Guts Phrases

Phrases

• A marvellous bird is the pelican, its beak holds more than its belly can
• Andrews for Inner Cleanliness (Andrews Liver Salts advertising slogan)
• Beer belly
• Belly buster
• Belly flop
• Belly laugh
• Belly up
• Belly up to the bar
• Blood and guts
• British Steel, British mettle (British Steel advertising slogan)
• Bust a gut
• Chopped liver
• Delhi belly
• Discretion is the better part of valour
• Fire in your belly
• Go belly up
• Greedy guts
• Gut bucket
• Gut feeling
• Gut instinct
• Gut reaction
• Gut wrenching panic
• I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti (The Silence of the Lambs)
• I'll have your guts for garters
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Landed belly up
• Lose your nerve
• Lower than a snake's belly
• Nerve centre
• No guts no glory
• No guts, no glory
• Scream your guts out
• Spew your guts
• Spill your guts
• Strain every nerve
• The Liver Birds (BBC comedy television series)
• Touched a nerve
• What a nerve
• What am I chopped liver?
• Yellow belly (slang term for a coward)