Bend Phrases

Phrases

• A hands turn
• A tight corner
• A turn for the worse
• About turn
• After all, tomorrow is another day (Gone With the Wind)
• Ahead of the curve
• Angle for
• Any way the wind blows
• Arch enemy
• Bad turn
• Behind the curve
• Bend over backwards to help
• Bend the rules
• Bend to my will
• Bend your ear
• Bend your elbow
• Bent double
• Bent out of shape
• Blind corner
• Blow with the wind
• Blowin' In The Wind (Bob Dylan song)
• Bow the knee
• Break wind
• Breath of wind
• Buggin's turn
• Can't Turn You Loose (Otis Redding song)
• Candle In The Wind (Elton John song)
• Cleans round the bend (Harpic Lavatory Cleaner advertising slogan)
• Coffin corner
• Come wind come weather
• Corner the market
• Curl up and die
• Curl your lip
• Curve ball (a difficult proposition - deriving from baseball terminology)
• Didn't turn a hair
• Do a good turn
• Don't get your knickers in a twist
• Done to a turn
• Drive someone into a corner
• Enough to make your hair curl
• Even a worm will turn
• Fender bender
• Flex your muscles
• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn (Gone With the Wind)
• Gender bender
• Get wind of
• Go down on bended knee
• Go like the wind
• Go on a bender
• Go out of curl
• Go to a neutral corner
• Gone With The Wind (Clark Gable / Vivien Leigh movie)
• Got the wind up
• Hand's turn
• Handbrake turn (180 degree turn in a car by locking the back wheels)
• Head wind
• Hell bent
• Housemaid's knee
• Idiot Wind (Bob Dylan song)
• In the loop
• In your corner
• It's an ill wind that blows no one any good
• Jimmy Horner (Cockney rhyming slang for corner)
• Just around the corner
• Kitty corner
• Knee deep in
• Knee high to a duck
• Knee high to a grasshopper
• Knee jerk reaction
• Knee trembler
• Knock the wind out of
• Learning curve
• Learnt at your mother's knee
• Like a candle in the wind
• Like the wind
• Little Jack Horner sat in a corner (line from nursery rhyme)
• Loop the loop
• Make someone's toes curl
• Not the ill wind which blows no man to good

• On bended knee
• On the turn
• One good turn deserves another
• One two many and you might turn Bertie (Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts advertising slogan)
• Paint yourself into a corner
• Painted into a corner
• Pissing in the wind
• Please turn over
• Put the wind up
• Raise the wind
• Ride like the wind
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Round the bend
• Round the twist
• Run like the wind
• Sail close to the wind
• Second wind
• Stay ahead of the curve
• Summer Wind (Frank Sinatra song)
• Swing in the wind
• Take a turn for the worse
• Take the wind out of my sails
• The Big Bend State (Nickname of the US state of Tennessee)
• The Naughty Corner
• The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Wind in the Willows (children's book by Kenneth Grahame)
• The answer my friend is blowing in the wind (Bob Dylan song lyric)
• The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on
• The wind of change is blowing through this continent
• They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind
• Three sheets to the wind
• Throw caution to the wind
• Thrown for a loop
• Turn a blind eye
• Turn a trick
• Turn back the clock
• Turn coat
• Turn geese into swans
• Turn heads
• Turn in
• Turn it in
• Turn of events
• Turn of phrase
• Turn of the century
• Turn on
• Turn on a dime
• Turn on the fun (Best Buy advertising slogan)
• Turn on your heel
• Turn on, tune in, drop out (A catchphrase from Timothy Leary)
• Turn over a new leaf
• Turn that frown upside down
• Turn the clock back
• Turn the corner
• Turn the other cheek
• Turn the tables
• Turn the tide
• Turn to ashes in your mouth
• Turn turtle
• Turn up for the books
• Turn up the heat
• Turn up your toes
• Turn your back on
• Turn your nose up at
• Turn your stomach
• Twist And Shout (Beatles song)
• Twist around your little finger
• Twist in the wind
• Twist of fate
• Twist the knife
• Twist your arm
• Wind at your back
• Wind dummy
• Wind farm
• Wind of Change (Scorpions song)
• Wind someone up (deliberately draw attention to something that will create agitation)
• Wind up
• Wind up in
• Wind your neck in
• You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows