Thorn Phrases

Phrases

• 1001 Cleans a Big, Big Carpet for Less than Half a Crown (1001 advertising slogan)
• Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall (Spike Milligan book)
• All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (Spike Jones song)
• All men are cremated equal (Spike Milligan line)
• As straight as an arrow
• At knife point
• At this point in time
• Beside the point
• Bow and arrow squad
• Broken Arrow (James Stewart movie)
• Cactus juice
• Captain Crunch (Nickname of basketball player Jalen Rose)
• Charlie Hustle (Nickname of baseball player Pete Rose)
• Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard (Spike Milligan line)
• Click here for Royal Crown Cola (Royal Crown Cola advertising slogan)
• Contraceptives should be used on all conceivable occasions (Spike Milligan line)
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Crown Jewels
• Crown privilege
• Deep Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Drive your point home
• Every rose has its thorn
• Feel 95 point great (Capital FM advertising slogan)
• Flash point
• Get a gold star (earn a merit point for doing well)
• Get straight to the point
• Get the point
• I Never Promised You A Rose Garden (Lynn Anderson song)
• I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (Spike Jones song)
• I told you I was ill (Spike Milligan line inscribed on his gravestone)
• In point of fact
• Jack fell down and broke his crown (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jewel in the crown
• Jumping off point
• Looking at the world through rose coloured glasses
• Moot point
• My friend, Joe Holmes, is now a horse (Arrow Shirts advertising slogan)
• Not to put too fine a point on it

• Point Break (Keanu Reeves movie)
• Point Percy at the porcelain
• Point blank range
• Point duty
• Point of sale
• Point of view
• Point out
• Point the finger
• Point to point
• Press your point home
• Rose by any other name would smell as sweet
• Rose is a rose is a rose
• Rose tinted glasses
• Rose tinted spectacles
• Secondhand rose
• Silly Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Single point of contact
• Sticking point
• Stretch a point
• Talking point
• The Name Of The Rose (Umberto Eco book)
• The Purple Rose Of Cairo (Woody Allen movie)
• The Thomas Crown Affair (Steve McQueen movie)
• The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCollough book)
• The Tyler Rose (Nickname of Earl Campbell)
• The case in point
• The first network for men (Spike TV advertising slogan)
• The plumage of the rose
• The point of contact (Sprint advertising slogan)
• The point of no return
• There's a lot of it about (A catchphrase from Spike Milligan)
• Thorn in my side
• Thorn in the flesh
• Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
• Tipping point
• Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
• What's the point?
• Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni movie)