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Trap Phrases

86 phrases and expressions related to "trap".

Phrases

  • A tight corner
  • Alligator bait (a reference to the alleged practice of using black babies to lure alligators into traps)
  • Any time, anywhere, acid indigestion can catch you out (Alka Selzer advertising slogan)
  • Bait and switch
  • Blind corner
  • Booby trap
  • Can of corn (A baseball expression meaning a ball which is easy to catch)
  • Catch 22 (Joseph Heller book)
  • Catch a case
  • Catch a cold
  • Catch a falling star
  • Catch a wave
  • Catch as catch can
  • Catch fire
  • Catch hell
  • Catch of the day
  • Catch on
  • Catch our smile (PSA advertising slogan)
  • Catch some rays
  • Catch some zzzs
  • Catch that Pepsi spirit. Drink it in, drink it in, drink it in (Pepsi advertising slogan)
  • Catch you later
  • Catch your breath
  • Catch your death of cold
  • Catch your eye
  • Click bait (an eye ctaching word or image on a website)
  • Coffin corner
  • Corner the market
  • Cut bait
  • Death trap
  • Does the trick
  • Don't fence me in
  • Drive someone into a corner
  • Every trick in the book
  • First catch your hare
  • Fish or cut bait
  • Fox trap
  • Go to a neutral corner
  • Honey trap
  • If the sky falls we shall catch larks
  • In your corner
  • It takes a thief to catch a thief
  • Jail bait
  • Jimmy Horner (Cockney rhyming slang for corner)
  • Just around the corner
  • Keep your trap shut
  • Kitty corner
  • Little Jack Horner sat in a corner (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Never misses a trick
  • One trick pony
  • Paint yourself into a corner
  • Painted into a corner
  • Play catch up
  • Poacher turned gamekeeper
  • Pony and trap (Cockney rhyming slang for crap)
  • Prize catch
  • Rise to the bait
  • Set a thief to catch a thief
  • Shut your trap
  • Sprat to catch a mackerel
  • Take the bait
  • The Indian rope trick
  • The Naughty Corner
  • The Parent Trap (Hayley Mills movie)
  • The Tender Trap (Frank Sinatra movie)
  • Tourist trap
  • Trap and ball (children's ball game)
  • Trick of the light
  • Trick or treat
  • Turn a trick
  • Turn the corner
  • What's the catch?
  • Where's the catch?
  • You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
  • You couldn't catch a monkey with a shotgun and a sack

Related

  • Booby trap
  • Death trap
  • Fox trap
  • Honey trap
  • Keep your trap shut
  • Pony and trap (Cockney rhyming slang for crap)
  • Shut your trap
  • The Parent Trap (Hayley Mills movie)
  • The Tender Trap (Frank Sinatra movie)
  • Tourist trap
  • Trap and ball (children's ball game)