Strain Phrases

Phrases

• Add insult to injury
• At a stretch
• At full stretch
• Best of breed
• Blood injury
• Breed apart
• Breed like flies
• Breed like rabbits
• Bring pressure to bear
• Buckle under the strain
• Bulldog breed
• By no stretch of the imagination
• Do yourself an injury
• Don't try this at home
• Don't try to run before you can walk
• Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs
• Don't try to walk before you can crawl
• Dying breed
• Exert one's authority
• Eye it try it buy it! (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
• Fruits of your labour
• Give it the old college try
• Hard labour
• Has your girl turned into a refrigerator? If her air is arctic, try MUM (Mum Deodorant advertising slogan)
• Head like a sieve
• Home stretch
• If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again
• If gas pains persist, try Volkswagen (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• Imagine no religion, it's easy if you try
• Labour in vain
• Labour intensive
• Labour of love
• Labour pains
• Labour saving device
• Labour under a misapprehension
• Last ditch effort
• Leak like a sieve

• Let the train take the strain (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Loves Labour Lost
• Memory like a sieve
• More than flesh and blood can stand
• Nice try
• Peer pressure
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Pressure of work
• Strain every nerve
• Straining at the leash
• Stretch a point
• Stretch limo
• Stretch your legs
• Stretch your wings
• Strike out swinging (A baseball expression meaning to fail while giving it your best effort)
• Surface tension
• Swing for the fences (A baseball expression meaning try for a substantial gain)
• The quality of mercy is not strained (from The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare)
• These little things are sent to try us
• This Happy Breed (David Lean movie)
• Time pressure
• To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield (from a poem by Tennyson)
• Try A Little Tenderness (Otis Redding song)
• Try everything once, except incest and folk dancing (Sir Thomas Beecham quotation)
• Try it on the dog
• Try it, you'll like it (Alka Seltzer advertising slogan)
• Try your hand
• Try your luck
• Under Pressure (David Bowie song)
• Under pressure
• Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman! (Coty Perfumes advertising slogan)
• War of nerves
• We try harder (Avis car rental advertising slogan)
• We're number two. We try harder (Avis Rent-a-Car advertising slogan)
• Weather bomb (a rapidly deepening low pressure area causing severe storms)
• Why ask why? Try Bud Dry (Budweiser Earl advertising slogan)
• You've seen the rest, now try the best