Warning Phrases

Phrases

• Abandon hope all ye who enter here (warning from Dante's Divine Comedy)
• Action stations
• Advance guard
• Advance warning
• Advanced notice
• Alarm bells began to ring
• All clear
• Amber nectar
• At a moment's notice
• Be afraid, be very afraid
• Bell the cat
• Buckle your seat belts it's going to be a bumpy ride
• Caveat emptor
• Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
• Don't bet on it
• Don't mess with Texas
• Drinking in the last chance saloon
• Drop a hint
• False alarm
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• Green Scare
• Hand in your notice
• Heads up
• Here comes trouble
• I look at the world and I notice it's turning (The Beatles song lyric)
• Intruder alert
• It's later then you think
• Know too much
• Mayday mayday
• Not so as you'd notice
• On red alert
• On the alert
• Radio alarm
• Read the riot act
• Ready and waiting (alert and prepared for action)
• Red alert
• Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning
• Rivers of blood
• Shot across the bows
• Sit up and take notice
• Sound the alarm
• Speed kills
• The Russians are coming
• Wake-up call
• Warning bell
• Warning signal
• Watch out
• Word to the wise
• You'll never take me alive copper