Bead Phrases

Phrases

• Address the ball (golfing term denoting readiness to play)
• After the ball was over
• At the drop of a hat
• Ball achingly good
• Ball and chain
• Ball of fire
• Beads of sweat
• Behind the eight ball
• Blood, sweat and tears
• Break out in a cold sweat
• Break sweat
• By the sweat of his brow
• Can of corn (A baseball expression meaning a ball which is easy to catch)
• Carry the ball
• Chocolate drop
• Cold sweat
• Come out in a cold sweat
• Curve ball (a difficult proposition - deriving from baseball terminology)
• Different ball game
• Don't sweat it
• Don't sweat the small stuff
• Draw a bead on
• Drop It Like It's Hot (Snoop Dogg song)
• Drop a bombshell
• Drop a brick
• Drop a bundle
• Drop a clanger
• Drop a dime
• Drop a hint
• Drop a sprog
• Drop by
• Drop dead
• Drop dead gorgeous
• Drop dead list
• Drop down dead
• Drop in on
• Drop in the bucket
• Drop in the ocean
• Drop it like a hot potato
• Drop like a stone
• Drop me a line
• Drop off
• Drop someone off
• Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
• Drop the ball
• Drop your aitches
• Drop your bundle
• Drop your cookies
• Drop your drawers
• Drop your guard
• Drop your pants

• End of the ball game
• Flash crash (the sudden drop in the Dow Jones Index in 2010)
• Get the ball rolling
• Get the drop on
• Good to the last drop (Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan)
• Ground ball (A baseball expression meaning a prosaic or ordinary accomplishment)
• Have a ball
• Have the ball at your feet
• Hidden gem
• High ball
• Horses sweat, men perspire, women merely glow
• I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat (Winston Churchill quotation)
• In a cold sweat
• Jewel in the crown
• Keep the ball rolling
• Keep your eye on the ball
• Knock the cover off the ball (A baseball expression meaning succeed beyond expectation)
• Let it drop
• Love beads
• No sweat
• Old sweat
• On the ball
• Play ball
• Run with the ball
• Running with sweat
• Shop 'till you drop
• Spot the ball
• Start the ball rolling
• Stop drop and roll
• Sweat blood
• Sweat like a pig
• Swing by (slang expression meaning drop in for a visit)
• Take me out to the ball game
• That's the way the ball bounces
• The Gem (Nickname of Erie Pennsylvania)
• The Gem State (Nickname of the US state of Idaho)
• The Head Ball Coach (Nickname of Steve Spurrier)
• The Ol' Ball Coach (Nickname of Steve Spurrier)
• The Queen of TV Comedy (Nickname of comedienne Lucille Ball)
• The ball is in your court
• The belle of the ball
• The old ball and chain
• The sound of leather on willow (sound of the ball on the bat in cricket)
• The way the ball bounces
• Trap and ball (children's ball game)
• Turn on, tune in, drop out (A catchphrase from Timothy Leary)
• Waiting for the other shoe to drop
• Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink
• Whole ball of wax
• Whole new ball game
• You could have heard a pin drop
• You shop, we drop (Tesco home delivery advertising slogan)