Cannonball Phrases

Phrases

• A bigger bang for your buck
• Address the ball (golfing term denoting readiness to play)
• After the ball was over
• Ball achingly good
• Ball and chain
• Ball of fire
• Ban the bomb
• Bang goes nothing
• Bang on
• Bang on about
• Bang out of order
• Bang to rights
• Bang your head against a brick wall
• Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head (The Beatles song lyric)
• Behind the eight ball
• Big bang
• Bite the bullet
• Bullet Joe (Nickname of baseball player Charles Rogan)
• Can of corn (A baseball expression meaning a ball which is easy to catch)
• Cannon fodder
• Carry the ball
• Curve ball (a difficult proposition - deriving from baseball terminology)
• Death metal
• Different ball game
• Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Peter Sellers movie)
• Dodged a bullet
• Drop the ball
• End of the ball game
• Faster than a speeding bullet (A catchphrase from Superman)
• Father of The Atomic Bomb (Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer)
• Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick movie)
• Gang bang
• Get a bang out of something
• Get the ball rolling
• Give someone a rocket
• Go with a bang
• Ground ball (A baseball expression meaning a prosaic or ordinary accomplishment)
• Have a ball
• Have the ball at your feet
• Heavy metal
• High ball
• It's not rocket science
• Keep the ball rolling
• Keep your eye on the ball
• Knock the cover off the ball (A baseball expression meaning succeed beyond expectation)

• Laser Rocket Arm (Nickname of Peyton Manning)
• Letter bomb
• Looks like a bomb has hit it
• Loose cannon
• Magic bullet
• Metal fatigue
• More bang for your buck
• Not with a bang but a whimper (from a poem by Eliot)
• Not with a bang but with a whimper
• On the ball
• Play ball
• Pocket rocket
• Put the pedal to the metal
• Rocket Man (Elton John song)
• Rubber bullet (a bullet made of rubber or plastic and used for riot control)
• Run with the ball
• Silver bullet (a simple and seeming effortless solution to a difficult problem)
• Slap bang in the middle
• Sphere of influence
• Spot the ball
• Start the ball rolling
• Take me out to the ball game
• That's the way the ball bounces
• The Cajun Cannon (Nickname of Bobby Hebert)
• The Cannonball Kid (Nickname of tennis player Roscoe Tanner)
• The Head Ball Coach (Nickname of Steve Spurrier)
• The Missile (Nickname of Qadry Ismail)
• The Mississippi Bullet (Nickname of Monta Ellis)
• The Ol' Ball Coach (Nickname of Steve Spurrier)
• The Pocket Rocket (Nickname of Wayne McCullough Flag of Northern Ireland Flag of Ireland)
• The Polish Cannon (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
• The Queen of TV Comedy (Nickname of comedienne Lucille Ball)
• The Red Rocket (Nickname of Matt Bonner)
• The Rocket (Nickname of Raghib Ismail)
• The Rocket (Nickname of Roger Clemens)
• 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)
• Wabash Cannonball (Roy Acuff song)
• Weather bomb (a rapidly deepening low pressure area causing severe storms)
• Whole ball of wax
• Whole new ball game