Violent Phrases

Phrases

• Adult entertainment (euphemism for sexual or violent entertainment)
• Air rage
• As mad as a bear with a sore head
• As mad as a hatter
• As mad as a march hare
• As mad as a wet hen
• As tough as old boots
• As tough as they come
• As tough as tough
• Barking mad
• Boiling mad
• Built Ford tough (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Butt-head (Nickname of Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage))
• Don't get mad get even
• Fighting mad
• Hang tough
• Hopping mad
• I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! (line from the movie Network)
• It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken (Perdue Farms advertising slogan)
• It was a dark and stormy night
• It's tough at the top
• Mad Dog (Nickname of Gene Hatcher)
• Mad Dog (Nickname of Greg Maddux)
• Mad Dog (Nickname of Mark Madsen)
• Mad Max (Nickname of Jason Maxiell)
• Mad Max (Nickname of Vernon Maxwell)
• Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun
• Mad for it
• Mad house
• Mad money
• Mad, bad and dangerous to know
• Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
• Noble savage

• One Tough (Nickname of Joaquin Andejar)
• Passive aggressive
• Play hardball (A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive)
• Political correctness gone mad
• Power mad
• Spit blood
• Stark raving mad
• Stark staring mad
• Stormy weather
• Straw Dogs (Dustin Hoffman / Sam Peckinpah movie)
• The Mad Bomber (Nickname of Daryle Lamonica)
• The Mad Hungarian (Nickname of Al Hrabosky)
• The Mad March Hare
• The Mad Monk (Nickname of Rasputin)
• The Mad Scientist (Nickname of Mike Leach)
• The Mad Stork (Nickname of Ted Hendricks)
• To make that tough job easier - you deserve M&M candy (M&Ms advertising slogan)
• Tough Juice (Nickname of Caron Butler)
• Tough customer
• Tough love
• Tough luck
• Tough nut to crack
• Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime (Tony Blair political slogan)
• Tough pill to swallow
• Tough row to hoe
• Tough shit
• Tough titty
• Vicious circle
• Vicious spiral
• Video nasty (a violent or horrific video)
• When the going gets tough, the tough get going (A catchphrase from Joseph Kennedy)
• When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping
• You don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps