Abruptly Phrases

Phrases

• A Short History Of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson book)
• A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian (Marina Lewycka book)
• A few bricks short of a full load
• A few cards short of a full deck
• All of a sudden
• Art is long and life is short
• As dead as a dodo
• As dead as a doornail
• As dead as mutton
• As thick as two short planks
• At the dead of night
• Back from the dead
• Better dead than red
• Better off dead
• Brain dead
• Bring out your dead
• Bring up short
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• Caught by the short and curlies
• Caught short
• Chivalry is not dead
• Come up short
• Cut a long story short
• Cut out the dead wood
• Cut someone dead
• Day late and a dollar short
• Dead Man Walking (Helen Prejean book)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)
• Dead Ringer For Love (Meatloaf song)
• Dead air
• Dead and buried
• Dead and gone
• Dead cat bounce
• Dead cinch
• Dead duck
• Dead easy
• Dead end
• Dead from the neck up
• Dead giveaway
• Dead heads
• Dead heat
• Dead in the water
• Dead issue
• Dead letter
• Dead loss
• Dead man walking
• Dead meat
• Dead men tell no tales
• Dead men's shoes
• Dead of night
• Dead of winter
• Dead on arrival
• Dead on time
• Dead presidents
• Dead reckoning
• Dead ringer
• Dead to rights
• Dead to the world
• Dead white European male (derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation)
• Dead white male
• Dead wood
• Dick and Jane is dead (Encyclopaedia Britannica advertising slogan)
• Domestos kills all known germs - Dead! (Domestos Bleach advertising slogan)
• Down among the dead men
• Drop dead
• Drop dead gorgeous
• Drop dead list
• Drop down dead

• Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
• Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
• Flogging a dead horse
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Given up for dead
• God is dead (philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche)
• Good and dead
• Hang by the neck until dead
• He's dead Jim (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
• I wouldn't be caught dead
• In short order
• In short supply
• In the short run
• Kicking dead whales down the beach
• Kill stone dead
• Kills bugs dead (Raid advertising slogan)
• Knock 'em dead
• Left for dead
• Let the dead bury the dead
• Life's too short
• Like being savaged by a dead sheep
• Loud enough to waken the dead
• Make short work of
• More dead than alive
• Nasty, brutish and short
• Never speak ill of the dead
• Numbered with the dead
• One brick short of a load
• Over my dead body
• Play dead
• Pull someone up short
• Raise the dead
• Roll over and play dead
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play by Tom Stoppard)
• Shit (or short) end of the stick
• Short Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short and curlies
• Short and sweet
• Short arms, long pockets
• Short but sweet
• Short change
• Short end of the stick
• Short fuse
• Short list
• Short sharp shock
• Short shrift
• Short sighted
• Short stuff
• Sold short
• Suddenly Last Summer (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Take a long walk off a short pier
• Take a long walk off a short plank
• The Day of the Dead (Horror movie)
• The King is dead, long live the King
• The long and short of it
• The only good Indian is a dead Indian
• The short end of the stick
• To cut a long story short
• To make a long story short
• Two bricks short of a load
• Two sandwiches short of a picnic
• Wanted, dead or alive
• When a man you've never met before suddenly gives you flowers (Impulse deodorant advertising slogan)
• Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
• You're a long time dead