Flea Phrases

Phrases

• A bite to eat
• A cat may look at a king
• A hazelnut in every bite (Topic advertising slogan)
• Alley cat (slang term for a prostitute)
• As cute as a bug's ear
• As full as an Alabama tick
• As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
• As snug as a bug in a rug
• As tight as a tick
• Barking dogs seldom bite
• Barq's has bite (Barq's root beer advertising slogan)
• Bell the cat
• Big Cat (Nickname of American football player Leon Lett)
• Big Cat (Nickname of baseball player Andres Galarraga)
• Big Cat (Nickname of boxer Cleveland Williams)
• Big fleas have little fleas
• Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it
• Bite back
• Bite me
• Bite off more than you can chew
• Bite someone's head off
• Bite the big one
• Bite the bullet
• Bite the dust
• Bite to eat
• Bite your hand off
• Bite your lip
• Bite your nails
• Bite your tongue
• Bitten by the bug
• Bug off
• Bug out
• Cat Balou (Jane Fonda movie)
• Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (play by Tennesee Williams and Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Cat and mouse game
• Cat call
• Cat got your tongue?
• Cat has nine lives
• Cat in Hell's chance
• Cat person
• Cat scratch fever
• Cat's Cradle
• Cool cat
• Curiosity killed the cat
• Dead cat bounce
• Don't bite the hand that feeds you
• Eight out of ten cats prefer it (Whiskas Cat Food advertising slogan)
• Enough to make a cat laugh
• Fight like cat and dog
• Flea pit
• Grab a bite to eat
• Have a bite to eat
• Hell cat

• Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle (line from nursery rhyme)
• His bark is worse than his bite
• I tawt I taw a puddy cat (A catchphrase from Sylvester the Cat)
• If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas
• It's not a bug, it's a feature
• June bug
• Let the cat out of the bag
• Lie down with dogs: get up with fleas
• Like a cat on a hot coals
• Like a cat on a hot tin roof
• Like something the cat dragged in
• Look what the cat dragged in
• Love bite
• Love bug
• Millennium bug
• Night night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite
• Nit picking
• No room to swing a cat
• Nothing else is Arthur's good (Arthur's Cat Food advertising slogan)
• Purr like a cat
• Put the bite on someone
• Put the cat amongst the pigeons
• Scaredy cat
• Second bite of the cherry
• See which way the cat jumps
• Seven year itch
• Smiling like a Cheshire cat
• Sound bite
• Take a bite out of crime
• Take a bite out of crime! (National Crime Prevention Council advertising slogan)
• Take a bite out of something
• Tastes so good cats ask for it by name (Meow Mix Cat food advertising slogan)
• That cat won't jump
• The Big Cat (Nickname of Jamaal Magloire)
• The Cat (Nickname of Cuttino Mobley)
• The cat sat on the mat
• The cat that swallowed the canary
• The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner (9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan)
• The cat who got the cream
• The cat's meow
• The cat's pyjamas
• The cat's whiskers
• The dogs kids love to bite (Armour Hot Dogs advertising slogan)
• There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream
• There's more than one way to skin a cat
• Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas
• Tick all the right boxes
• Tick box
• Tick follows tock follows tick follows tock (Guinness advertising slogan)
• Tim Bug (Nickname of Tim Hardaway)
• When the cat's away the mice will play
• Who's she, the cat's mother?
• Widow's mite
• You get a big delight in every bite of Hostess snacks (Hostess advertising slogan)