Angle Phrases

Phrases

• A Fish Called Wanda (John Cleese movie)
• A house divided against itself cannot stand
• A tight corner
• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
• All is fish that comes to the net
• Angle for
• At full tilt
• Bend over backwards to help
• Bend the rules
• Bend to my will
• Bend your ear
• Bend your elbow
• Big fish eat little fish
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Bigger fish to fry
• Blind corner
• Cleans round the bend (Harpic Lavatory Cleaner advertising slogan)
• Coffin corner
• Cold fish
• Corner the market
• Cry stinking fish
• Dark Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• Deep Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• Different kettle of fish
• Don't Stand So Close To Me (Police song)
• Don't just stand there, do something (A catchphrase from Wacky Races)
• Drink like a fish
• Drive someone into a corner
• Fish always rot from the head downwards
• Fish and finger pie (Beatles song lyric)
• Fish and guests smell after three days
• Fish it out
• Fish or cut bait
• Fish out
• Fish out of water
• Fork out
• Fork the tree
• Full tilt
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
• Global search
• Go off at a tangent
• Go to a neutral corner
• Got bigger fish to fry
• Have your hair stand on end
• Hidden Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• Hide and seek
• I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips
• If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen (A catchphrase from Harry S Truman)
• If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything (Malcolm X quotation)
• In your corner
• Invisible Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• Jimmy Horner (Cockney rhyming slang for corner)
• Just around the corner
• Kitty corner
• Knife and fork it
• Know where we stand
• Like a fish out of water
• Like shooting fish in a barrel
• Little Jack Horner sat in a corner (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little fish in a big pond (someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers)

• More than flesh and blood can stand
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Odd fish
• One night stand
• One night stand investment
• Paint yourself into a corner
• Painted into a corner
• Pretty kettle of fish
• Pull your weight
• Punching above his weight
• Queer fish
• Revenge mission (an attempt to seek active retribution)
• Round the bend
• School of fish
• Search and rescue
• Search engine
• Search high and low
• Search marketing
• Search me
• Seek and ye shall find
• So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
• Stand By Your Man (Tammy Wynette song)
• Stand and deliver
• Stand before your maker
• Stand by
• Stand down
• Stand in good stead
• Stand it on its head
• Stand like a Stoughton bottle
• Stand off
• Stand on ceremony
• Stand on one's dignity
• Stand on your own two feet
• Stand out
• Stand out from the crowd
• Stand up and be counted
• Stand up fight
• Stand up for yourself
• Stand up guy
• Strip search
• Take a stand
• Take the weight off your feet
• Taste, not waist (Weight Watchers Frozen Meals advertising slogan)
• The Big Bend State (Nickname of the US state of Tennessee)
• The Naughty Corner
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• They also serve who only stand and wait (from a poem by Milton)
• Throw your weight about
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield (from a poem by Tennyson)
• Turn the corner
• United we stand divided we fall
• Watching your weight
• Weight off my mind
• Wet fish
• What does that have to do with the price of fish?
• What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare (from a poem by Davies)
• Will the real ... stand up? (A catchphrase from To Tell The Truth)
• Without a leg to stand on
• Worth one's weight in gold