Tack Phrases

Phrases

• A stitch in time saves nine
• Another nail in the coffin
• As sharp as a tack
• Bedroom tax (slang term for UK's removal of Spare Room Subsidy)
• Brass tacks (Cockney rhyming slang for facts)
• By hook or by crook
• Captain Hook (Nickname of baseball manager George Anderson)
• Cash on the nail
• Coffin nail
• Connect the dots
• Fat tax
• Fight tooth and nail
• 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 down to brass tacks
• Hit the nail on the head
• Hook line and sinker
• Hook up with
• If you can't beat em, join em
• If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our Club (Jacob's Club advertising slogan)
• Join forces
• Join hands
• Join in marriage
• Join the Pepsi People (Pepsi advertising slogan)
• Join the club
• Join the colours
• Join the dots
• Join the professionals (British Army advertising slogan)

• Join the tea-set (Typhoo Tea advertising slogan)
• Join up
• Left Hook (Nickname of Jeff Lacy)
• Let off the hook
• Like trying to nail jello to a wall
• Nail a lie
• Nail down
• Nail your colours to the mast
• Not a stitch on
• Off the hook
• Off the peg
• On the nail
• Only connect
• Pay on the nail

• Peg out
• Ring off the hook
• Sharp as a tack
• Sling your hook
• Square peg in a round hole
• Stitch up
• Take down a peg or two
• The Peg (Nickname of Winnipeg Manitoba)
• Tooth and nail
• Value added tax
• When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail