Gale Phrases

Phrases

• After a storm comes a calm
• After all, tomorrow is another day (Gone With the Wind)
• Any port in a storm
• Any way the wind blows
• Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni movie)
• Blow a fuse
• Blow a gasket
• Blow a kiss
• Blow a raspberry (Cockney rhyming slang for fart)
• Blow away the cobwebs
• Blow by blow account
• Blow chunks
• Blow great guns
• Blow hard
• Blow hot and cold
• Blow in
• Blow it out your arse
• Blow it out your ear
• Blow job
• Blow my skirt up
• Blow off
• Blow off steam
• Blow off the stage
• Blow out of the water
• Blow smoke up your ass
• Blow some my way (Chesterfield Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Blow someone away
• Blow the gaff
• Blow the lid off
• Blow the whistle
• Blow through
• Blow to smithereens
• Blow up
• Blow winds, and crack your cheeks
• Blow with the wind
• Blow your brains out
• Blow your cover
• Blow your mind
• Blow your nose
• Blow your own horn
• Blow your own trumpet
• Blow your stack
• Blow your top
• Blow your wad
• Blowin' In The Wind (Bob Dylan song)
• Body blow
• Break wind
• Breath of wind
• By the hairs on my chinny chin chin, I'll blow your house down
• Calm before the storm
• Candle In The Wind (Elton John song)
• Come wind come weather
• Cook up a storm
• Create a storm (Monsoon advertising slogan)
• Cushion the blow
• Eye of the storm
• Fire storm
• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn (Gone With the Wind)
• Full fathom five thy father lies (from The Tempest by Shakespeare)
• Gales of laughter
• Get wind of
• Glancing blow
• Go down a storm
• Go like the wind

• Gone With The Wind (Clark Gable / Vivien Leigh movie)
• Got the wind up
• Head wind
• Idiot Wind (Bob Dylan song)
• In Flanders fields the poppies blow (from a poem by McCrae)
• In the teeth of a gale
• It was a dark and stormy night
• It will blow over
• It's an ill wind that blows no one any good
• Joe Blow
• Just put your lips together and blow (To Have And Have Not)
• Knock the wind out of
• Like a candle in the wind
• Like the wind
• Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
• Low blow
• Not the ill wind which blows no man to good
• Perfect storm
• Pissing in the wind
• Put the wind up
• Quiet before the storm
• Raise the wind
• Ride like the wind
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Run like the wind
• Sail close to the wind
• Second wind
• Soften the blow
• Storm in a teacup
• Storm of controversy
• Stormy weather
• Summer Wind (Frank Sinatra song)
• Swing in the wind
• Take cuts at someone (A baseball expression meaning taking a verbal swing or striking a blow at a reputation)
• Take the town by storm
• Take the wind out of my sails
• Tempest in a teapot
• Texas Tornado (Nickname of T.J.Ford)
• The Kansas Comet (Nickname of Gale Sayers)
• The Lady of The Lamp (Nickname of Florence Nightingale)
• The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Swedish Nightingale (Nickname of Jenny Lind)
• The Texas Tornado (Nickname of Sam Baugh)
• The Wind in the Willows (children's book by Kenneth Grahame)
• The answer my friend is blowing in the wind (Bob Dylan song lyric)
• The wind of change is blowing through this continent
• There's a storm brewing
• They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind
• Three sheets to the wind
• Throw caution to the wind
• Tornado Alley
• Twist in the wind
• Visa's Delta blow to cheques (Visa Delta Debit Card advertising slogan)
• Weather the storm
• Well blow me down
• Wind at your back
• Wind dummy
• Wind farm
• Wind of Change (Scorpions song)
• Wind someone up (deliberately draw attention to something that will create agitation)
• Wind up
• Wind up in
• Wind your neck in
• You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows
• You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! (line from the Michael Caine movie The Italian Job)