Weak Phrases

Phrases

• A week is a long time in politics
• As weak as gnat's piss
• Below par
• Bet on a lame rooster
• Combat fatigue
• Compassion fatigue
• Cream puff
• Damn with faint praise
• Damned with faint praise
• Eight Days A Week (Beatles song)
• Faint at heart
• Faint heart never won fair lady
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• Go weak at the knees
• House built on sand
• I was a seven stone weakling (Charles Atlas advertising slogan)
• It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken (Perdue Farms advertising slogan)
• Knock into the middle of next week
• Lame brain
• Lame duck
• Limp wristed
• Little fish in a big pond (someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers)
• Love Me Tender (Elvis Presley song)
• Mental fatigue
• Metal fatigue
• Penny wise, pound foolish
• Small beer
• Tender Is The Night (F Scott Fitzgerald novel)
• Tender loving care
• Tender mercies
• That Friday feeling (anticipation of the weekend after a hard working week)
• The Tender Trap (Frank Sinatra movie)
• The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still (The Beatles song lyric)
• The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
• Week in, week out
• Wet fish
• Wishy washy
• Yorkshire born in Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head