Thread Phrases

Phrases

• A String Of Pearls (Glenn Miller tune)
• After all, tomorrow is another day (Gone With the Wind)
• Any way the wind blows
• Bless his/her cotton socks
• Blow with the wind
• Blowin' In The Wind (Bob Dylan song)
• Break wind
• Breath of wind
• Candle In The Wind (Elton John song)
• Captain Underpants And The Perilous Plot Of Professor Poopypants (Dav Pilkey book)
• Come wind come weather
• Cut the cord
• Cut the umbilical cord
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• Fibre art (Artwork consisting of natural or synthetic fibres)
• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn (Gone With the Wind)
• Genius bonus (a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed people)
• Get wind of
• Go like the wind
• Gone With The Wind (Clark Gable / Vivien Leigh movie)
• Got the wind up
• Got the world on a string
• Gunpowder treason and plot (line from nursery rhyme)
• Hanging by a thread
• Have a second string to your bow have
• Head wind
• How long is a piece of string?
• Idiot Wind (Bob Dylan song)
• In high cotton
• It's an ill wind that blows no one any good
• Knock the wind out of
• Like a candle in the wind
• Like a puppet on a string
• Like the wind
• Lose the plot
• Lose the thread
• Lost the plot
• Moral fibre
• More than one string to your bow

• Not the ill wind which blows no man to good
• Paternal bonus (a joke or theme added to a childrens programme aimed at adults)
• Pissing in the wind
• Put the wind up
• Raise the wind
• Ride like the wind
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Run like the wind
• Sail close to the wind
• Second wind
• Silver threads amongst the gold (blonde hair that is turning grey)
• String along
• String someone along
• Suicide is painless (title of the theme song to MASH tv series and film)
• Summer Wind (Frank Sinatra song)
• Swing in the wind
• Take the wind out of my sails
• The Cotton State (Nickname of the US state of Alabama)
• The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Wind in the Willows (children's book by Kenneth Grahame)
• The answer my friend is blowing in the wind (Bob Dylan song lyric)
• The plot thickens
• The wind of change is blowing through this continent
• They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind
• Three sheets to the wind
• Throw caution to the wind
• Twist in the wind
• Wait just a cotton picking minute
• Wind at your back
• Wind dummy
• Wind farm
• Wind of Change (Scorpions song)
• Wind someone up (deliberately draw attention to something that will create agitation)
• Wind up
• Wind up in
• Wind your neck in
• Yarn bombing (Adorning street furntiure and buildings with knitted items as a form of graffiti)
• You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows
• You're never alone with a Strand (Strand Cigarettes advertising slogan)