Alert Phrases

Phrases

• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
• A little learning is a dangerous thing (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• A sure sign
• Abandon hope all ye who enter here (warning from Dante's Divine Comedy)
• Address the ball (golfing term denoting readiness to play)
• Advance warning
• Alarm bells began to ring
• All fired up and ready to go
• All there (clever or quick-witted)
• Amped up (excited and ready for action)
• Are you ready for some football?
• Armed and dangerous
• As quick as a flash
• As sharp as a tack
• At your wits' end
• Bar fly
• Battle of wits
• Battle ready
• Be prepared
• Because you were born to fly (TAM Brazilian Airlines advertising slogan)
• Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
• Born Under A Bad Sign (Cream song)
• Born ready
• Born under a bad sign
• Cable ready
• Card sharp
• Central heating for kids (Ready Brek porridge advertising slogan)
• City Linking, smart thinking (City Link advertising slogan)
• Clear and present danger
• Collect your wits
• Combat ready
• Come Fly With Me (Frank Sinatra song)
• Cut to the quick
• Danger, Will Robinson (A catchphrase from The Robot In Lost In Space)
• Dangerous Liaisons (Glenn Close movie)
• Don't close your eyes for a minute
• Double quick
• Down to the pub for a quick one
• Earth to mom
• Err on the side of caution
• Evening person
• Eyes in the back of your head
• False alarm
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• Fly Me To The Moon (Frank Sinatra song)
• Fly a kite
• Fly by night
• Fly by the seat of your pants
• Fly by wire
• Fly drive
• Fly in the face of the evidence
• Fly in the ointment
• Fly now. Shovel later (Eastern Airlines advertising slogan)
• Fly off the handle
• Fly off the shelves
• Fly on the wall
• Fly the American way (American Airlines advertising slogan)
• Fly the coop
• Fly the flag (British Airways advertising slogan)
• Fly the friendly skies (United Airlines advertising slogan)
• Fly the nest
• Get Rich quick (Kenco Really Rich Coffee advertising slogan)
• Get ready to rumble (prepare to fight or do battle)
• Get rich quick
• Get your retaliation in first
• Give me a sign
• Go fly a kite
• Good and ready
• Half awake
• Have your wits about you
• He Hate Me (Nickname of American football player Rod Smart)
• Heads up
• Here's one I prepared earlier (A catchphrase from Blue Peter)
• I'm Margie. Fly me (National Airlines advertising slogan)
• I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me! (A catchphrase from Stuart Smiley In Saturday Night Live)
• If God had meant us to fly he would have given us wings
• If man were meant to fly, God would have lowered the fares (American Coach Lines advertising slogan)
• In quick succession
• In sharp focus
• Intruder alert
• It's Smart to be Square (British Satellite Broadcasting advertising slogan)
• It's time to fly (United Airlines advertising slogan)
• Jack be nimble Jack be quick (line from nursery rhyme)
• Keep a weather eye open
• Keep your eye on the ball
• Keep your eyes on the prize
• Keep your eyes peeled
• Keep your finger on the pulse
• Keep your wits about you
• Kiss me quick
• Let fly
• Like a blue arsed fly
• Live by your wits
• Look lively
• Look sharp
• Look sharp, feel sharp (Gillette advertising slogan)
• Mad, bad and dangerous to know
• Make ready
• Make the feathers fly
• Mayday mayday
• Missed it by that much! (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• Mongoose Quick Rick (Nickname of Ricky Davis)
• Morning person

• Never misses a trick
• Nick the Quick (Nickname of Nick Van Exel)
• Oh, Max! (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• On dangerous ground
• On red alert
• On the alert
• On the ball
• On the case
• On the fly
• On your toes
• One jump ahead of
• One smart cookie
• Open your eyes
• Our entire economy is in danger
• Out of danger
• Oven ready
• Pigs might fly
• Pit your wits against
• Primed and ready to go
• Quick and dirty
• Quick buck
• Quick change artist
• Quick off the mark
• Quick on the draw
• Quick one
• Quick smart
• Quick study
• Quick witted
• Quick, Henry, the FLIT! (Flit insecticide advertising slogan)
• Radio alarm
• Razor sharp
• Ready Teddy (Little Richard song)
• Ready and waiting (alert and prepared for action)
• Ready for the off
• Ready set go
• Ready steady go
• Ready to roll
• Ready when you are (Delta Airlines advertising slogan)
• Ready willing and able
• Ready, aye, ready (Camp Coffee advertising slogan)
• Ready, get set, go
• Red alert
• Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning
• Rough and ready
• Scared out of your wits
• Sharp as a tack
• Sharp eyed
• Sharp shooter
• Sharp tongue
• Short sharp shock
• Shovel ready (a building project in which all the preliminaries have been arranged)
• Sign of the times
• Sign off
• Sign on
• Sign on the dotted line
• Sign out
• Sign the pledge
• Sign up
• Signal to noise ratio
• Singapore Girl, you're a great way to fly (Singapore Airlines advertising slogan)
• Siren voices
• Sleep with one eye open
• Sleepless In Seattle (Tom Hanks movie)
• Slow slow quick quick slow
• Smart Alec
• Smart arse
• Smart dust
• Smart money
• Sorry about that, Chief. (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• Sound the alarm
• Spanish Fly
• Spring into action
• Stay ahead of the curve
• Step up to the mark (mark yourself ready to take responsibility)
• Straighten up and fly right
• Stranger danger
• Street smart
• Switched on
• Tell tale sign
• That's the second biggest ... I've ever seen! (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• The Esso sign means happy motoring (Esso advertising slogan)
• The Sign of the Four (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The fur began to fly
• The only way to fly (Western Airlines advertising slogan)
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
• Think fast
• Think on your feet
• Throw caution to the wind
• Tip someone off
• Tip someone the wink
• Twas the night before Christmas - the children were dreaming of a Ford in their future - smart, swanky and gleaming (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Waiter, there's a fly in my soup
• War footing (preparedness to fight a military campaign)
• War game (a simulation of war intended as preparation)
• Warn off
• Warning bell
• Warning signal
• Watch the sparks fly
• We love to fly and it shows (Delta AirLines advertising slogan)
• Work hard. Fly right (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• Would you believe ... (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• You and I were meant to fly (Air Canada advertising slogan)
• You'll love the way we fly (Delta Airlines advertising slogan)