Tempest Phrases

Phrases

• After a storm comes a calm
• Any port in a storm
• Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni movie)
• Blow a fuse
• Blow a gasket
• Blow a kiss
• Blow a raspberry (Cockney rhyming slang for fart)
• Blow away the cobwebs
• Blow by blow account
• Blow chunks
• Blow great guns
• Blow hard
• Blow hot and cold
• Blow in
• Blow it out your arse
• Blow it out your ear
• Blow job
• Blow my skirt up
• Blow off
• Blow off steam
• Blow off the stage
• Blow out of the water
• Blow smoke up your ass
• Blow some my way (Chesterfield Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Blow someone away
• Blow the gaff
• Blow the lid off
• Blow the whistle
• Blow through
• Blow to smithereens
• Blow up
• Blow winds, and crack your cheeks
• Blow with the wind
• Blow your brains out
• Blow your cover
• Blow your mind
• Blow your nose
• Blow your own horn
• Blow your own trumpet
• Blow your stack
• Blow your top
• Blow your wad
• Body blow
• By the hairs on my chinny chin chin, I'll blow your house down
• Calm before the storm
• Cook up a storm
• Create a storm (Monsoon advertising slogan)
• Cushion the blow
• Eye of the storm
• Fire storm
• Full fathom five thy father lies (from The Tempest by Shakespeare)
• Glancing blow
• Go down a storm
• In Flanders fields the poppies blow (from a poem by McCrae)
• In the teeth of a gale
• It will blow over
• Joe Blow
• Just put your lips together and blow (To Have And Have Not)
• Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
• Low blow
• Make a scene (causing a disturbance)
• Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows
• Perfect storm
• Quiet before the storm
• Soften the blow
• Storm in a teacup
• Storm of controversy
• Stormy weather
• Take cuts at someone (A baseball expression meaning taking a verbal swing or striking a blow at a reputation)
• Take the town by storm
• Tempest in a teapot
• The Kansas Comet (Nickname of Gale Sayers)
• The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• There's a storm brewing
• Visa's Delta blow to cheques (Visa Delta Debit Card advertising slogan)
• Weather the storm
• Well blow me down
• You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! (line from the Michael Caine movie The Italian Job)