Tenpin Phrases

Phrases

• A diller, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar
• Address the ball (golfing term denoting readiness to play)
• After the ball was over
• As bright as a new pin
• As neat as a new pin
• Ball achingly good
• Ball and chain
• Ball of fire
• Behind the eight ball
• Bowling along
• Can of corn (A baseball expression meaning a ball which is easy to catch)
• Carry the ball
• Chip and pin
• Count to ten
• Curve ball (a difficult proposition - deriving from baseball terminology)
• Different ball game
• Drop the ball
• Eight out of ten cats prefer it (Whiskas Cat Food advertising slogan)
• End of the ball game
• First strike
• Get the ball rolling
• Go out on strike (Withdraw one's labour and leave one's place of work)
• Ground ball (A baseball expression meaning a prosaic or ordinary accomplishment)
• Handbags at ten paces
• Hang ten
• Hard to pin down
• Have a ball
• Have the ball at your feet
• High ball
• Keep the ball rolling
• Keep your eye on the ball
• King pin
• Knock the cover off the ball (A baseball expression meaning succeed beyond expectation)
• Lucky Strike means finer tobacco (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• No throat irritation - no cough (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• On the ball
• One volunteer is worth ten pressed men
• Perfect ten
• Pin money
• Pin the tail on the donkey
• Pin your ears back
• Pin your hopes on
• Play ball
• Pre-emptive strike
• Pull the pin
• Reach for a Lucky instead of a Sweet (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)

• Run with the ball
• See a pin and pick it up
• 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
• Seriously ten (Network Ten Australia advertising slogan)
• So round, so firm, so fully packed (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Spot the ball
• Start the ball rolling
• Strike Up The Band (George Gershwin composition)
• Strike a balance
• Strike a chord with
• Strike a deal (or bargain)
• Strike a light
• Strike a pose
• Strike beard
• Strike it rich
• Strike lucky
• Strike me pink
• Strike out swinging (A baseball expression meaning to fail while giving it your best effort)
• Strike up the band
• Strike while the iron is hot
• Take me out to the ball game
• Ten a penny
• Ten green bottles sitting on the wall
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Ten one hundred
• Ten summersets he'll undertake on solid ground (Beatles song lyric)
• That's the way the ball bounces
• The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Head Ball Coach (Nickname of Steve Spurrier)
• The Ol' Ball Coach (Nickname of Steve Spurrier)
• The Queen of TV Comedy (Nickname of comedienne Lucille Ball)
• The Ten Commandments (Charlton Heston movie)
• The Top Ten
• The ball is in your court
• The belle of the ball
• The old ball and chain
• The sound of leather on willow (sound of the ball on the bat in cricket)
• The way the ball bounces
• There's never a rough puff in a lucky (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• They're toasted (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Three score and ten
• Tonight's top ten list (A catchphrase from David Letterman In The Late Show)
• Trap and ball (children's ball game)
• Whole ball of wax
• Whole new ball game
• You could have heard a pin drop
• Your starter for ten (A catchphrase from University Challenge)