Sting Phrases

Phrases

• A bite to eat
• A hazelnut in every bite (Topic advertising slogan)
• A world of pain
• All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt (Charles M. Schulz quotation)
• As busy as a bee
• At a pinch
• Barking dogs seldom bite
• Barq's has bite (Barq's root beer advertising slogan)
• Bee in your bonnet
• Bite back
• Bite me
• Bite off more than you can chew
• Bite someone's head off
• Bite the big one
• Bite the bullet
• Bite the dust
• Bite to eat
• Bite your hand off
• Bite your lip
• Bite your nails
• Bite your tongue
• Busy bee
• Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! (line from the movie 25th Hour)
• Do You Really Want to Hurt Me (Culture Club song)
• Don't bite the hand that feeds you
• Don't cry before you're hurt
• Doubled up in pain
• Drown the pain
• Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (Police song)
• Face like a bulldog chewing a wasp
• Feel the pinch
• Feeling no pain
• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
• Grab a bite to eat
• Half inch (Cockney rhyming slang for pinch)
• Have a bite to eat
• His bark is worse than his bite
• How Deep Is Your Love? (Bee Gees song)
• Hurt feelings
• Hurt pride

• Islands In The Stream (Bee Gees song)
• It's all fun and games until somebody gets hurt
• Jive talkin' (Bee Gees song)
• Like a bee to a honeypot
• Love bite
• Night Fever (Bee Gees song)
• Night night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite
• No pain, no gain
• On pain of death
• Pain barrier
• Pain in the arse
• Pain in the bum
• Pain in the butt
• Pain in the neck
• Pinch hit (A baseball expression denoting a substitute or stand-in)
• Pinch yourself
• Pinch, punch, first of the month
• Put the bite on someone
• Put the hurt on
• Saturday Night Fever (Bee Gees album)
• Second bite of the cherry
• Seven year itch
• Sound bite
• Stayin' Alive (Bee Gees song)
• Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
• Take a bite out of crime
• Take a bite out of crime! (National Crime Prevention Council advertising slogan)
• Take a bite out of something
• Take with a pinch of salt
• Tee Bee (Nickname of Terrell Brandon)
• The Big Hurt (Nickname of Frank Thomas)
• The Elephant Man (John Hurt / Anthony Hopkins / David Lynch movie)
• The Flight of the Bumble Bee
• The Prince of Pain (Nickname of comedian Richard Lewis)
• The bee's knees
• The dogs kids love to bite (Armour Hot Dogs advertising slogan)
• What you don't know can't hurt you
• Where the bee sucks, there suck I
• You get a big delight in every bite of Hostess snacks (Hostess advertising slogan)
• You only hurt the one you love