Wound Phrases

Phrases

• Add insult to injury
• After all, tomorrow is another day (Gone With the Wind)
• Any way the wind blows
• Bleed someone dry
• Bleed someone white
• Blood injury
• Blow with the wind
• Blowin' In The Wind (Bob Dylan song)
• Body blow
• Break wind
• Breath of wind
• Candle In The Wind (Elton John song)
• Clean cut boy
• Come wind come weather
• Cut a cheque
• Cut a dash
• Cut a deal
• Cut a hog
• Cut a long story short
• Cut a rug
• Cut a wide swathe (make a pompous display)
• Cut above the rest
• Cut and dried
• Cut and paste
• Cut and run
• Cut and shut
• Cut and thrust
• Cut bait
• Cut corners
• Cut costs
• Cut from the same cloth
• Cut it fine
• Cut it out
• Cut loose
• Cut no ice
• Cut off at the knees
• Cut off without a penny
• Cut out for
• Cut out the dead wood
• Cut prices to the bone
• Cut some slack
• Cut someone dead
• Cut someone down in their prime
• Cut someone down to size
• Cut the Gordian knot
• Cut the cackle
• Cut the cheese
• Cut the cord
• Cut the crap
• Cut the ground from under your feet
• Cut the mustard
• Cut the umbilical cord
• Cut throat competition
• Cut through the red tape
• Cut to the chase
• Cut to the quick
• Cut up about
• Cut up rough
• Cut your coat to suit your cloth
• Cut your losses
• Cut your own throat
• Cut your teeth
• Director's cut
• Do yourself an injury
• Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
• Final cut
• First cut

• Fish or cut bait
• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn (Gone With the Wind)
• Get wind of
• Go like the wind
• Gone With The Wind (Clark Gable / Vivien Leigh movie)
• Got the wind up
• Half cut
• Have a stab at
• Have your work cut out for you
• Head wind
• Idiot Wind (Bob Dylan song)
• Invalided out
• It's an ill wind that blows no one any good
• Knock the wind out of
• Let It Bleed (Rolling Stones song)
• Lick your wounds
• Like a candle in the wind
• Like a chicken with its head cut off
• Like the wind
• Make the cut
• Measure twice, cut once
• Miss the cut
• My stomach thinks my throat's been cut
• Not cut out for it
• Not the ill wind which blows no man to good
• Pissing in the wind
• Prime cut
• Put the wind up
• Raise the wind
• Ride like the wind
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rub salt in the wound
• Run like the wind
• Sail close to the wind
• Second wind
• Stab in the back
• Stab in the dark
• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (from a poem by Auden)
• Summer Wind (Frank Sinatra song)
• Swing in the wind
• Take a stab at
• Take the wind out of my sails
• The Final Cut (Pink Floyd song)
• The First Cut Is The Deepest (Rod Stewart song)
• The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Wind in the Willows (children's book by Kenneth Grahame)
• The answer my friend is blowing in the wind (Bob Dylan song lyric)
• The cut of your jib
• The unkindest cut of all
• The wind of change is blowing through this continent
• They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind
• Three sheets to the wind
• Throw caution to the wind
• To cut a long story short
• Twist in the wind
• Walking wounded
• When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
• Wind at your back
• Wind dummy
• Wind farm
• Wind of Change (Scorpions song)
• Wind someone up (deliberately draw attention to something that will create agitation)
• Wind up
• Wind up in
• Wind your neck in
• You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife
• You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows