Crib Phrases

Phrases

• Ahead of the game
• All your base are belong to us (broken English phrase used in the video game Zero Wing)
• Alpha and omega (the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, used as a name for God or Jesus)
• America's Oldest Living Teenager (Nickname of game show host Dick Clark)
• And so to bed
• Anyone's game
• Apple pie bed
• As game as Ned Kelly
• As you make your bed so must you lie on it
• Asleep with Jesus
• Away in a manger
• Beaten at your own game
• Bed and board
• Bed and breakfast
• Bed bath
• Bed blocking
• Bed down
• Bed of roses
• Bed out
• Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Posey)
• Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Worthy)
• Black Jesus (Nickname of basketball player Amare Stoudemire)
• Blame game
• 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
• Cheat sheet
• Come to Jesus
• Cot death
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Creeping Jesus
• 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)
• Die in your own bed
• Different ball game
• Does it make sense to jump out of a warm bed into a cold cereal? (Quaker Oats advertising slogan)
• Dog in the manger
• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise
• End of the ball game
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Face like an unmade bed
• Fair game
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• 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
• Gentle Jesus, meek and mild
• Get into bed with
• Get out of the wrong side of the bed
• Give the game away
• Go to bed with
• Golden Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting a player who strikes out four times in a game)
• Got game
• Grand Theft Auto (video game title)
• Guessing game
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• I'm game
• 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
• Jesus H Christ
• Jesus Shuttlesworth (Nickname of Ray Allen)
• Jesus saves
• Jesus saves green shield stamps
• Jesus wept

• Late in the game
• Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Life is a bed of roses
• Lift your game
• 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)
• Lord Fred (Cockney rhyming slang for bed)
• Make your bed and lie in it
• Mario Kart (video game title)
• 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)
• Mug's game
• Must win game
• Never go to bed on an argument
• Night night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite
• Numbers game
• On the game
• Only A Pawn In Their Game (Bob Dylan song)
• Only game in town
• Platinum Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting striking out five times in a game)
• Play a waiting game
• Play the game
• Play the percentage game
• Primal Rage (film and video game)
• Purple Jesus (Nickname of Adrian Peterson)
• Put your game face on
• Raise your game
• Reds under the bed
• Scent to bed (French Connection United Kingdom advertising slogan)
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Shell game
• 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
• Sleep easy in your bed
• Sod this for a game of soldiers
• Sonic the Hedgehog (video game title)
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Super Mario Brothers (video game title)
• Take me out to the ball game
• Take to your bed
• Take up your bed and walk
• Talk a good game
• Test bed
• Thank you Jesus
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• The Basketball Jesus (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Dowager Queen of the Game Shows (Nickname of Pat Carroll)
• The Sims (video game title)
• The beautiful game
• The blame game
• The game is afoot
• The game is up
• The name game
• The name of the game
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
• Time for bed (A catchphrase from The Magic Roundabout)
• Trap and ball (children's ball game)
• Two can play at that game
• Uncle Ned (Cockney rhyming slang for bed)
• Up your game
• War game (a simulation of war intended as preparation)
• What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course (Marilyn Monroe quotation)
• What would Jesus do?
• What's your game?
• Who are you? (Nintendo Game Boy Advance advertising slogan)
• Whole new ball game
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)
• Would not get out of bed for
• You made your bed, now lie in it
• You make your bed, you sleep in it
• Zero sum game