Fillet Phrases

Phrases

• A Fish Called Wanda (John Cleese movie)
• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
• All is fish that comes to the net
• Bag of bones
• Big fish eat little fish
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Bigger fish to fry
• Bust a gut
• Cold fish
• Cry stinking fish
• Different kettle of fish
• Drink like a fish
• Feel it in your bones
• 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
• Gut bucket
• Gut feeling
• Gut instinct

• Gut reaction
• Gut wrenching panic
• I'm a doctor, not a (A catchphrase from Leonard 'Bones' Mccoy In Star Trek)
• Jump someone's bones
• Lazy bones
• 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)
• Make no bones about
• Make old bones
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Odd fish
• Pick the bones out of that
• Pretty kettle of fish
• Put flesh on your bones
• Queer fish
• Rattle them bones
• School of fish
• So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
• Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
• The bare bones
• 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)
• Wet fish
• What does that have to do with the price of fish?