Furlong Phrases

Phrases

• A miss is as good as a mile
• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• Egg and spoon race
• Give him an inch and he'll take a mile
• Go the extra mile
• I could see you a mile off
• I'd walk a mile for a Camel (Camel Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Let me not judge anyone until I have walked a mile in his moccasins
• Nautical mile
• Piss like a race horse
• Play the race card
• Race against the clock
• Race against time
• Race for the taste, the honey sweet taste!, the honey-nutty taste of Honey Nut Cheerios (Cheerios Cereals advertising slogan)
• Race proven performance (Kumho Tires advertising slogan)
• Race to the bottom
• Rat race
• Sack race
• Stands out a mile
• The Amazing Race (US TV show)
• The Master Race
• The Royal Mile (tourist attraction in Edinburgh Scotland)
• The Square Mile (Nickname of The City of London)
• The human race
• The mile high club
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile (line from nursery rhyme)
• Three Mile Lyle (Nickname of Lyle Alzado)
• Walk a mile in my shoes
• Win by a mile