Contest Phrases

Phrases

• A match made in heaven
• A pitched battle
• Acid test
• Ahead of the game
• All out war
• All your base are belong to us (broken English phrase used in the video game Zero Wing)
• All's fair in love and war
• America's Oldest Living Teenager (Nickname of game show host Dick Clark)
• An uphill battle
• And never the twain shall meet
• Anyone's game
• Art Of War (Sun Tzu book)
• Art of war
• Articles of war
• As game as Ned Kelly
• Battle of the sexes
• Battle of wits
• Battle ready
• Battle royal
• Battle stations
• Beaten at your own game
• Beauty contest (a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy)
• Beauty parade (a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy)
• Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Posey)
• Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Worthy)
• Blame game
• Blow off the stage
• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• Brand new ballgame (A baseball expression meaning when a team that has been behind ties up the game)
• Bring your A game (perform to your best ability)
• Call of Duty (video game title)
• Cat and mouse game
• Challenge everything (EA Games advertising slogan)
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
• Cut throat competition
• Deep Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Didn't they do well! (A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth In The Generation Game)
• Different ball game
• Do not meet your troubles halfway
• Don't mention the war (A catchphrase from Faulty Towers)
• Don't you know there's a war on? (WWII slogan)
• Double blind test
• Egg and spoon race
• End of the ball game
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Eye up the competition
• Face the competition
• Fair game
• Final cut
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• First cut
• Fog of war
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Game bird
• Game brain
• Game changer
• Game of two halves
• Game on
• Game over
• Game plan
• Game set and match
• Game time
• Game to the last
• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room (Dr.Strangelove)
• Get ready to rumble (prepare to fight or do battle)
• Give the game away
• Go to war
• Golden Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting a player who strikes out four times in a game)
• Got game
• Grand Theft Auto (video game title)
• Group of death (the most difficult or competitive group in a sports tournament)
• Guessing game
• Had a good war (to have been successful during a military campaign)
• Half the battle
• Hatch, match and dispatch
• How goes the battle?
• I want YOU for the US Army (World War I and World War II advertising slogan)
• I'm game
• If you vote for Goldwater, you'll get a war in Vietnam (Political slogan)
• In the heat of battle
• It's in the game (EA Sports advertising slogan)
• It's just a game
• It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game
• It's only a game
• La Belle Epoque (the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World War)
• Late in the game
• Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Let battle commence
• Lift your game
• Litmus test
• Local derby
• Long Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Stop (field position in the game of cricket)
• Loose lips sink ships (World War II advertising slogan)
• Love match
• Make ends meet
• Make love not war
• Make war
• Mario Kart (video game title)
• Masters Of War (Bob Dylan song)
• Meet Me In St. Louis (Judy Garland movie)
• Meet The Fockers (Dustin Hoffman / Robert De Niro movie)
• Meet and greet
• Meet in the middle
• Meet one's eye
• Meet the bill
• Meet the challenge
• Meet up
• Meet with approval
• Meet you halfway
• Meet your Waterloo
• Meet your maker
• Meet your match
• Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)

• Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mix and match
• More than a match for
• Mug's game
• Must win game
• Never the twain shall meet
• No challenge too great
• No contest
• Numbers game
• On the game
• One on one
• Only A Pawn In Their Game (Bob Dylan song)
• Only game in town
• Perfect match
• Piss like a race horse
• Pissing contest
• Platinum Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting striking out five times in a game)
• Play a waiting game
• Play the game
• Play the percentage game
• Play the race card
• Primal Rage (film and video game)
• Put to the test
• Put your game face on
• Race against the clock
• Race against time
• Race for the taste, the honey sweet taste!, the honey-nutty taste of Honey Nut Cheerios (Cheerios Cereals advertising slogan)
• Race proven performance (Kumho Tires advertising slogan)
• Race to the bottom
• Raise your game
• Rat race
• Richard of York gave battle in vain
• Rise to the challenge
• Running battle
• Sack race
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Shell game
• Shooting war
• Short Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Skin in the game
• Sod this for a game of soldiers
• Sonic the Hedgehog (video game title)
• Spoils of war
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Stare out
• Stiff competition
• Super Mario Brothers (video game title)
• Sword play
• Take me out to the ball game
• Talk a good game
• Test bed
• Test of faith
• Test the water
• Test tube baby
• The Amazing Race (US TV show)
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton
• The Cold War
• The Dowager Queen of the Game Shows (Nickname of Pat Carroll)
• The Master Race
• The Sims (video game title)
• The Thriller In Manila (Ali versus Frazier boxing match)
• The War Of The Roses (Michael Douglas movie)
• The battle of the bulge
• The beautiful game
• The blame game
• The fog of war (confusion caused by the chaos of battle)
• The fortunes of war
• The game is afoot
• The game is up
• The human race
• The name game
• The name of the game
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• The smoker's match (Swan Vesta matches advertising slogan)
• The war to end wars
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
• Three on a match
• Tittle tattle lost the battle (WWII slogan)
• Trap and ball (children's ball game)
• Two can play at that game
• Up your game
• Wage war
• War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy book)
• War baby (someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier)
• War cemetery
• War chalking
• War criminal (someone who has flouted the Geneva Convention)
• War debt
• War driving
• War eagle (the golden eagle - used by Native Americans to make headdresses)
• War footing (preparedness to fight a military campaign)
• War game (a simulation of war intended as preparation)
• War hero (someone who acted heroically during a war)
• War is hell
• War movie (a film with war as the subject matter)
• War of nerves
• War of words
• War paint
• War room (the place where war plans are directed)
• War torn (severely damaged by war)
• War weary (tired of conflict)
• War widow (a woman whose husband died in a war)
• War zone (the area that a war has taken place)
• What did you do in the war Daddy?
• What's your game?
• When shall we three meet again?
• When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
• Who are you? (Nintendo Game Boy Advance advertising slogan)
• Whole new ball game
• Whole shooting match
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)
• World Series
• You are in a Beauty Contest Every Day of your Life (Camay Soap advertising slogan)
• You meet the nicest people on a Honda (Honda advertising slogan)
• Your starter for ten (A catchphrase from University Challenge)
• Zero sum game