Fire Phrases

Phrases

• A big shot
• Add fuel to the flames
• Air shot
• All fired up and ready to go
• All guns blazing
• All hot and bothered
• Arouse suspicion
• As black as coal
• As hot as Hades
• As hot as blue blazes
• As useless as a chocolate fireguard
• At the end of a gun
• Ball of fire
• Baptism of fire
• Bernie, the bolt (A catchphrase from The Golden Shot)
• Big Shot Becky (Nickname of basketball player Becky Hammon)
• Big Shot Bob (Nickname of basketball player Robert Horry)
• Big shot
• Blaze a trail
• Blaze away at
• Blow hot and cold
• Bonfire Night
• Booster shot
• Breathe fire
• Burn After Reading (George Clooney movie)
• Burn a hole in your pocket
• Burn in hell
• Burn rubber
• Burn the candle at both ends
• Burn the midnight oil
• Burn up the track
• Burn with curiosity
• Burn your boats
• Burn your bra
• Burn your bridges
• Burn your fingers
• Burn yourself out
• Burned at the stake
• Burning Down The House (Talking Heads song)
• Burning issue
• Burnt to a ashes
• Burnt to a cinder
• Burnt to a crisp
• C'mon Colman's, light my fire (Colman's Mustard advertising slogan)
• Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (play by Tennesee Williams and Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Catch fire
• Chase the dragon
• Cheap shot
• Chew a gun
• Chinese burn
• Chinese fire drill
• Come On Baby Light My Fire (The Doors song)
• Come home to a real fire (Coal Board advertising slogan)
• Crash and burn
• Crazy Gun Barney (Nickname of Barney Fife (Don Knotts))
• Don't burn your bridges behind you
• Don't shoot the messenger
• Don't shoot the piano player
• Don't shoot until you can see the whites of their eyes
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• Dragon Slayer (Nickname of baseball player Josh Fogg)
• Draw someone's fire
• Drop It Like It's Hot (Snoop Dogg song)
• Drop it like a hot potato
• Energy to burn
• Feel the burn
• Fight fire with fire
• Fire And Rain (James Taylor song)
• Fire Sale
• Fire and brimstone
• Fire away
• Fire down below
• Fire engine red
• Fire in the hole
• Fire in your belly
• Fire storm
• Fire the imagination (inspire with enthusiasm)
• Fire up the Quattro (A catchphrase from Gene Glenister In Ashes To Ashes)
• Fired up
• Firing blanks
• Firing on all cylinders
• Flash in the pan
• Friendly fire
• Full of bull (talking hot air)
• Get into hot water
• Get on like a house on fire
• Get shot of
• Get the sack
• Give it the gun
• Give it your best shot
• Glow Little Glow-worm (children's nursery rhyme)
• Glow with health
• Go out in a blaze of glory
• Go through fire and water for
• Grate on the ear
• Great Balls Of Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis song)
• Gun down
• Hang fire
• Happiness Is A Warm Gun (The Beatles song)
• Harp puts out the fire (Harp Lager advertising slogan)
• Have a glow on
• Have a shot at
• Have gun, will travel (A catchphrase from TV series)
• Have many irons in the fire
• He shot through like a Bondi tram
• He smokes like a chimney
• Heap coals of fire on someone's head
• Hellfire and brimstone
• Hire and fire
• His Latest Flame (Elvis Presley song)
• Hit the sack
• Hold a gun to his head
• Horses sweat, men perspire, women merely glow
• Hot Lips Houlihan (Nickname of Major Margaret Houlihan (Loretta Swit))
• Hot Plate (Nickname of basketball player John Sam Williams)
• Hot Rod (Nickname of basketball player Rodney Hundley)
• Hot air
• Hot and bothered
• Hot and heavy
• Hot button issue
• Hot chocolate, drinking chocolate - the late, late drink (Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate advertising slogan)
• Hot desking
• Hot diggety dog
• Hot enough for you?
• Hot mess
• Hot money
• Hot n Cold (Katy Perry song)
• Hot off the press
• Hot on the trail
• Hot on your heels
• Hot potato
• Hot property
• Hot pursuit
• Hot shot
• Hot stuff
• Hot swap
• Hot tempered
• Hot ticket
• Hot tip
• Hot to trot
• Hot topic
• Hot under the collar

