Cob Phrases

Phrases

• A Man Called Horse (Richard Harris movie)
• A camel is a horse designed by committee
• A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse
• As rare as rocking horse droppings
• Back the wrong horse
• Bread always falls butter side down
• Bread and butter
• Bread and circuses
• Bread of life
• Bread wi' nowt taken out (Allinson's Bread advertising slogan)
• Break bread
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• Cast your bread upon the waters
• Charley horse
• Choke a horse
• Dark horse
• Does a wooden horse have a hickory dick?
• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
• Don't say brown - say Hovis (Hovis Bread advertising slogan)
• Duncan the Wonder Horse (Nickname of TV news anchor Tom Brokaw)
• Eat like a horse
• Flogging a dead horse
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
• Fresh to the last slice (Sunblest Bread advertising slogan)
• Gee gee (childish term for a horse)
• Get off your high horse
• Half a loaf is better than no bread
• Have your bread buttered on both sides
• Heads will roll
• Horse Feathers (Marx Brothers movie)
• Horse and cart (Cockney rhyming slang for fart)
• Horse around
• Horse feathers
• Horse laugh
• Horse of a different colour
• Horse play
• Horse sense
• Horse whisperer
• Horse's ass
• Horse's douffers
• Hung like a horse
• I Wanna Rock And Roll All Night (Kiss song)
• I could eat a horse
• It's Only Rock And Roll, But I Like It (Rolling Stones song)
• It's no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted

• Know which side your bread is buttered
• Let the good times roll
• Loaf of bread (Cockney rhyming slang for head)
• Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage
• Man does not live by bread alone
• My friend, Joe Holmes, is now a horse (Arrow Shirts advertising slogan)
• Never look a gift horse in the mouth
• On a roll
• One horse town
• Piss like a race horse
• Put bread on the table
• Put the cart before the horse
• Ready to roll
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rock And Roll Dreams Come True (Meatloaf song)
• Rock and roll
• Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry song)
• Roll call
• Roll deep
• Roll in the aisles
• Roll in the hay
• Roll off the tongue
• Roll out the red carpet
• Roll over and play dead
• Roll up your sleeves
• Roll up, roll up, all the fun of the fair
• Roll with the punches
• Sex and drugs, and rock and roll
• Shake Rattle And Roll (Bill Haley song)
• Stalking horse
• Stop drop and roll
• Sweating cobs
• Take the bread out of someone's mouth
• The Horse Whisperer (Robert Redford movie)
• The Iron Horse (Nickname of Lou Gehrig)
• The King of Rock 'N' Roll (Nickname of Elvis Presley)
• The Wild Horse of the Osage (Nickname of Pepper Martin)
• The best thing since sliced bread
• The bread always falls buttered side down
• The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey (line from nursery rhyme)
• Whatever it is I think I see becomes a Tootsie Roll to me! (Tootsie Rolls advertising slogan)
• Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies (Beatles song lyric)
• White bread
• You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink
• You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's Rye Bread (Levy's Rye Bread advertising slogan)