Fairground Phrases

Phrases

• Ahead of the game
• All the fun of the fair
• All your base are belong to us (broken English phrase used in the video game Zero Wing)
• All's fair in love and war
• Along for the ride
• America's Oldest Living Teenager (Nickname of game show host Dick Clark)
• Anyone's game
• As game as Ned Kelly
• As solid as the ground we walk on
• Barnet Fair (Cockney rhyming slang for hair)
• Beaten at your own game
• Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Posey)
• Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Worthy)
• Blame game
• Brand new ballgame (A baseball expression meaning when a team that has been behind ties up the game)
• Break new ground
• Bring your A game (perform to your best ability)
• Buckle your seat belts it's going to be a bumpy ride
• Built from the ground up
• Bumpy ride
• By fair means or foul
• Call of Duty (video game title)
• Cat and mouse game
• Common ground
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Cut the ground from under your feet
• Dark And Bloody Ground (Nickname of the US state of Kentucky)
• 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)
• Different ball game
• Doesn't know his arse from a hole in the ground
• Down to the ground
• End of the ball game
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Faint heart never won fair lady
• Fair Trade
• Fair and Balanced (FOX News advertising slogan)
• Fair and aboveboard
• Fair and square
• Fair crack of the whip
• Fair dinkum
• Fair do's
• Fair enough
• Fair exchange is no robbery
• Fair game
• Fair go
• Fair market value (a reasonable price for an article for sale)
• Fair play
• Fair play to you
• Fair sex
• Fair shake
• Fair to middling
• Fair to midland
• Fall on stony ground
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• For fair
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Gain ground
• 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
• Get in on the ground floor
• Get off the ground
• Give the game away
• Go along for the ride
• Go to ground
• Golden Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting a player who strikes out four times in a game)
• Got game
• Grand Theft Auto (video game title)
• Ground Hog Day (Nickname of basketball player Tim Duncan)
• Ground ball (A baseball expression meaning a prosaic or ordinary accomplishment)
• Ground zero
• Guessing game
• Happy hunting ground
• Hit the ground running
• I'm game
• If wishes were horses beggars would ride
• If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus
• In on the ground floor
• It's a fair cop
• 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
• Keep your ear to the ground
• Keep your feet on the ground
• Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars (A catchphrase from Casey Kasem In America's Top 40)
• Late in the game
• Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)

• Let it ride
• 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)
• Lose ground on
• Magic carpet ride
• 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
• My Fair Lady (Lerner and Loewe musical)
• Neutral ground
• No fair!
• Numbers game
• On dangerous ground
• On the game
• Only A Pawn In Their Game (Bob Dylan song)
• Only game in town
• Only the brave deserve the fair and the fair deserve JAEGER (Jaeger Sportswear advertising slogan)
• Park and ride
• Pimp my ride
• Platinum Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting striking out five times in a game)
• Play a waiting game
• Play the game
• Play the percentage game
• Political high ground
• Prepare the ground
• Primal Rage (film and video game)
• Put your game face on
• Raise your game
• Raze to the ground
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• Ride a wave
• Ride high
• Ride like the wind
• Ride off into the sunset
• Ride roughshod over
• Ride shotgun
• Ride the clutch
• Ride the goat
• Ride the light (Qwest advertising slogan)
• Ride the rails
• Ride your luck
• Roll up, roll up, all the fun of the fair
• Rough ride
• Run to ground
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• She's got a ticket to ride but she don't care (Beatles song lyric)
• 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)
• Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair (line from nursery rhyme)
• Skin in the game
• So fast your feet won't touch the ground
• Sod this for a game of soldiers
• Sonic the Hedgehog (video game title)
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Stamping ground
• Suits you down to the ground
• Super Mario Brothers (video game title)
• Take me out to the ball game
• Taken for a ride
• Talk a good game
• Ten summersets he'll undertake on solid ground (Beatles song lyric)
• That and a nickel will get you a ride on the subway
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• The Dowager Queen of the Game Shows (Nickname of Pat Carroll)
• The Fair City (Nickname of Dublin Ireland)
• The Sims (video game title)
• The beautiful game
• The blame game
• The game is afoot
• The game is up
• The moral high ground
• The name game
• The name of the game
• Thin on the ground
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
• Thumb a ride
• Ticket To Ride (Beatles song)
• Trap and ball (children's ball game)
• Two can play at that game
• Up your game
• Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray book)
• War game (a simulation of war intended as preparation)
• What's your game?
• White knuckle ride
• Who are you? (Nintendo Game Boy Advance advertising slogan)
• Whole new ball game
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)
• Work yourself into the ground
• World's Fair
• You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground
• Zero sum game