Cowboy Phrases

Phrases

• A Fistful Of Dollars (Clint Eastwood movie)
• A Man Called Horse (Richard Harris movie)
• A bull and cow (Cockney rhyming slang for row or argument)
• A camel is a horse designed by committee
• A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse
• A man's got to do what a man's got to do
• Alamo City (Nickname of San Antonio Texas)
• All I know is what I read in the papers (Will Rogers quotation)
• All behind, like a cow's tail
• All hat and no cattle
• America's Favorite Cowboy (Nickname of actor Gene Autry)
• As rare as rocking horse droppings
• At the end of a gun
• Babies love it (Cow & Gate Milk Food advertising slogan)
• Back the wrong horse
• Bat Masterson (Nickname of American western character William Barclay Masterson)
• Bite the dust
• Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks movie)
• Blood brothers
• Brown Eyes Handsome Man (Jerry Lee Lewis song)
• Butch Cassidy (Nickname of Robert Parker)
• Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (Paul Newman / Robert Redford movie)
• Cash cow
• Charley horse
• Chew a gun
• Choke a horse
• Coogan's Bluff (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman movie)
• Cow juice
• Cowboy coffee
• Cowboy marketing
• Crazy Gun Barney (Nickname of Barney Fife (Don Knotts))
• Dark horse
• Desperate Dan (a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The Dandy)
• Does a wooden horse have a hickory dick?
• Don't amount to a hill of beans
• Don't have a cow, man (A catchphrase from The Simpsons)
• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
• Double denim (denim jeans worn with a denim shirt or jacket)
• Drugstore cowboy
• Duncan the Wonder Horse (Nickname of TV news anchor Tom Brokaw)
• Eat like a horse
• Flogging a dead horse
• For A Few Dollars More (Clint Eastwood movie)
• 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
• Gee gee (childish term for a horse)
• Get off your high horse
• Give it the gun
• Go West young man
• Gun down
• Gunfight At The O K Corral (Burt Lancaster / Kurt Douglas movie)
• Happiness Is A Warm Gun (The Beatles song)
• Have a cow
• Have gun, will travel (A catchphrase from TV series)
• Head them off at the pass
• High Noon (Gary Cooper movie)
• Hiyo Silver away (A catchphrase from The Lone Ranger)
• Hold a gun to his head
• Holy cow
• Holy cow Batman
• Home, home on the range
• 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
• How The West Was Won (James Stewart movie)
• How now brown cow?
• Howdy partner
• Hung like a horse
• I Shot The Sheriff (Eric Clapton song)

• I could eat a horse
• Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
• It's no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted
• Jump the gun
• Ke-mo sah-bee (A catchphrase from Tonto In The Lone Ranger)
• Kemo Sabe (Nickname of The Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore))
• Leave the gun, take the cannoli (line from The Godfather)
• Like a pig from a gun
• Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage
• Machine Gun Kelly (Nickname of George Kelly)
• Midnight Cowboy (Dustin Hoffman / Jon Voight movie)
• Mother Superior jumped the gun (Beatles song lyric)
• Mr. Cowboy (Nickname of Bob Lilly)
• My friend, Joe Holmes, is now a horse (Arrow Shirts advertising slogan)
• Never look a gift horse in the mouth
• North To Alaska (John Wayne movie)
• Oh Give Me A Home Where The Buffalo Roam (Brewster Higly song)
• One horse town
• Paint Your Wagon (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Piss like a race horse
• Put a gun to your head
• Put the cart before the horse
• Red River (John Wayne / Howard Hawks movie)
• Rhinestone cowboy
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• Ride off into the sunset
• Rio Grande (John Wayne movie)
• Rootin'est, tootin'est cowboy
• Round up
• Sacred cow
• Saddle tramp
• Say kids, what time is it? (A catchphrase from Howdy Doody Show)
• See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
• Shoot 'em up
• Shootout at the OK Corral
• Smoking gun
• Son of a gun
• Stalking horse
• Step out with a Stetson (Stetson advertising slogan)
• That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine (Gene Autry song)
• The Alamo (tourist attraction in the USA)
• The Cowboy State (Nickname of the US state of Wyoming)
• The Fast Gun From Texas (Nickname of Dan Troop (John Russell))
• The Fighting Cowboy (Nickname of James Tillis)
• The Good The Bad And The Ugly (Clint Eastwood movie)
• The Grand Ol Opry (tourist attraction in Nashville USA)
• The Gun That Won The West (Nickname of the Colt revolver)
• The Horse Whisperer (Robert Redford movie)
• The Iron Horse (Nickname of Lou Gehrig)
• The King of the Cowboys (Nickname of Roy Rogers)
• The Lone Ranger (Pseudonym of John Reid (Clayton Moore))
• The Magnificent Seven (Steve McQueen / Yul Brynner / Charles Bronson movie)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (James Stewart / John Wayne movie)
• The Man With The Golden Gun (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
• The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood movie)
• The Searchers (John Wayne movie)
• The Singing Cowboy (Nickname of Gene Autry)
• The Singing Cowboy (Nickname of Roy Rogers)
• The Sundance Kid (Nickname of Harry Longbaugh)
• The Wild Horse of the Osage (Nickname of Pepper Martin)
• The Wild West
• The cow jumped over the moon (line from nursery rhyme)
• The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn (line from nursery rhyme)
• There's gold in them thar hills
• They went that a'way
• True Grit (John Wayne movie)
• Tumbling tumbleweed
• Under the gun
• Urban cowboy
• Wanted, dead or alive
• What we have here is a failure to communicate (line from Cool Hand Luke)
• Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies (Beatles song lyric)
• White man speak with forked tongue
• Who was that masked man? (A catchphrase from The Lone Ranger)
• Why buy the cow when the milk is free?
• Wild Bill Hickock (Nickname of James Hickock)
• Wild and woolly
• You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink

Related

• America's Favorite Cowboy (Nickname of actor Gene Autry)
• Cowboy coffee
• Cowboy marketing
• Desperate Dan (a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The Dandy)
• Drugstore cowboy
• Midnight Cowboy (Dustin Hoffman / Jon Voight movie)
• Mr. Cowboy (Nickname of Bob Lilly)
• Rhinestone cowboy
• Rootin'est, tootin'est cowboy
• The Cowboy State (Nickname of the US state of Wyoming)
• The Fighting Cowboy (Nickname of James Tillis)
• The Singing Cowboy (Nickname of Gene Autry)
• The Singing Cowboy (Nickname of Roy Rogers)
• Urban cowboy