Dab Phrases

Phrases

• A Fish Called Wanda (John Cleese movie)
• A lick of paint
• A little dab'll do ya (Brylcreem advertising slogan)
• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
• All is fish that comes to the net
• As boring as watching paint dry
• Big fish eat little fish
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Bigger fish to fry
• Black spot
• Blind spot
• Cold fish
• Covers the earth (Sherwin Williams paint advertising slogan)
• Cry stinking fish
• Dab hand at
• Different kettle of fish
• Do I have to paint you a picture?
• Drink like a fish
• Fish always rot from the head downwards
• Fish and finger pie (Beatles song lyric)
• Fish and guests smell after three days
• Fish it out
• Fish or cut bait
• Fish out
• Fish out of water
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
• Got a soft spot for
• Got bigger fish to fry
• Have a soft spot for
• Hit the spot
• In a spot
• In a tight spot

• Johnny on the spot
• Like a fish out of water
• Like shooting fish in a barrel
• Little fish in a big pond (someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers)
• Man on the spot
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Odd fish
• On the spot
• Paint It Black (Rolling Stones song)
• Paint Your Wagon (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Paint the town red
• Paint yourself into a corner
• Pepsi Cola hits the spot (Pepsi advertising slogan)
• Pretty kettle of fish
• Queer fish
• School of fish
• Show me the spot (Abraham Lincoln quotation)
• Smack dab in the middle
• So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
• Spot on
• Spot the ball
• Spot the difference
• Sweet spot
• The perfect spot
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
• War paint
• Wet fish
• What does that have to do with the price of fish?
• When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob Dylan song)
• X marks the spot