Stain Phrases

Phrases

• A lick of paint
• A splash of colour
• As boring as watching paint dry
• Big Mac (Nickname of baseball player Mark McGwire)
• Black mark
• Black spot
• Blind spot
• Blot on the landscape
• Blot your copybook
• Calgon, take me away! (Calgon advertising slogan)
• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education (Mark Twain quotation)
• Chocolate is better in colour (M&M's advertising slogan)
• Close to the mark
• Colour coded
• Colour coordinated
• Colour me gone
• Colour me happy
• Colour my world
• Colour one's view
• Colour up
• Covers the earth (Sherwin Williams paint advertising slogan)
• Deep Throat (Nickname of Mark Felt)
• Do I have to paint you a picture?
• Every Step Of The Way (Mark Ballas song)
• Gentlemen of colour
• Get off the mark
• Got a soft spot for
• Have a soft spot for
• Hit the spot
• Hold it up to the light, not a stain and shining light (Surf Washing Powder advertising slogan)
• Horse of a different colour
• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything (Mark Twain quotation)
• In a spot
• In a tight spot
• Johnny on the spot
• Lend colour to
• Let's see the colour of your money
• Mad Dog (Nickname of Mark Madsen)
• Make your mark
• Man on the spot
• Mark down
• Mark my words
• Mark time
• Mark your card
• Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow (Mark Twain quotation)
• Night soil
• Off colour
• Off the mark
• On the mark
• On the spot
• On your mark, get set, go
• Paint It Black (Rolling Stones song)
• Paint Your Wagon (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Paint the town red
• Paint yourself into a corner
• People of colour
• Pepsi Cola hits the spot (Pepsi advertising slogan)
• Quick off the mark
• Riot of colour
• Show me the spot (Abraham Lincoln quotation)
• Spot on
• Spot the ball
• Spot the difference
• Step up to the mark (mark yourself ready to take responsibility)
• Sweet spot
• That's going to leave a mark
• The Adventure of the Second Stain (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Colour Of My Love (Celine Dion album)
• The better stain getter (Ultra Biz Detergent advertising slogan)
• The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read (Mark Twain quotation)
• The mark of Cain
• The mark of a man (Old Spice aftershave advertising slogan)
• The mark of the Beast
• The perfect spot
• To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
• Up to the mark
• War paint
• Way off the mark
• What colour is the sky in your world?
• When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob Dylan song)
• Winning is the mark of the Rebel (Rebel Sport advertising slogan)
• X marks the spot
• You can have any colour as long as it's black