Belt Phrases

Phrases

• Alexander's Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin song)
• And The Band Played On (Randy Shilts book)
• And the band played on
• Band of brothers
• Bash on
• Bash the bishop
• Beat the band
• Below the belt
• Belt and braces
• Belt it out
• Belt up
• Belted earl
• Bish bash bosh
• Buckle down
• Buckle under
• Buckle under the strain
• Buckle up
• Buckle your seat belts it's going to be a bumpy ride
• Buffer zone
• Cable ready
• Citizen band radio
• Click it or ticket (United States seat belt law advertising slogan)
• Clothes maketh the man
• Clunk click every trip (Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• Comfort zone
• Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid song)
• Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night (All About Eve)
• First strike
• Friend zone
• Garage band
• Gastric band (A device surgically inserted around the stomach intended to reduce appetite)
• Go out on strike (Withdraw one's labour and leave one's place of work)
• Hit 'em where they live
• Hit The Road Jack (Ray Charles song)
• Hit and miss
• Hit and run
• Hit by the stupid stick
• Hit for six
• Hit home
• Hit it off
• Hit it on the nose
• Hit it out of the park (A baseball expression denoting a complete or spectacular success)
• Hit list
• Hit man
• Hit me on the hip
• Hit on
• Hit out at
• Hit out of the park
• Hit parade
• Hit paydirt
• Hit rock bottom
• Hit send
• Hit the back wall
• Hit the bar
• Hit the books
• Hit the bottle
• Hit the brakes
• Hit the bricks (a cursory slang term telling someone to leave)
• Hit the buffers
• Hit the ceiling
• Hit the deck
• Hit the ground running
• Hit the hay
• Hit the headlines
• Hit the high notes
• Hit the jackpot

• Hit the nail on the head
• Hit the panic button
• Hit the road Jack
• Hit the roof
• Hit the sack
• Hit the skids
• Hit the slide
• Hit the spot
• Hit the woodwork
• Hit town
• In the zone
• It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play (Beatles song lyric)
• Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini
• Looks like a bomb has hit it
• Lucky Strike means finer tobacco (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Million Dollar Bash (Bob Dylan song)
• Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish (Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band song)
• No throat irritation - no cough (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• One two buckle my shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• Pinch hit (A baseball expression denoting a substitute or stand-in)
• Pre-emptive strike
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Reach for a Lucky instead of a Sweet (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles album and song)
• Smell the Glove (fictional album by the spoof heavy-metal band Spinal Tap)
• So round, so firm, so fully packed (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Strap on the feed bag
• Strike Up The Band (George Gershwin composition)
• Strike a balance
• Strike a chord with
• Strike a deal (or bargain)
• Strike a light
• Strike a pose
• Strike beard
• Strike it rich
• Strike lucky
• Strike me pink
• Strike out swinging (A baseball expression meaning to fail while giving it your best effort)
• Strike up the band
• Strike while the iron is hot
• Switch hitter (A baseball expression denoting a batter who can hit left or right handed)
• The Adventure of the Speckled Band (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Bible Belt
• The Boys in the Band (play by Mart Crowley)
• The Final Countdown (song by the Swedish band Europe)
• The Hit Dog (Nickname of Mo Vaughn)
• The Hit Man (Nickname of Bob Sanders)
• The Hit Man (Nickname of Ricky Hatton)
• The Hit Man (Nickname of Thomas Hearns)
• The Sash My Father Wore (Irish traditional song)
• The emperor's new clothes
• The sash my father wore
• There's never a rough puff in a lucky (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• They're toasted (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Tighten your belt
• Tiptoe through the tulips (1920s Broadway song and Tiny Tim hit)
• To beat the band
• Twilight zone
• Under your belt
• Underneath Your Clothes (Shakira song)
• War zone (the area that a war has taken place)
• We few, we happy few, we band of brothers (from Henry V by Shakespeare)
• You could learn a lot from a dummy, Buckle Up (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration advertising slogan)
• You have entered the twilight zone (A catchphrase from The Twilight Zone)
• Zone in on
• Zone out