Unkind Phrases

Phrases

• Big Nasty (Nickname of basketball player Corliss Williamson)
• Cheap and nasty
• Cost cutting
• Cruel and unusual punishment
• Cruel to be kind
• Cutting remark
• Don't Be Cruel (Elvis Presley song)
• Grim death
• Hang on like grim death
• I don't mean maybe
• It don't mean a thing if it ain't got swing
• It's grim up north
• Just because you are paranoid it doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you
• Lean and mean
• Lean mean fighting machine
• Lean, mean and hungry
• Mean Joe (Nickname of Joe Greene)
• Mean Mr. Mustard (Beatles song)
• Mean Streets (Robert De Niro movie)
• Mean and selfish
• Mean business
• Mean spirited
• Nasty piece of work
• Nasty taste in the mouth
• Nasty, brutish and short
• No mean feat
• On the cutting edge
• Points mean prizes
• Say what you mean and mean what you say
• See what we mean (Canon advertising slogan)
• Something nasty in the woodshed
• The Golden Mean
• The Grim Reaper
• The Queen Of Mean (Nickname of Anne Robinson)
• The unkindest cut of all
• Video nasty (a violent or horrific video)
• We mean business
• Well, she was just seventeen you know what I mean (The Beatles song lyric)
• What do points mean? Points mean prizes (A catchphrase from Price Is Right)
• What you mean we, white man?