Attack Phrases

Phrases

• A better bus service all round (Carousel Buses advertising slogan)
• A class act
• A good beginning makes a good ending
• A move in the right direction
• A pitched battle
• A straight fight
• Act of God
• Act out
• Act the fool
• Act the giddy goat
• Act the part
• Act up
• Act white
• Act your age
• After The Gold Rush (Neil Young song)
• After a storm comes a calm
• Alien invasion
• All out war
• All round
• All year round
• An abortive attempt
• An albatross round his neck
• An uphill battle
• Any port in a storm
• Armed struggle
• Assault with a deadly weapon
• Attack is the best form of defence
• Attack of the Clones (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• Balanced approach
• Balancing act
• Bash on
• Bash the bishop
• Battle of the sexes
• Battle of wits
• Battle ready
• Battle royal
• Battle stations
• Beat a hasty retreat
• Beat someone black and blue
• Beat the retreat
• Beat the rush
• Beat up
• Begin at the beginning
• Bish bash bosh
• Bitch slap (a full swing slap in the face intended to be humiliating)
• Black and white unite and fight (Political slogan)
• Blast from the past
• Blast off
• Blow out of the water
• Bluff charge (A movement towards by an animal towards its prey which is halted without attacking)
• Bold move
• Bring it on
• Bum's rush
• Bump start
• Bust a move (dance in a stylish way)
• Calendar year (twelve months beginning from the first of January)
• Calm before the storm
• Captain Underpants And The Invasion Of The Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space (Dav Pilkey book)
• Career limiting move
• Cast the first stone
• Catch a case
• Caught in the act
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Chip and charge
• Class act
• Clean up your act
• Cleans round the bend (Harpic Lavatory Cleaner advertising slogan)
• Clear and present danger
• Come down hard on
• Come round
• Cook up a storm
• Cop one
• Costa Del Crime
• Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
• Create a storm (Monsoon advertising slogan)
• Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky book)
• Crime Dog (Nickname of baseball player Fred McGriff)
• Crime against nature
• Crime doesn't pay
• Crime of passion
• Date rape
• Dawn raid
• Denial of service attack
• Did the earth move for you
• Do a disappearing act
• Do your worst
• Don't criticise what you don't understand
• Don't knock it until you've tried it
• Double act
• Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom
• Down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose (line from nursery rhyme)
• Drive by shooting
• Emotion charged
• Eye of the storm
• Faith will move mountains
• Fight Club (Brad Pitt movie)
• Fight For The Right To Party (Beastie Boys song)
• Fight back
• Fight back the tears
• Fight fire with fire
• Fight like a man
• Fight like cat and dog
• Fight off
• Fight or flight
• Fight shy
• Fight the good fight
• Fight the power
• Fight tooth and nail
• Fire storm
• First footing (making a round of visits at New Year)
• First strike
• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• Fresh start
• From the beginning of time
• Full blast
• Gather 'round the good stuff (Pizza Hut advertising slogan)
• Gentlemen, start your engines
• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room (Dr.Strangelove)
• Get a move on
• Get in on the act
• Get off to a bad start
• Get off to a flying start
• Get ready to rumble (prepare to fight or do battle)
• Get round the table
• Get your act together
• Get your retaliation in first
• Glasgow kiss
• Go down a storm
• Go for the jugular
• Go for the throat
• Go round in circles
• Ground zero
• Gutter snipe
• Half the battle
• Happy slapping
• Hard act to follow
• Have a blast
• Have at you
• He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day
• Head start
• Heap abuse on
• Heart attack on a plate
• Heart attack waiting to happen
• Hello, I'm Julian and this is my friend Sandy (A catchphrase from Round the Horne)
• High wire act
• Hit 'em where they live
• Hit out at
• How goes the battle?
• Human Rights Act
• I Like To Move It (Reel 2 Reel song)
• I'm Julian and this is my friend Sandy (A catchphrase from Julian And Sandy in Round The Horne)
• I'm in charge (A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth)
• If enough people would stop smoking and start drinking, we could get out of ashtrays and into vermouth (Cinzano advertising slogan)
• If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
• If your friendly neighborhood grocer doesn't have a jar knock something off a shelf on the way out (Dilly Beans advertising slogan)
• In on the act
• In the beginning was the word
• In the heat of battle
• Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
• It was the night before Christmas and all round the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
• It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
• Jump start
• Kelloggs, because your best days start with breakfast (Kelloggs advertising slogan)
• Kick start
• Killing Me Softly With His Song (Roberta Flack song
• Kills bugs dead (Raid advertising slogan)
• Knock 'em dead
• Knock Three Times (Tony Orlando and Dawn song)
• Knock about

