Chessboard Phrases

Phrases

• A cat may look at a king
• A move in the right direction
• A white knight
• Above board
• Across the board
• America loves burgers, and we're America's Burger King (Burger King advertising slogan)
• An Englishman's home is his castle
• Another One Bites The Dust (Queen song)
• Aren't you hungry for Burger King now? (Burger King advertising slogan)
• As the actress said to the bishop
• Baby on board
• Back to the drawing board
• Balmoral Castle (tourist attraction in Scotland)
• Bash the bishop
• Be It Ever So Humble There's No Place Like Home (John Howard Payne and Sir Henry Bishop song)
• Beauty queen
• Bed and board
• Beef. It's what's for dinner (Cattlemen's Beef Board advertising slogan)
• Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen song)
• Bold move
• Burger King - the home of the Whopper (Burger King advertising slogan)
• Burger King. Where kids are king (Burger King advertising slogan)
• Bust a move (dance in a stylish way)
• Career limiting move
• Check it out
• Check out
• Check out the plumbing
• Check the plumbing
• Check you on the flip side
• Check your sources
• China plate (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
• Closet queen
• Come home to a real fire (Coal Board advertising slogan)
• Comeback king
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Queen song)
• Did the earth move for you
• Digging the dancing queen (ABBA lyric)
• Don't Stop Me Now (Queen song)
• Double check
• Drag queen
• Drink more milk (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Drinka pinta milka day (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Edinburgh Castle (tourist attraction in Scotland)
• Face card (the jack queeen or king in a set of playing cards)
• Faith will move mountains
• Farmer George (Nickname of King George III)
• Fast food and good for you (Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Fit for a king
• Full of natural goodness (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Get a move on
• Go by the board
• Go to work on an egg (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• God save the Queen
• Good Queen Bess (Nickname of Queen Elizabeth I)
• Got milk? (California Milk Processor Board advertising slogan)
• Gravity check
• Groaning board
• Happiness is egg shaped (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Have it your way (Burger King advertising slogan)
• Homecoming queen
• I Capture The Castle (Dodie Smith book)
• I Like To Move It (Reel 2 Reel song)
• Idiot board
• In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king
• Is your man getting enough? (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• It takes two hands to hold a Whopper (Burger King advertising slogan)
• It's A Kind Of Magic (Queen song)
• Keep in check
• Killer Queen (Queen song)
• King Dick (Nickname of Richard Cromwell)
• King Eric (Nickname of Eric Cantona)
• King Felix (Nickname of Felix Hernandez)
• King James (Nickname of LeBron James)
• King Kong (Naomi Watts movie)
• King Lear
• King Solomon's Mines
• King of Clutch (Nickname of Reggie Miller)
• King of Spain (Nickname of Ashley Giles - English cricketer)
• King of kings
• King of the castle
• King of the hill
• King of the jungle
• King of the road
• King pin
• King sized
• King's evidence
• King's ransom
• Knight in shining armour

• Knight of the road
• Label queen
• Live like a king
• Make a list; check it twice
• Make a move on
• Make your move
• Mate's rates (discount price offered to friends)
• Milk's gotta lotta bottle (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Milk. It does a body good (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Move It On Over (Hank Williams song)
• Move On Up a Little Higher (Mahalia Jackson song)
• Move heaven and earth
• Move in the best circles
• Move over
• Move right along
• Move with the times
• My old china (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
• Naruwan, Welcome to Taiwan (Taiwan Tourist Board advertising slogan)
• Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he (line from nursery rhyme)
• On board
• On the move
• Once and future king
• Only A Pawn In Their Game (Bob Dylan song)
• Queen for a day
• Queen it over
• Reality check
• Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
• Save The Last Dance For Me (Ben E King song)
• Smooth move
• Somebody To Love (Queen song)
• Sounding board
• Spanish Harlem (Ben E King song)
• Suck it up (accept a bad situation and move on)
• Sun King (The Beatles song)
• Sweep the board
• Take something on board
• Take the king's shilling
• The African Queen (Humphrey Bogart / Katharine Hepburn movie)
• The Chairman of The Board (Nickname of Frank Sinatra)
• The Dowager Queen of the Game Shows (Nickname of Pat Carroll)
• The Hammer of The Scots (Nickname of King Edward I)
• The King (Nickname of Elvis Presley)
• The King Of Comedy (Robert De Niro movie)
• The King and Queen Might Eat Thereof and Noblemen Besides (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• The King is dead, long live the King
• The King of Beers (Budweiser Beer advertising slogan)
• The King of Late Night Television (Nickname of Jack Paar)
• The King of Rock 'N' Roll (Nickname of Elvis Presley)
• The King of Swing (Nickname of Benny Goodman)
• The King of the Cowboys (Nickname of Roy Rogers)
• The King of the Mini-series (Nickname of Richard Chamberlain)
• The King of the Wild Frontier (Nickname of explorer Davy Crockett)
• The King's Speech (Colin Firth movie)
• The Lion King (Disney cartoon movie)
• The Little Queen of the Soap Operas (Nickname of actress Anne Francis)
• The Lizard King (Nickname of Jim Morrison)
• The Nine Days Queen (Nickname of Lady Jane Grey)
• The Queen Of Mean (Nickname of Anne Robinson)
• The Queen Of The Adriatic (Nickname of Venice Italy)
• The Queen Of The Coast (Nickname of Mar del Plata Argentina)
• The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts all on a summer's day (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Queen of How-To (Nickname of Martha Stewart)
• The Queen of Nice (Nickname of comedienne Rosie O'Donnell)
• The Queen of TV Comedy (Nickname of comedienne Lucille Ball)
• The Rat Pack (Nickname of entertainers Dean Martin Sammy Davis Jr Peter Lawford Joey Bishop and Frank Sinatra)
• The Sun King (Nickname of King Louis XIV)
• The Virgin Queen (Nickname of Queen Elizabeth I)
• The Widow of Windsor (Nickname of Queen Victoria)
• The Wisest Fool In Christendom (Nickname of King James I)
• The check is in the mail
• The customer is king
• The king was in his counting house counting out his money (line from nursery rhyme)
• The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey (line from nursery rhyme)
• The queen's English
• Up On The Roof (Carole King song)
• Watch out there's a Humphrey about (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• We Are The Champions (Queen song)
• We Will Rock You (Queen song)
• We do it your way (Burger King advertising slogan)
• We really move our tail for you (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• White knight
• Who's got the best darn burgers in the whole wide world? (Burger King and I advertising slogan)
• Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? (Carole King song)
• Windsor Castle (tourist attraction in England)
• You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman (Carole King song)
• You are now free to move about the country (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
• You can rely on the lion (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• You're the boss (Burger King advertising slogan)
• You've Got A Friend (Carole King James Taylor song)