Artful Phrases

Phrases

• All there (clever or quick-witted)
• Ankle deep
• As cunning as a fox
• As cute as a bug's ear
• As cute as a button
• As sharp as a tack
• As sly as a fox
• Beauty is only skin deep
• Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
• Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
• Box clever
• Card sharp
• City Linking, smart thinking (City Link advertising slogan)
• City bike (a bicycle designing especially for urban riding)
• Clever clogs
• Clever dick
• Deep Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Throat (Nickname of Mark Felt)
• Deep Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• Deep dark secret
• Deep in thought
• Deep linking
• Deep pockets
• Deep sea data diving
• Deep six
• Deep space
• Deep throat
• Deep web (The part of the WWW not visible via standard search engines)
• Deeper Than The Deep Blue Sea (Frank Sinatra song)
• Dig deep
• Foxy Lady (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Get into deep water
• Go off the deep end
• He Hate Me (Nickname of American football player Rod Smart)
• How Deep Is Your Love? (Bee Gees song)
• I have a cunning plan (A catchphrase from Blackadder)
• I'm a little bit wooooor, a little bit waaaaaaaaaayy, I'm a geezer! (A catchphrase from Chris The Crafty Cockney In The Fast Show)
• I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me! (A catchphrase from Stuart Smiley In Saturday Night Live)
• In deep
• In deep doo-doo
• In deep shit

• In deep water
• In sharp focus
• It's Smart to be Square (British Satellite Broadcasting advertising slogan)
• It's not big and it's not clever
• Knee deep in
• Look sharp
• Look sharp, feel sharp (Gillette advertising slogan)
• Missed it by that much! (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• My precious (The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers)
• Oh, Max! (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• On the sly
• One smart cookie
• Precious little
• Quick smart
• Razor sharp
• River Deep Mountain High (Ike and Tina Turner song)
• Roll deep
• Rolling in the Deep (Adele song)
• Sharp as a tack
• Sharp eyed
• Sharp shooter
• Sharp tongue
• Short sharp shock
• Skin deep
• Slick Willy (Nickname of Bill Clinton)
• Sly dog
• Smart Alec
• Smart arse
• Smart dust
• Smart money
• Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
• Sorry about that, Chief. (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• Still waters run deep
• Street smart
• Take a few deep breaths
• That's the second biggest ... I've ever seen! (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• The Artful Dodger (Nickname of Jack Dawkins)
• The deep blue sea
• The deep end
• This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
• Thrown in at the deep end
• Too clever by half
• Tricky Dicky (Nickname of Richard Nixon)
• Twas the night before Christmas - the children were dreaming of a Ford in their future - smart, swanky and gleaming (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Would you believe ... (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• Your fragrance Your rules (Hugo Boss Deep Red advertising slogan)