Squid Phrases

Phrases

• A Fish Called Wanda (John Cleese movie)
• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
• All is fish that comes to the net
• As black as ink
• As gay as pink ink
• Before the ink was dry
• Big fish eat little fish
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Bigger fish to fry
• Cold fish
• Cry stinking fish
• Damp squib
• Different kettle of fish
• Drink like a fish
• Fish always rot from the head downwards
• Fish and finger pie (Beatles song lyric)
• Fish and guests smell after three days
• Fish it out
• Fish or cut bait
• Fish out
• Fish out of water
• Fresh ink
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
• Got bigger fish to fry
• Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid (Fairy Liquid advertising slogan)
• If I Didn't Care (The Ink Spots song)
• In An Octopus's Garden In The Shade (The Beatles song)
• Ink in
• Like a fish out of water
• Like shooting fish in a barrel
• Liquid assets
• Liquid engineering (Castrol Motor Oil advertising slogan)
• Liquid lunch
• Little fish in a big pond (someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers)
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Octopus's Garden (The Beatles song)
• Odd fish
• Pen and ink (Cockney rhyming slang for stink)
• Pretty kettle of fish
• Queer fish
• School of fish
• So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• Wet fish
• What does that have to do with the price of fish?