• Knock about comedy
• Knock back
• Knock back a few
• Knock down drag out
• Knock flat
• Knock for knock
• Knock for six
• Knock heads together
• Knock into shape
• Knock into the middle of next week
• Knock it into a cocked hat
• Knock it off
• Knock it on the head
• Knock it out of the park (A baseball expression denoting a complete or spectacular success)
• Knock knock, who's there
• Knock off
• Knock on the door
• Knock on wood
• Knock sideways
• Knock something together
• Knock spots off
• Knock the cover off the ball (A baseball expression meaning succeed beyond expectation)
• Knock the stuffing out of
• Knock the wind out of
• Knock them in the aisles
• Knock up against
• Knock your heads together
• Knock your socks off
• Knock yourself out
• Lace into
• Lash out
• Launch out at
• Let battle commence
• Let fly
• Let the punishment fit the crime
• Life and death struggle
• Like a ton of bricks
• Line of attack
• Live to fight another day
• Love makes the world go round
• Mace your face
• Make a fresh start
• Make a move on
• Make your move
• Million Dollar Bash (Bob Dylan song)
• Money makes the world go round
• Move It On Over (Hank Williams song)
• Move On Up a Little Higher (Mahalia Jackson song)
• Move heaven and earth
• Move in the best circles
• Move over
• Move right along
• Move with the times
• Mug's game
• New start
• No rush
• Nose for crime
• Not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning
• On the move
• On the offensive
• Partners in crime
• Perfect storm
• Phone it in (perform an act in an uncommitted disinterested manner)
• Pick a fight
• Pillow fight
• Pitch into
• Play hardball (A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive)
• Pommy bashing (Australian slang term for physical or verbal attacks on the English)
• Put on an act
• Put the hurt on
• Queer bashing
• Quiet before the storm
• Rally round
• Rally round the flag
• Random act of kindness
• Read the riot act
• Revenge mission (an attempt to seek active retribution)
• Richard of York gave battle in vain
• Right Round (Flo Rida song)
• Ring round
• Round Ireland With A Fridge (Tony Hawks book)
• Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk tune)
• Round Robin
• Round and round the garden like a teddy bear (line from nursery rhyme)
• Round down
• Round table talks
• Round the bend
• Round the houses
• Round the table
• Round the twist
• Round trip trading
• Round up
• Round up the usual suspects (Casablanca)
• Run toward the sound of gunfire
• Running battle
• Rush job
• Rush of blood
• Rush the growler
• Rush to judgement
• Sail into
• Score points off
• Serious as a heart attack
• Siege mentality
• Sister Act (Whoopie Goldberg movie)
• Smooth move
• Snack attack
• So round, so firm, so fully packed (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Son of a whore (a bastard, or a general term of abuse)
• Spit in the eye of
• Spoiling for a fight
• Square peg in a round hole
• Stand up fight
• Start again
• Start from scratch
• Start over
• Start the ball rolling
• Stick it to the man
• Storm in a teacup
• Storm of controversy
• Suck it up (accept a bad situation and move on)
• Sugar rush
• Take a bite out of crime
• Take a bite out of crime! (National Crime Prevention Council advertising slogan)
• Take a pop at
• Take charge
• Take the town by storm
• That frosty mug sensation (A&W Root Beer advertising slogan)
• That's not a knife; that's a knife (Crocodile Dundee)
• The Barbarians are at the gate
• The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton
• The Flying Squad (Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard)
• The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin movie)
• The Napoleon of Crime (Nickname of Professor Moriarty)
• The Rape Of The Lock (Alexander Pope book)
• The Round Mound of Rebound (Nickname of Charles Barkley)
• The Shadow knows (A catchphrase from the crime fighting vigilante)
• The act you've known for all these years (Beatles song lyric)
• The battle of the bulge
• The beginning of the end
• The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner (9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan)
• The fog of war (confusion caused by the chaos of battle)
• The glorious twelfth (of August - the start of the British grouse shooting season)
• The knives are out
• The perfect crime
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• The start of a beautiful friendship
• The wheels on the bus go round and round (title of children's song)
• There's a storm brewing
• Think global, act local
• Think globally, act locally (Friends of the Earth advertising slogan)
• Three, four, knock at the door (line from nursery rhyme)
• Throw a beanball (A baseball expression meaning to attack an opponent by aiming at their head)
• Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (Dawn with Tony Orlando song)
• Tilting at windmills
• Tittle tattle lost the battle (WWII slogan)
• To boldly go where no man has gone before (A catchphrase from Start Trek)
• Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime (Tony Blair political slogan)
• Triple play (A baseball expression denoting the act of making three outs during the same play)
• Ugly mug
• Under fire
• Under pressure
• Wage war
• War footing (preparedness to fight a military campaign)
• Wardrobe mistress (a person in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company)
• We really move our tail for you (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• We will fight on the beaches
• Weather the storm
• Why you!
• You are now free to move about the country (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
• You can't fight city hall