Fish 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
• Alligator bait (a reference to the alleged practice of using black babies to lure alligators into traps)
• Angle for
• Are We Downhearted? No! No! No! (Ray Sherwood song)
• As fat as a beached whale
• As happy as a clam
• As long as your arm
• As slippery as an eel
• Bait and switch
• Beef and reef
• Below par
• Big fish eat little fish
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Bigger fish to fry
• Bleak House (Charles Dickens book)
• Boom Boom (Nickname of boxer Ray Mancini)
• Bottom feeder
• Built to scale
• Cast the net wide
• Catch as catch can
• Catch of the day
• Champagne wishes and caviar dreams (Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous sign-off)
• Cheap skate
• Clam up
• Click bait (an eye ctaching word or image on a website)
• Cock a snook
• Cold fish
• Cry stinking fish
• Cut bait
• Dab hand at
• Different kettle of fish
• Dolphin friendly
• Don't come the raw prawn
• Done up like a kipper
• Drink like a fish
• Dropped off the perch
• Drum n bass
• Economy of scale
• 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
• Fishing expedition
• Fishing for compliments
• Flirty fishing
• Georgia On My Mind (Ray Charles song)
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
• Gone fishing
• Got bigger fish to fry
• Green around the gills
• Hallelujah, I Love Her So (Ray Charles song)
• Hit The Road Jack (Ray Charles song)
• Holy mackerel
• Holy mackerel! (A catchphrase from Kingfish In Amos 'N' Andy Show)
• Hook line and sinker
• Hunky dory (1971 album by David Bowie)
• Hunt down
• I Can't Stop Loving You (Ray Charles song)
• I Got A Woman (Ray Charles song)
• In An Octopus's Garden In The Shade (The Beatles song)
• In The Bleak Midwinter (Christmas Carol title)
• Jack Sprat could eat no fat (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jack the Dripper (Nickname of Jackson Pollack)
• Jail bait
• Jesus Shuttlesworth (Nickname of Ray Allen)

• Jump the shark
• Killer Ray (Nickname of Ray Allen)
• 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)
• Loan shark
• Muscle bound
• Muscle in on
• Muscle man
• My Ding A Ling (Chuck Berry song)
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish (Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band song)
• Octopus's Garden (The Beatles song)
• Odd fish
• Off the scale
• Old trout
• On a grand scale
• On a par with
• Only the best for the Captain's table (Birdseye advertising slogan)
• Par excellence
• Par for the course
• Pink pantella puffer (slang term for a homosexual)
• Pretty kettle of fish
• Put some muscle into it
• Queer fish
• Ray Of Light (Madonna album)
• Ray of light
• Red herring
• Rise to the bait
• Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
• Save the whale
• Scale the dizzy heights
• School of fish
• Sea Bass (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
• Semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower (Beatles song lyric)
• Shark repellent
• Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
• Sleeping with the fishes
• Smack dab in the middle
• Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast (A catchphrase from Red Dwarf)
• So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
• Sprat to catch a mackerel
• Sugar Ray Robinson (Nickname of Walker Smith Jr.)
• Super Bass (Nicki Minaj song)
• Surf and turf
• Swim with sharks
• Take These Chains From My Heart (Ray Charles song)
• Take the bait
• That dog won't hunt
• The Big Tuna (Nickname of Bill Parcells)
• The Crab (Nickname of Ray Wilkins)
• The Flying Fisherman (Nickname of Roscoe Vernon Gaddis)
• The Great White Shark (Nickname of Greg Norman)
• The Little Mermaid (Disney cartoon movie)
• The Prince of Wails (Nickname of Johnny Ray)
• The Rain Man (Nickname of Ray Allen)
• The Shark (Nickname of Jeff Samardzija)
• The halibut capital of the world (Nickname of Homer Alaska)
• The piece of cod that passeth all understanding
• The thrill of the hunt
• The world is your oyster
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• Throw another shrimp on the barbie (Australian Tourist Commission advertising slogan)
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• Trout pout
• Up to par
• Wet fish
• Whale of a time
• What does that have to do with the price of fish?
• Whipper snapper
• Witch hunt

Related

• 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
• Big fish eat little fish
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Bigger fish to fry
• Cold fish
• Cry stinking fish
• Different kettle of fish
• 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
• 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)
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Odd fish
• Pretty kettle of fish
• Queer fish
• School of fish
• So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
• 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?