Dowel Phrases

Phrases

• Accept a wooden nickel
• Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall (Spike Milligan book)
• All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (Spike Jones song)
• All men are cremated equal (Spike Milligan line)
• As bright as a new pin
• As neat as a new pin
• Chip and pin
• Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard (Spike Milligan line)
• Contraceptives should be used on all conceivable occasions (Spike Milligan line)
• Does a wooden horse have a hickory dick?
• Hard to pin down
• I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (Spike Jones song)
• I told you I was ill (Spike Milligan line inscribed on his gravestone)
• King pin
• Off the peg
• Peg out
• Pin money
• Pin the tail on the donkey
• Pin your ears back
• Pin your hopes on
• Pull the pin
• Put on the wooden overcoat
• See a pin and pick it up
• See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day
• Square peg in a round hole
• Take down a peg or two
• The Peg (Nickname of Winnipeg Manitoba)
• The first network for men (Spike TV advertising slogan)
• There's a lot of it about (A catchphrase from Spike Milligan)
• Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire
• Win the wooden spoon
• Wooden Heart (Elvis Presley song)
• You could have heard a pin drop