise)
• Go behind your back
• Gregory Peck (Cockney rhyming slang for neck)
• Handbrake turn (180 degree turn in a car by locking the back wheels)

• Hang back
• Hang by the neck until dead
• Hark back to
• Have a bone to pick
• He's got a yellow streak down his back
• Heavenly body
• Hit the back wall
• Hold back on
• Holding back the years
• I Want You Back (The Jackson 5 song)
• I scratch your back and you scratch mine
• I'll be back (A catchphrase from The Terminator)
• If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?
• In point of fact
• In the back of my mind
• It fell off the back of a lorry
• It's All Coming Back To Me Now (Meatloaf song)
• Jack's back (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• Jumping off point
• Just when you thought it was safe to go back in water (Jaws II advertising tagline)
• Keep body and soul together
• Kick back
• Kick back and enjoy
• Knock back
• Knock back a few
• Know like the back of your hand
• Laid back
• Lie back and think of England
• Like water off a duck's back
• Make a back
• Make a rod for your own back
• Meanwhile back at the... (A catchphrase from Superfriends)
• Milk. It does a body good (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Money back guarantee
• Moot point
• My Back Pages (Bob Dylan song)
• My Boomerang Won't Come Back (Charlie Drake song)
• Neck and crop
• Neck and neck
• Neck beard (hair growth on the neck)
• Never look back
• No going back
• Not in my back yard
• Not to put too fine a point on it
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• On the back burner
• On the back foot
• One hand tied behind your back
• One step forward, two steps back
• Over my dead body
• Pain in the neck
• Pat on the back
• Pin your ears back
• Plough something back
• Point Break (Keanu Reeves movie)
• Point Percy at the porcelain
• Point blank range
• Point duty
• Point of sale
• Point of view
• Point out
• Point the finger
• Point to point
• Press your point home
• Pump your money back into Canada (Petro Canada, early advertising slogan)
• Put on the back burner
• Put the clock back
• Put the freshness back (Shake And Vac advertising slogan)
• Put the fun back into driving (Vauxhall Motors advertising slogan)
• Put your back into it
• Put your back up
• Right back at ya
• See the back of someone
• Silly Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Single point of contact
• Skin and bone
• Smell the Glove (fictional album by the spoof heavy-metal band Spinal Tap)
• Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast (A catchphrase from Red Dwarf)
• Spring forward, Fall back
• Stab in the back
• Step on a crack, break your mother's back
• Stick your neck out
• Sticking point
• Stops body odour (Lifebouy Soap advertising slogan)
• Stretch a point
• Take a back seat
• Take the shirt off your back
• Talking point
• Telling bone
• The Backbone of England (Nickname of The Pennine Hills)
• The Backbone of North America (Nickname of The Rocky Mountains)
• The Bitch Is Back (Elton John song)
• The Body Guard (Nickname of Baron Davis)
• The Empire Strikes Back (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCollough book)
• The body is still warm
• The body of evidence
• The case in point
• The last straw that broke the camel's back
• The point of contact (Sprint advertising slogan)
• The point of no return
• These go to eleven (line from the movie This Is Spinal Tap)
• They never come back
• This neck of the woods
• Thorn in my side
• Thorn in the flesh
• Throw it back in your face
• Tipping point
• To Hell and back
• To get one's back up
• Turn back the clock
• Turn the clock back
• Turn your back on
• Two steps forward and one step back
• Up to your neck in trouble
• Vacation is a world where there are no locks on the doors or the mind or the body (Club Med Resorts advertising slogan)
• Wardrobe malfunction (when an item of clothing slips out of place to expose part of the body - typically a woman's breast)
• Watch your back
• What's the point?
• Win by a neck
• Wind at your back
• Wind your neck in
• Work one's fingers to the bone
• You can't take it back, it's out there (When Harry met Sally)
• You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
• You too can have a body like mine (Charles Atlas advertising slogan)
• Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni movie)