Phrases

A | B | C | D | F | G | H | I–K | L | M | N | O | P–Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y

A

  • above and beyond the call of duty — a dove and beyond the call of beauty
  • all manner of different schemes — all scanner of different memes
  • all of the factors — fall of the actors
  • appearances can be deceptive — adherences can be perceptive
 

B

  • bad loser — lad, boozer
  • bloody mess — muddy bless
  • born dreamer — drawn beamer
  • burning my ears — earning my beers
  • but as it turns out — tut, as it burns out
 

C

  • cake face — fake case
  • can you sink any lower? — can you link any sower?
  • clamp down — damp clown
  • clear as day — dear as clay
  • cock sure — shock cure
  • come with me — mum with key
  • could be worse — would-be curse
  • cozy little nook — nosy little cook
  • crushing blow — blushing crow
  • cunning plan — punning clan
 

D

  • damn shame — sham dame
  • darkest before the dawn — dorkest before the darn
  • diddly squat — squiddly dot
  • doesn't take away from the fact — doesn't fake away from the tact
  • doing the dirty work — wooing the dirty Dirk
  • don't blame the messenger — don't maim the blessinger
  • don't look back in anger — don't book lack, in anger
  • don't take a fall — don't fake at all
  • doubting Thomas — touting dumb-ass
  • duly noted — newly doted
 

F

  • fearing the nigh — nearing the fight
  • fight to the bitter end — bite to the fitter end
  • first thing you need — nursed thing you feed
  • flogging a dead horse — dogging a fled horse
  • fuel on the fire — file on the fewer
  • fully aware — wooly affair
 

G

  • gentle lamb — lentil jam
  • glass hammer — has glamour
  • goes against the grain — grows against the gain
  • goes like the clappers — close like the gappers
  • go nuts — no guts
  • go with the flow — foe with the glow
  • great to meet you — mate to greet you
  • grew dramatically — drew, grammatically
  • growing need — knowing greed
 

H

  • dashed hopes — hashed dopes
  • handy and eyecatching — candy and eye hatching
  • have the flags hung out — have the hags flung out
  • here's the exciting part — peers the exciting heart
  • hints and tips — tints and hips
  • honey bunch — bunny hunch
 

I–K

  • in courtesy — insert a key
  • in plain sight — insane plight
  • is this quite near to you? — is this night queer to you?
  • just my opinion — just pie a minion
  • keeping with the plan — peeping with the clan
  • keep it under your hat — heap it under your cat
 

L

  • left in the dark — deft in the lark
  • left in the dust — deft in the lust
  • left to your own devices — deaf to your only vices
  • less is more — mess is law
  • let sleeping dogs lie — let sleeping logs die
  • letting your guard down — getting your lard down
  • line of sight — sign of light
  • live by the sword…die by the sword — live, sigh the bored…die, sigh the bored
  • losing attitude — oozing latitude
  • lost cause — cost laws
  • low and sleek — slow and leak
  • low slung — slow lung
  • lucky me — mucky Lee
  • lucky you — yucky loo
 

M

  • main plan of action — plain man of action
  • make no bones about it — bake no moans about it
  • a massive push — a passive mush
  • may as well — weigh a smell
  • maybe a bad idea — baby, a mad idea
  • mighty nice — nighty mice
  • more tasks — tour masks
  • mumble and stutter — stumble and mutter
  • my tongue got tangled — my tang got toungled (*Bill Thieben - Beaver Valley High School
 

N

  • narrow and tight — tarot and night
  • never fear the worst — never, we're the first
  • no fun without you — yo!…fun without new
  • no harm, no foul — no farm, no howl
  • nooks and crannies — crooks and nannies
  • no stone unturned — no sturn untoned; no turn unstoned
  • no turning back — toe burning knack
  • no way — woah…nay!
  • now here comes the last of it — cow here numbs the last of it
  • now I lay me down to sleep — now I slay me down to leap
  • nun's and poodles — pun's and noodles
 

O

  • oh, that's incredible! — crow that's inedible
  • one of the first kind — fun of the worst kind
  • one of these days — done of these ways
  • one thing we've found — fun thing we've wound
 

P–Q

  • pack of lies — lack of pies
  • past caring — cast paring
  • pick and choose — chicken poo's
  • prudent reserves — rudent preserves
  • quite tricky — trite quickie
 

R

  • reach them in time — teach them in rhyme
  • reinvent the wheel — we invent the 'real'
  • right in your face — fight in your race
  • rise to the test — ties to the rest
  • rough time — tough rhyme
 

S

  • seemed like a bad idea — beamed like a sad idea
  • send them into a spin — spend them into a sin
  • share your thoughts — their your shorts
  • shocked and stunned — stocked and shunned
  • shoot from the hip — hoot from the ship
  • signifies deduction — dignifies seduction
  • simply put, I don't like it — pimply soot, I don't like it
  • sons of toil — tons of soil
  • spreading your wings — wedding your springs
  • standing on the brink — branding on the stink
  • stranger days — danger strays
  • stumble and fall — fumble and stall
  • suits my needs — seats my nudes
 

T

  • take by surprise — bake Thai surprise
  • taking shape — shaking tape
  • thank goodness it's Friday — frank goodness, it's thigh day
  • that sort of thing — that thought of sing
  • there we will have to leave it — lair: we will have to thieve it
  • the whole ball of wax — the whole wall of backs
  • tight whack — white tack
  • tone it down — doughnut town
  • trail of dust — dale of trust
  • trial by fire — file by trier
  • trick of the light — lick of the trite
 

U

  • unrepeatable — pun (re-eatable)
  • a usual mess — amuse you all…yes (well, hopefully a little)
 

W

  • walking tall — talking wall
  • we're scrapping it — square wrapping it
  • what's the big deal? — dot's the big wheel
  • with good stuff — withstood guff
 

Y

  • you can't buy my trust — you can't try my bust
  • you'd only be in the way — you'd only wee in the bay