Wrong Phrases

Phrases

• A head for business and a body for sin
• Add insult to injury
• As miserable as sin
• As ugly as sin
• Back the wrong horse
• Bang out of order
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Bear false witness
• Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey (Keanu Reeves movie)
• Blood injury
• Born on the wrong side of the blanket
• Born on the wrong side of the tracks
• By no stretch of the imagination
• Captain Underpants And The Wrath Of The Wicked Wedgie Woman (Dav Pilkey book)
• Cardinal sin
• Costa Del Crime
• Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky book)
• Crime Dog (Nickname of baseball player Fred McGriff)
• Crime against nature
• Crime doesn't pay
• Crime of passion
• Criminal stupidity
• Do yourself an injury
• Does the trick
• Don't mention the war (A catchphrase from Faulty Towers)
• Every trick in the book
• Evil Under The Sun (Agatha Christie book)
• Evil genius
• Evil intent
• Evil twin
• Fake it till you make it
• Fake the funk
• False alarm
• False dawn
• False friends
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• False memory syndrome
• False modesty
• False pretences
• False prophet
• Faulty Towers (BBC comedy television series)
• Flub the dub
• From the sublime to the ridiculous
• From the wrong side of the tracks
• Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
• Get off on the wrong foot
• Get out of the wrong side of the bed
• Go down the wrong way
• Go wrong
• He's from Barcelona (A catchphrase from Faulty Towers)
• Heap abuse on
• Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil
• How wrong can you be?
• If anything can go wrong, it will
• If this is wrong I don't want to be right
• If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
• Illegal alien
• In the wrong
• Infamy Infamy! They've all got it in for me! (Kenneth Williams line in Carry On Cleo)
• It went down the wrong way
• It's all gone Pete Tong (Cockney rhyming slang for gone wrong)
• Jump to the wrong conclusion
• Labour under a misapprehension
• Laugh on the wrong side of your face
• Let the punishment fit the crime

• Living in sin
• Lulled into a false sense of security
• Lynn Lynn City Of Sin (Nickname of Lynn Massachusetts)
• Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
• Money is the root of all evil
• My country right or wrong
• Never misses a trick
• No peace for the wicked
• No rest for the wicked
• Nose for crime
• Not so
• Not that there's anything wrong with that (A catchphrase from Seinfeld)
• Of unsound mind
• Off base
• Off the rails
• On the wrong foot
• On the wrong side of the tracks
• One trick pony
• Original sin
• Out of order
• Partners in crime
• Penny wise, pound foolish
• Put a foot wrong
• Ring false
• Rub up the wrong way
• Sailing under false colours
• See no evil, hear no evil speak no evil
• Sexton Blake (Cockney rhyming slang for fake)
• Sin City (Nickname of Las Vegas Nevada)
• So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (3dfx advertising slogan)
• Something wicked this way comes
• Son of a whore (a bastard, or a general term of abuse)
• Take a bite out of crime
• Take a bite out of crime! (National Crime Prevention Council advertising slogan)
• The Evil Empire
• The Fake Sheikh (Nickname of journalist Mazher Mahmood)
• The Flying Squad (Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard)
• The Indian rope trick
• The Napoleon of Crime (Nickname of Professor Moriarty)
• The Real Slim Shady
• The Shadow knows (A catchphrase from the crime fighting vigilante)
• The Whore of Babylon (a Christian figure of evil and corruption)
• The axis of evil
• The love of money is the root of all evil
• The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still (The Beatles song lyric)
• The perfect crime
• The right place at the wrong time
• The wages of sin is death
• There's something amiss
• Touch Of Evil (Charlton Heston / Orson Welles movie)
• Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime (Tony Blair political slogan)
• Trick of the light
• Trick or treat
• Turn a trick
• Two and two make five
• Two wrongs don't make a right
• War criminal (someone who has flouted the Geneva Convention)
• What's wrong with this picture?
• Why don't you come up sometime and see me? (She Done Him Wrong)
• Wicked stepmother
• Without a leg to stand on
• Wouldn't go amiss
• Wrong Way Corrigan (Nickname of Douglas Corrigan)
• Wrong side of the blanket
• Wrong side of the tracks
• Wrong, with a capital R

Related

• Back the wrong horse
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Born on the wrong side of the blanket
• Born on the wrong side of the tracks
• From the wrong side of the tracks
• Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
• Get off on the wrong foot
• Get out of the wrong side of the bed
• Go down the wrong way
• Go wrong
• How wrong can you be?
• If anything can go wrong, it will
• If this is wrong I don't want to be right
• In the wrong
• It went down the wrong way
• It's all gone Pete Tong (Cockney rhyming slang for gone wrong)
• Jump to the wrong conclusion
• Laugh on the wrong side of your face
• My country right or wrong
• Not that there's anything wrong with that (A catchphrase from Seinfeld)
• On the wrong foot
• On the wrong side of the tracks
• Put a foot wrong
• Rub up the wrong way
• The right place at the wrong time
• What's wrong with this picture?
• Why don't you come up sometime and see me? (She Done Him Wrong)
• Wrong Way Corrigan (Nickname of Douglas Corrigan)
• Wrong side of the blanket
• Wrong side of the tracks
• Wrong, with a capital R