String Phrases

Phrases

• A String Of Pearls (Glenn Miller tune)
• A bull and cow (Cockney rhyming slang for row or argument)
• A chain is only as strong as its weakest link
• As camp as a row of tents
• As smooth as silk
• At the end of your rope
• Ball and chain
• Bless his/her cotton socks
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Louis de Bernieres book)
• Cat's Cradle
• Chain gang
• Chain letter
• Chain of command
• Chain of fools (Aretha Franklin song)
• Chain reaction
• Chain smoker
• Chain smoking
• Chicago piano
• Cut the cord
• Cut the umbilical cord
• Daisy chain
• Desolation Row (Bob Dylan song)
• Do you know the piano's on my foot?
• Don't shoot the piano player
• Don't yank my chain
• Fibre art (Artwork consisting of natural or synthetic fibres)
• Food chain
• Get your ducks in a row
• Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself
• Give him enough rope and he'll hang himself
• Got the world on a string
• Hanging by a thread
• Hard row to hoe
• Harp on about
• Harp puts out the fire (Harp Lager advertising slogan)
• Have a second string to your bow have
• He will never play the piano again
• Highly strung

• Hold the purse strings
• How long is a piece of string?
• I took my harp to the party but no one asked me to play
• In high cotton
• In quick succession
• It's jack-a-licious! (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• Jack's back (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• Jump rope
• Like a puppet on a string
• Live on a shoestring
• Lose the thread
• Money for old rope
• Moral fibre
• More than one string to your bow
• Murderers' Row (A baseball expression denoting a group of talented individuals or valuable assets)
• No strings attached
• On death row
• On skid row
• One two many and you might turn Bertie (Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts advertising slogan)
• Pull strings
• Rope in
• Row up Salt River
• Row, row, row your boat
• Shoestring budget
• String along
• String someone along
• Thai - smooth as silk (Thai Airways International advertising slogan)
• The Cotton State (Nickname of the US state of Alabama)
• The Indian rope trick
• The old ball and chain
• There's many a good tune played on an old piano
• Tied to his mother's apron strings
• Tough row to hoe
• Tug at your heartstrings
• Two strings to his bow
• Wait just a cotton picking minute
• With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row (line from nursery rhyme)
• Yarn bombing (Adorning street furntiure and buildings with knitted items as a form of graffiti)
• You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear