Bough Phrases

Phrases

• Born within the sound of Bow Bells
• Bow and arrow squad
• Bow and scrape
• Bow down before
• Bow out
• Bow the knee
• Bow to fate
• Bow to reason
• Branch out
• Deck the halls with boughs of holly
• Don't shoot the messenger
• Don't shoot the piano player
• Don't shoot until you can see the whites of their eyes
• Fork out
• Fork the tree
• Go out on a limb
• Have a second string to your bow have
• His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes story)
• If I tell you I will have to shoot you
• Just shoot me
• Knife and fork it
• Life and limb
• More than one string to your bow
• Olive branch
• Risk life and limb
• Root and branch
• Shoot 'em up
• Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)

• Shoot a fairy
• Shoot blanks
• Shoot down in flames (destroy an argument or theory)
• Shoot first, ask questions later
• Shoot from the hip
• Shoot him down in flames
• Shoot hoops
• Shoot it out
• Shoot me now
• Shoot on sight
• Shoot someone a line
• Shoot straight (to talk or deal honestly)
• Shoot the breeze
• Shoot the moon (remove household goods by night to avoid paying rent)
• Shoot the puppy
• Shoot through (to leave or abscond)
• Shoot to kill
• Shoot your cuffs
• Shoot your mouth off
• Shoot yourself in the foot
• Stop, or my mom will shoot (line from Sylvestor Stallone movie)
• Take a bow
• Tear limb from limb
• The It Girl (Nickname of Clara Bow)
• The Mahatma (Nickname of Branch Rickey executive)
• They Shoot Horses Don't They? (Jane Fonda movie)
• Turkey shoot
• Two strings to his bow
• When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)