Anchor Phrases

Phrases

• A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
• Abandon ship
• Air support
• All at sea
• Anchor man
• Anchors aweigh
• Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
• By hook or by crook
• Can we fix it? Yes, we can! (Bob The Builder slogan)
• Captain Hook (Nickname of baseball manager George Anderson)
• Cast anchor
• Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually
• Deep sea data diving
• Deeper Than The Deep Blue Sea (Frank Sinatra song)
• Don't give up the ship (Cutty Sark Whisky advertising slogan)
• Don't spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of tar
• Drum up support
• Duncan the Wonder Horse (Nickname of TV news anchor Tom Brokaw)
• Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night (All About Eve)
• Fix your wagon
• From sea to shining sea
• Get a fix on
• Go down with the ship
• Hands across the sea
• Have a fix
• Heavenly host (The angels that support God)
• Hook line and sinker
• Hook up with
• If all the world were Jell-O, And whipped cream filled the sea, Then the only spoon from here to the moon Would have to belong to me (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• If it ain't broke don't fix it
• In a fix
• Jump ship
• Left Hook (Nickname of Jeff Lacy)
• Let off the hook

• Life support
• Like rats leaving a sinking ship
• Mother ship
• My ship has come in
• Nature, red in tooth and claw
• Off the hook
• Ring off the hook
• Run a tight ship
• Sea Bass (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
• Sea change
• Sea level
• Secure in the knowledge
• Shape up or ship out
• She sells sea shells on the sea shore
• Ship of fools
• Ship shape and Bristol fashion
• Ship to shore
• Sling your hook
• Sun, sea and sand
• Support network
• That ship has sailed
• The Backbone of England (Nickname of The Pennine Hills)
• The Backbone of North America (Nickname of The Rocky Mountains)
• The Big Ship Sails on The Ally-Ally-Oh (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Bride Of The Sea (Nickname of Venice Italy)
• The Keystone State (Nickname of the US state of Pennsylvania)
• The Old Man And The Sea (Spencer Tracy movie)
• The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat (line from nursery rhyme)
• The deep blue sea
• The fix is in
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
• Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
• Weigh anchor