Tale Phrases

Phrases

• A Case Of Identity (Sherlock Holmes story)
• A Scandal in Bohemia (Sherlock Holmes story)
• A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes story)
• A Tale Of Two Cities (Charles Dickens book)
• A legend in his own lifetime
• A legend in the making
• A piece of tail
• Aga saga
• All behind, like a cow's tail
• America's story teller (Kodak advertising slogan)
• An everyday story of country folk (A catchphrase from The Archers)
• And thereby hangs a tale
• As you make your bed so must you lie on it
• Bald-faced lie
• Bare-faced lie
• Breaking story
• Can't make head or tail of it
• Character driven fiction
• Chase your own tail
• Chasing tail (of a man pursuing the female sex)
• Cock and bull story
• Couldn't make head or tail of it
• Cover story
• Cut a long story short
• Dead men tell no tales
• End of story
• Every picture tells a story (Doanes Backache Kidney Pills advertising slogan)
• Fact not fiction
• Fairytale ending (a happy simplistic ending to a story similar to those found in fairy tales)
• Feed a dog its own tail
• Fishy story
• Get off my tail
• Give the lie to
• Got a tiger by the tail
• Got his tail up
• Grow a tail
• He just wouldn't let it lie
• Hips Don't Lie (Shakira with Wyclef Jean song)
• His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes story)
• I cannot tell a lie
• I tell a lie
• If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas
• In two shakes of a lamb's tail
• Inside story
• It was the best of times: it was the worst of times (the opening line of A Tale Of Two Cities)
• L A Story (Steve Martin movie)
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Let sleeping dogs lie
• Lie back and think of England
• Lie doggo
• Lie down on the job
• Lie down with dogs: get up with fleas
• Lie fallow
• Lie in
• Lie in state
• Lie in wait
• Lie like a trooper
• Lie low
• Lie through his teeth
• Little white lie
• Live a lie
• Live to tell the tale
• Living legend
• Long Tall Sally (Little Richard song)
• Love Story (Ali MacGraw / Ryan O'Neal movie)
• Love Story (Taylor Swift song)
• Love means never having to say you're sorry (Love Story)
• Love the Way You Lie (Eminem with Rihanna song)
• Make your bed and lie in it
• My side of the story
• Myth versus reality
• Nail a lie
• Never tell tales out of school
• Nose to tail
• Old wives' tale
• One side of the story
• Pin the tail on the donkey
• Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino movie)
• Rag, tag and bobtail
• Same old story
• See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day
• Silver Blaze (Sherlock Holmes story)
• Sit on someone's tail
• Sob story
• Someone ears are burning
• Story of my life
• Stranger than fiction
• Swallows And Amazons (children's adventure story by Arthur Ransome)
• Tail between your legs
• Tales of the unexpected
• Tall dark and handsome
• Tall in the saddle
• Tall order
• Tall task
• Tattle tale
• Tell tale sign
• Tell tales out of school
• The Adventure of Black Peter (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Abbey Grange (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Cardboard Box (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Creeping Man (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Crooked Man (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Dancing Men (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Dying Detective (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Empty House (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Gloria Scott (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Illustrious Client (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Lion's Mane (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Naval Treaty (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Priory School (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Red Circle (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Red-Headed League (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Reigate Squire (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Resident Patient (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Retired Colourman (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Second Stain (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Speckled Band (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Three Gables (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Three Garridebs (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Three Students (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Yellow Face (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Boscombe Valley Mystery (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Final Problem (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Five Orange Pips (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Greatest Story Ever Told (Charlton Heston movie)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Invisible Man (HG Wells story and later a film)
• The Lord of the Rings (J R R Tolkien story and Peter Jackson movie)
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales (Oliver Sacks book)
• The Man with the Twisted Lip (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Palm Beach Story (Claudette Colbert movie)
• The Philadelphia Story (Cary Grant / Katharine Hepburn movie)
• The Problem of Thor Bridge (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne story)
• The Sign of the Four (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Story Of Tracy Beaker (children's story by Jacqueline Wilson)
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Winters Tale
• The camera doesn't lie
• The lie of the land
• The lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep (Woody Allen line)
• The man, the myth, the legend
• The old lie: Dulce et Decorum Est (from a poem by Owen)
• The one that got away
• The tail wagging the dog
• Thereby hangs a tale
• To cut a long story short
• To infinty and beyond (line from the movie Toy Story)
• To make a long story short
• Too Tall (Nickname of Ed Jones)
• Top and tail
• Toy Story (Tom Hanks movie)
• Truth is stranger than fiction
• Two shakes of a lamb's tail
• Urban myth
• Walk tall
• We really move our tail for you (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie)
• What becomes a legend most? (Blackglama Great Lakes Mink advertising slogan)
• What's The Story Morning Glory? (Oasis album)
• Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away (Robert Maynard Hutchins quotation)
• Where the rubber meets the road (where the important facts or realities lie)
• With your tail between your legs
• Yarn bombing (Adorning street furntiure and buildings with knitted items as a form of graffiti)
• You made your bed, now lie in it