Stiletto Phrases

Phrases

• A foot in both camps
• Achilles' heel
• At knife point
• At this point in time
• Athlete's foot
• Before you could say knife
• Beside the point
• Bound hand and foot
• Brought to heel
• Cloak and dagger
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Do you know the piano's on my foot?
• Down at heel
• Drive your point home
• Feel 95 point great (Capital FM advertising slogan)
• Flash point
• Fleet of foot
• Foot in mouth
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• Foot in the door
• Foot the bill
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost (line from nursery rhyme)
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
• Get a gold star (earn a merit point for doing well)
• Get off on the right foot
• Get off on the wrong foot
• Get straight to the point
• Get the point
• Get your foot in the door
• Go under the knife
• High heel sneakers
• I don't believe it (A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew, One Foot In The Grave)
• I'll go to the foot of our stairs
• If the shoe fits, wear it
• In point of fact
• Is this a dagger which I see before me?
• Jumping off point
• Knife and fork it
• Mac the Knife (Nickname of Harold Macmillan)
• Mack The Knife (Bertold Brecht song)
• Moot point
• Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
• Not to put too fine a point on it
• On a knife edge
• On the back foot
• On the wrong foot
• One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
• One foot in the grave
• One two buckle my shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• 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
• Put a foot wrong
• Put one foot in front of the other
• Put your best foot forward
• Put your foot down
• Put your foot in it
• Put your foot in your mouth
• Set foot in
• Shoot yourself in the foot
• Silly Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Single point of contact
• Sticking point
• Stretch a point
• Talking point
• That's not a knife; that's a knife (Crocodile Dundee)
• The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The boot is on the other foot
• The case in point
• The point of contact (Sprint advertising slogan)
• The point of no return
• The shoe's on the other foot
• There was an old woman who lived in a shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• Tipping point
• Turn on your heel
• Twist the knife
• Under the heel of
• Waiting for the other shoe to drop
• Walk to heel
• What's the point?
• When your shoes shine, so do you (Kiwi Shoe Polish advertising slogan)
• Work the rabbit's foot on
• 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)
• Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni movie)