Brake Phrases

Phrases

• 11:30, Diet Coke break (Coca Cola advertising slogan)
• A bad break
• A cup of coffee (A baseball expression denoting a break from major league baseball)
• A drowning man will clutch at a straw
• Anchor man
• As slow as molasses in January
• Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me (from a poem by Dickinson)
• Best stop now
• Blind Before I Stop (Meatloaf song)
• Break a butterfly on a wheel
• Break a leg
• Break and enter (Unlawfully enter a locked premises)
• Break bread
• Break camp
• Break cover
• Break even
• Break new ground
• Break out in a cold sweat
• Break out of the ordinary (Nestle's Butterfinger advertising slogan)
• Break ranks
• Break sweat
• Break the back of something
• Break the bank
• Break the habit
• Break the ice
• Break the mould
• Break the news
• Break the sound barrier
• Break through (Cadillac advertising slogan)
• Break up
• Break wind
• Break with tradition
• Break your back
• Break your balls
• Break your heart
• Break your neck
• Can't Slow Down (Lionel Richie album)
• Cast anchor
• Check it out
• Check out
• Check out the plumbing
• Check the plumbing
• Check you on the flip side
• Check your sources
• Clutch at straws
• Clutch hitter
• Curb appeal
• Curb your enthusiasm
• Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down
• Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Peter Sellers movie)
• Don't Stop Believin' (Journey song)
• Don't Stop Me Now (Queen song)
• Double check
• Drum break (A short drum solo in a song, or a form of brake on a vehicle)
• Duncan the Wonder Horse (Nickname of TV news anchor Tom Brokaw)
• Face that could stop a clock
• Free rein
• Give me a break
• Give me a break! Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar! (Kit Kat chocolate advertising slogan)
• Gravity check

• Handbrake turn (180 degree turn in a car by locking the back wheels)
• Have a break, have a Kit Kat (Kit Kat chocolate advertising slogan)
• Have you had your break today? (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Hit the brakes
• I Can't Stop Loving You (Ray Charles song)
• If enough people would stop smoking and start drinking, we could get out of ashtrays and into vermouth (Cinzano advertising slogan)
• It won't break the bank
• Keep in check
• King of Clutch (Nickname of Reggie Miller)
• Long Stop (field position in the game of cricket)
• Lucky break
• Make a break for it
• Make a clean break
• Make a list; check it twice
• Mr. Clutch (Nickname of Drew Pearson)
• Mr. Clutch (Nickname of Jerry West)
• Never give a sucker an even break (A catchphrase from W C Fields)
• No bottles to break - just hearts (Arpege Perfume advertising slogan)
• Once you pop you can't stop (Pringles advertising slogan)
• One stop shop
• Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Neil Young song)
• Painfully slow
• Point Break (Keanu Reeves movie)
• Put a damper on it
• Reality check
• Rest up (take a break from one's arduous efforts)
• Ride the clutch
• Slow burn
• Slow but sure
• Slow motion
• Slow on the uptake
• Slow slow quick quick slow
• Step on a crack, break your mother's back
• Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (from a poem by Auden)
• Stop and smell the roses
• Stop at nothing
• Stop drop and roll
• Stop faffing about
• Stop it you're killing me
• Stop me and buy one (Wall's Ice Cream advertising slogan)
• Stop me if you've heard this one
• Stop messing about (A catchphrase from Kenneth Williams)
• Stop on a dime
• Stop pumping your gums
• Stop the clock, I've found a clue
• Stop the rot
• Stop the show
• Stop the world I want to get off
• Stop traffic
• Stop! In The Name Of Love (The Supremes song)
• Stop, In The Name Of Love
• Stop, Look and Listen; remember the Green Cross Code (UK Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• Stop, or my mom will shoot (line from Sylvestor Stallone movie)
• The check is in the mail
• We never stop working for you (Verizon Wireless advertising slogan)
• Weigh anchor
• When you are in a hole, stop digging
• You can break a brolly but you can't k-nacker a Knirps (Knirps advertising slogan)
• You deserve a break today (McDonald's advertising slogan)