Eel Phrases

Phrases

• A Fish Called Wanda (John Cleese movie)
• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
• Achilles' heel
• All is fish that comes to the net
• As slippery as an eel
• Big fish eat little fish
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Bigger fish to fry
• Brought to heel
• Cold fish
• Cry stinking fish
• Different kettle of fish
• Down at heel
• 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 bigger fish to fry
• High heel sneakers
• Jake the Snake (Nickname of Jake Plummer)

• 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)
• Lower than a snake's belly
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Odd fish
• Pretty kettle of fish
• Queer fish
• School of fish
• Slippery When Wet (Bon Jovi album)
• Slippery customer
• Slippery slope
• Slippery when wet
• Snake eyes
• Snake in the grass
• So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
• The Snake (Nickname of Jake Plummer)
• The Snake (Nickname of Ken Stabler)
• The Snake (Nickname of Youri Djorkaeff)
• 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)
• Turn on your heel
• Under the heel of
• Walk to heel
• Wet fish
• What does that have to do with the price of fish?