Duke Phrases

Phrases

• Absolute power corrupts absolutely (quotation by Lord Acton)
• After the Lord Mayor's parade
• As black as the Earl of Hell's waistcoat
• As drunk as a lord
• Belted earl
• Black Moses (Nickname of basketball player Baron Davis)
• Boom Dizzle (Nickname of basketball player Baron Davis)
• Count me in
• Count me out
• Count noses
• Count the calories
• Count the cost
• Count the pennies
• Count to ten
• Count your blessings
• Ditty Bop (Nickname of basketball player Baron Davis)
• Don't count your chickens before they are hatched
• Down for the count
• Duke it out
• Duke's mixture
• Earl the Pearl (Nickname of basketball player Earl Monroe)
• Earl the Squirrel (Nickname of basketball player Earl Boykins)
• Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs tune title)
• Head count
• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways (from a poem by Browning)
• How long, O Lord, how long?
• Keep count
• Let me count the ways
• Live like a lord
• Lord Clark of Civilisation (Nickname of Kenneth Clark)
• Lord Fred (Cockney rhyming slang for bed)
• Lord Haw-Haw (Nickname of William Joyce)
• Lord Of The Flies (William Golding book)

• Lord Of The Rings (J R R Tolkien book)
• Lord it over
• Lord love a duck
• Lose count
• Lucky Lucan (Nickname of The Earl of Lucan)
• Madman Muntz (Nickname of Earl William Muntz)
• My Sweet Lord (George Harrison song)
• My old Dutch (Cockney rhyming slang for duchess)
• My precious (The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers)
• Out for the count
• Peer pressure
• Phil The Greek (Nickname of Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh)
• Praise the lord and pass the ammunition
• Put up your dukes
• Red Baron (Nickname of Rick Sutcliffe)
• Seconds count
• Take The A Train (Duke Ellington tune)
• Take the count
• The Body Guard (Nickname of Baron Davis)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas book)
• The Duke (Pseudonym of Marion Michael Morrison a.k.a.John Wayne)
• The Frump Tower (Nickname of Camilla Duchess of Cornwall)
• The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Iron Duke (Nickname of Arthur Duke of Wellington)
• The Lord of the Idiots (Nickname of George Costanza (Jason Alexander))
• The Lord of the Rings (J R R Tolkien story and Peter Jackson movie)
• The Red Baron (Nickname of Baron Manfred von Richtofen)
• The Tyler Rose (Nickname of Earl Campbell)
• The favoured of the Lord
• The valley of the shadow of death (line from Psalm 23)
• Tobacco baron
• Too Easy (Nickname of Baron Davis)
• Why ask why? Try Bud Dry (Budweiser Earl advertising slogan)
• You can count on me