Tap Phrases

Phrases

• Away go troubles down the drain (Roto-Rooter advertising slogan)
• Beat the rap
• Brain drain
• Bum rap
• Bust a move (dance in a stylish way)
• Dance With The One That Brought You (Shania Twain song)
• Dance around the problem
• Dance attendance on
• Dance like nobody's watching
• Dance of death
• Dance on someone's grave
• Dance the night away
• Dance to someone's tune
• Dance your socks off
• Don't knock it until you've tried it
• Down pat
• Down the drain
• Drain the bilge
• Drip drip drip
• Drip feed
• Gangster rap
• Go down the drain
• Hit 'em where they live
• Hit The Road Jack (Ray Charles song)
• Hit and miss
• Hit and run
• Hit by the stupid stick
• Hit for six
• Hit home
• Hit it off
• Hit it on the nose
• Hit it out of the park (A baseball expression denoting a complete or spectacular success)
• Hit list
• Hit man
• Hit me on the hip
• Hit on
• Hit out at
• Hit out of the park
• Hit parade
• Hit paydirt
• Hit rock bottom
• Hit send
• Hit the back wall
• Hit the bar
• Hit the books
• Hit the bottle
• Hit the brakes
• Hit the bricks (a cursory slang term telling someone to leave)
• Hit the buffers
• Hit the ceiling
• Hit the deck
• Hit the ground running
• Hit the hay
• Hit the headlines
• Hit the high notes
• Hit the jackpot
• Hit the nail on the head
• Hit the panic button
• Hit the road Jack
• Hit the roof
• Hit the sack
• Hit the skids
• Hit the slide
• Hit the spot
• Hit the woodwork
• Hit town
• I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (The Beatles song)

• If your friendly neighborhood grocer doesn't have a jar knock something off a shelf on the way out (Dilly Beans advertising slogan)
• Just Dance (Lady Gaga (with Colby O'Donis song)
• Knock 'em dead
• Knock Three Times (Tony Orlando and Dawn song)
• Knock about
• Knock about comedy
• Knock back
• Knock back a few
• Knock down drag out
• Knock flat
• Knock for knock
• Knock for six
• Knock heads together
• Knock into shape
• Knock into the middle of next week
• Knock it into a cocked hat
• Knock it off
• Knock it on the head
• Knock it out of the park (A baseball expression denoting a complete or spectacular success)
• Knock knock, who's there
• Knock off
• Knock on the door
• Knock on wood
• Knock sideways
• Knock something together
• Knock spots off
• Knock the cover off the ball (A baseball expression meaning succeed beyond expectation)
• Knock the stuffing out of
• Knock the wind out of
• Knock them in the aisles
• Knock up against
• Knock your heads together
• Knock your socks off
• Knock yourself out
• Laugh like a drain
• Lead a merry dance
• Let's Dance (David Bowie song)
• Let's face the music and dance
• Looks like a bomb has hit it
• Make a song and dance about
• Murder On The Dance Floor (Sophie Ellis-Bexter song)
• Off pat
• On your Pat (Cockney rhyming slang for alone)
• Pat a cake, Pat a cake, baker's man, bake me a cake as fast as you can (line from nursery rhyme)
• Pat on the back
• Pat the Bat (Nickname of Pat Burrell)
• Pinch hit (A baseball expression denoting a substitute or stand-in)
• Pour Some Sugar On Me (Def Leppard song)
• Pour cold water on
• Pour oil on troubled waters
• Pour some sugar on me
• Rap over the knuckles
• Save The Last Dance For Me (Ben E King song)
• Save the last dance for me
• Smell the Glove (fictional album by the spoof heavy-metal band Spinal Tap)
• Song and dance
• Song and dance man
• Switch hitter (A baseball expression denoting a batter who can hit left or right handed)
• Take the rap
• The Dowager Queen of the Game Shows (Nickname of Pat Carroll)
• The Hit Dog (Nickname of Mo Vaughn)
• The Hit Man (Nickname of Bob Sanders)
• The Hit Man (Nickname of Ricky Hatton)
• The Hit Man (Nickname of Thomas Hearns)
• These go to eleven (line from the movie This Is Spinal Tap)
• Three, four, knock at the door (line from nursery rhyme)
• Tiptoe through the tulips (1920s Broadway song and Tiny Tim hit)