Garter Phrases

Phrases

• Alexander's Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin song)
• And The Band Played On (Randy Shilts book)
• And the band played on
• As crooked as a dog's hind leg
• As full as a fat lady's sock
• Band of brothers
• Beat the band
• Below the belt
• Belt and braces
• Belt it out
• Belt up
• Break a leg
• Citizen band radio
• Click it or ticket (United States seat belt law advertising slogan)
• Cock a leg
• Cost an arm and a leg
• Deep Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid song)
• Ethnic stocking (the appointment to political office on the basis of ethnicity)
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Garage band
• Gastric band (A device surgically inserted around the stomach intended to reduce appetite)
• Get your leg over
• Give a leg up
• I'll have your guts for garters
• It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play (Beatles song lyric)
• Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg it
• Leg lamp
• Leg over

• Leg pull
• Leg up
• Long Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish (Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band song)
• One leg at a time (Dockers advertising slogan)
• Pay an arm and a leg
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Put a sock in it
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles album and song)
• Shake a leg
• Short Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Show a leg
• Show a little leg
• Smell the Glove (fictional album by the spoof heavy-metal band Spinal Tap)
• Sock it to me (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
• Sock puppet marketing
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Stocking filler
• Stocking stuffer
• Strike Up The Band (George Gershwin composition)
• Strike up the band
• The Adventure of the Speckled Band (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Bible Belt
• The Boys in the Band (play by Mart Crowley)
• The Final Countdown (song by the Swedish band Europe)
• Tighten your belt
• To beat the band
• Triumph has the bra for the way you are (Triumph Lingerie advertising slogan)
• Under your belt
• We few, we happy few, we band of brothers (from Henry V by Shakespeare)
• Without a leg to stand on
• You're pulling my leg