Station Phrases

Phrases

• 69 position
• Action stations
• All stations go
• As deaf as a post
• Base station
• Battle stations
• Come to a screeching halt
• Cop shop
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Democracy Wall (wall in Bejing China where dissidents post letters poems etc)
• Ducks on a pond (A baseball expression meaning having runners in scoring position)
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• First among equals (the most senior person in a group of equal rank)
• First past the post
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Gravy train
• Grind to a halt
• Hey, Soul Sister (Train song)
• Ideas above your station
• If you don't get it, you don't get it (The Washington Post advertising slogan)
• Jockeying for position
• Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Let the train take the strain (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Long Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Stop (field position in the game of cricket)
• Major league (A baseball expression meaning at the top rank)
• Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Missionary position
• Name, rank, and serial number
• Night Train (Nickname of Dick Lane)
• Pipped at the post
• Pole position
• Post early for Christmas (Post Office advertising slogan)
• Post haste
• Post modern
• Post mortem
• Post partum
• Pull rank
• Pushed from pillar to post
• Rank and file
• Rear admiral (naval rank)
• Road train
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Set in train
• Short Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Somebody somewhere wants a letter from you (British Post Office advertising slogan)
• Soul train
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Strangers On A Train (Farley Granger / Alfred Hitchcock movie)
• Take The A Train (Duke Ellington tune)
• The Big Train (Nickname of Walter Johnson)
• The cheque is in the post
• The light at the end of the tunnel may just be a train coming the other way
• The station of the nation (Radio Caroline advertising slogan)
• The station of the stars (Radio Luxembourg advertising slogan)
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
• This is the age of the train (British Rail advertising slogan)
• This position closed
• Train crash
• Train of thought
• Train whistle blowing
• Train wreck
• Tuxedo Junction (Glenn Miller song)
• Ukraine Train (Nickname of Vitaly Potapenko)
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)
• Winning post