• I Shot The Sheriff (Eric Clapton song)
• I can see you standing over a hot stove, but I can't see the stove (Groucho Marx line)
• I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? (Beatles song lyric)
• If I tell you I will have to shoot you
• In hot water
• In the line of fire
• Indoor fireworks
• Is it hot in here or is it me? (Typically used by menopausal women having a hot flush)
• Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
• It Ain't Half Hot Mum (BBC comedy television series)
• Jump the gun
• Just shoot me
• Keep the home fires burning
• Le Sack (Nickname of Richard Tardits)
• Leave the gun, take the cannoli (line from The Godfather)
• Liar liar: pants on fire
• Light My Fire (The Doors song)
• Light a fire under him
• Light a fire under some
• Like a cat on a hot coals
• Like a cat on a hot tin roof
• Like a moth to a flame
• Like a pig from a gun
• Like a shot
• Like blazes
• Lipton's gets into more hot water than anything (Lipton Tea advertising slogan)
• Little Sure Shot (Nickname of Annie Oakley)
• Long shot
• Machine Gun Kelly (Nickname of George Kelly)
• Mail shot
• Money to burn
• Mother Superior jumped the gun (Beatles song lyric)
• Mr. Big Shot (Nickname of Chauncey Billups)
• Never fired in anger
• No manager ever got fired for buying IBM (IBM advertising slogan)
• Not by a long shot
• Only you can prevent forest fires (United States Forest Service advertising slogan)
• Open fire
• Out of the frying pan into the fire
• Parting shot
• Perfect shot
• Piping hot
• Piss like a fire engine
• Play with fire
• Pull the trigger
• Pull your chestnuts out of the fire
• Put a gun to your head
• Put out
• Redd Hot (Nickname of Michael Redd)
• Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash song)
• Rip mix burn (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Robo Sack (Nickname of Rob Johnson)
• Run toward the sound of gunfire
• Sack race
• Sack time
• Sad sack
• See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
• Selling like hot cakes
• Set Fire to the Rain (Adele song)
• Set the Thames on fire
• Set the world on fire
• Set your hair on fire
• Shit hot
• Shoot 'em up
• Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
• Shoot a fairy
• Shoot blanks
• Shoot down in flames (destroy an argument or theory)
• Shoot first, ask questions later
• Shoot from the hip
• Shoot him down in flames
• Shoot hoops
• Shoot it out
• Shoot me now
• Shoot on sight
• Shoot someone a line
• Shoot straight (to talk or deal honestly)
• Shoot the breeze
• Shoot the moon (remove household goods by night to avoid paying rent)
• Shoot the puppy
• Shoot through (to leave or abscond)
• Shoot to kill
• Shoot your cuffs
• Shoot your mouth off
• Shoot yourself in the foot
• Shot across the bows
• Shot in the arm
• Shot in the dark
• Shot to hell
• Shot while trying to escape
• Silver Blaze (Sherlock Holmes story)
• Slash and burn
• Slay the dragon
• Slow burn
• Smoke around the campfire
• Smoke like a chimney
• Smoking gun
• Smoking hot
• Some Like It Hot (Jack Lemmon / Tony Curtis / Marilyn Monroe movie)
• Son of a gun
• Sow Dragon's teeth
• Spread like wildfire
• Stop, or my mom will shoot (line from Sylvestor Stallone movie)
• Strike while the iron is hot
• Take a pot shot at
• The Bronze Goddess of Fire (Nickname of LaWanda Page)
• The Fast Gun From Texas (Nickname of Dan Troop (John Russell))
• The Gun That Won The West (Nickname of the Colt revolver)
• The Hoosier Hot Shot (Nickname of humourist Herb Shriner)
• The Hot Water State (Nickname of the US state of Arkansas)
• The Italian Dragon (Nickname of Joe Calzaghe)
• The Last of The Red Hot Mommas (Nickname of Sophie Tucker)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (James Stewart / John Wayne movie)
• The Man With The Golden Gun (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
• The Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash song)
• The cereal that's shot from guns! (Quaker Puffed Wheat advertising slogan)
• The dogs kids love to bite (Armour Hot Dogs advertising slogan)
• The fat is in the fire
• The long, hot summer
• The money shot
• The shot heard around the world
• There's no smoke without fire
• There's too much arson about here
• They Shoot Horses Don't They? (Jane Fonda movie)
• This Wheel's On Fire (Bob Dylan song)
• Throw Another Log On The Fire (Outlaws song)
• Too hot to handle
• Too many irons in the fire
• Turkey shoot
• Two irons in the fire
• Under fire
• Under the gun
• Up in smoke
• Visiting fireman
• We answer to a higher authority (Hebrew National hot dogs advertising slogan)
• Well, nobody's perfect (line from the movie Some Like It Hot)
• When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash
• Where there's smoke there's fire
• Where's the fire?
• You couldn't catch a monkey with a shotgun and a sack
• You'll get shot
• You're fired! (A catchphrase from The Apprentice)

Related

• Ball of fire
• Baptism of fire
• Breathe fire
• C'mon Colman's, light my fire (Colman's Mustard advertising slogan)
• Catch fire
• Chinese fire drill
• Come On Baby Light My Fire (The Doors song)
• Come home to a real fire (Coal Board advertising slogan)
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• Draw someone's fire
• Fight fire with fire
• Fire And Rain (James Taylor song)
• Fire Sale
• Fire and brimstone
• Fire away
• Fire down below
• Fire engine red
• Fire in the hole
• Fire in your belly
• Fire storm
• Fire the imagination (inspire with enthusiasm)
• Fire up the Quattro (A catchphrase from Gene Glenister In Ashes To Ashes)
• Friendly fire
• Get on like a house on fire
• Go through fire and water for
• Great Balls Of Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis song)
• Hang fire
• Harp puts out the fire (Harp Lager advertising slogan)
• Have many irons in the fire
• Heap coals of fire on someone's head
• Hire and fire
• I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? (Beatles song lyric)
• In the line of fire
• Liar liar: pants on fire
• Light My Fire (The Doors song)
• Light a fire under him
• Light a fire under some
• Open fire
• Out of the frying pan into the fire
• Piss like a fire engine
• Play with fire
• Pull your chestnuts out of the fire
• Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash song)
• Set Fire to the Rain (Adele song)
• Set the Thames on fire
• Set the world on fire
• Set your hair on fire
• The Bronze Goddess of Fire (Nickname of LaWanda Page)
• The Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash song)
• The fat is in the fire
• There's no smoke without fire
• This Wheel's On Fire (Bob Dylan song)
• Throw Another Log On The Fire (Outlaws song)
• Too many irons in the fire
• Two irons in the fire
• Under fire
• Where there's smoke there's fire
• Where's the fire?