Stab Phrases

Phrases

• A stick to beat you with
• At knife point
• Before you could say knife
• Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
• Cancer stick
• Carrot and stick
• Clean cut boy
• Cut a cheque
• Cut a dash
• Cut a deal
• Cut a hog
• Cut a long story short
• Cut a rug
• Cut a wide swathe (make a pompous display)
• Cut above the rest
• Cut and dried
• Cut and paste
• Cut and run
• Cut and shut
• Cut and thrust
• Cut bait
• Cut corners
• Cut costs
• Cut from the same cloth
• Cut it fine
• Cut it out
• Cut loose
• Cut no ice
• Cut off at the knees
• Cut off without a penny
• Cut out for
• Cut out the dead wood
• Cut prices to the bone
• Cut some slack
• Cut someone dead
• Cut someone down in their prime
• Cut someone down to size
• Cut the Gordian knot
• Cut the cackle
• Cut the cheese
• Cut the cord
• Cut the crap
• Cut the ground from under your feet
• Cut the mustard
• Cut the umbilical cord
• Cut throat competition
• Cut through the red tape
• Cut to the chase
• Cut to the quick
• Cut up about
• Cut up rough
• Cut your coat to suit your cloth
• Cut your losses
• Cut your own throat
• Cut your teeth
• Die Another Day (James Bond movie Pierce Brosnan)
• Director's cut
• Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
• Every stick has two ends
• Final cut
• First cut
• Fish or cut bait
• Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
• Go under the knife
• Half cut
• Have a stab at
• Have your work cut out for you
• Hit by the stupid stick
• In a cleft stick
• Knife and fork it
• Like a chicken with its head cut off
• Mac the Knife (Nickname of Harold Macmillan)
• Mack The Knife (Bertold Brecht song)
• Make the cut
• Measure twice, cut once
• Miss the cut
• More than you can shake a stick at
• My stomach thinks my throat's been cut
• Not cut out for it
• Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
• On a knife edge
• Pierce through the heart
• Prime cut
• Rub salt in the wound
• Shit (or short) end of the stick
• Shit stabber (slang term for a homosexual)
• Short end of the stick
• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em
• Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them
• Speak softly and carry a big stick
• Spear carrier
• Stab in the back
• Stab in the dark
• Stick fingers
• Stick in the mud
• Stick it to the man
• Stick to you like glue
• Stick to your guns
• Stick to your knitting
• Stick with me, kid
• Stick your chin out
• Stick your neck out
• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (from a poem by Auden)
• Take a stab at
• That's not a knife; that's a knife (Crocodile Dundee)
• The Final Cut (Pink Floyd song)
• The First Cut Is The Deepest (Rod Stewart song)
• The Truth (Nickname of Paul Pierce)
• The World Is Not Enough (James Bond movie Pierce Brosnan)
• The cobbler should stick to his last
• The cut of your jib
• The shit end of the stick
• The short end of the stick
• The unkindest cut of all
• Throw enough dirt and some will stick
• Thrust into the limelight
• To cut a long story short
• Tomorrow Never Dies (James Bond movie Pierce Brosnan)
• Twist the knife
• Where's your white stick referee?
• You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife
• You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife (Country Life butter advertising slogan)