Archery phrases

[pHz]

wide of the mark ?

slainte rob

[Old Bloke]

*There's one in the eye* for.......

[Snarkhunter]

How about:

Straight as an arrow

[Old Bloke]

A saying which is often heard in an archery shop, issued by an attentive member of staff and which is often thought of by prospective purchasers.
It is *Pull the other one*.

[english_archer]

How about pass the cake ?

[komtox]

Gadding about, gadding = the term for eratic arrow flight..

[yawazz]

"never cast a clout till may is out". had never heard this saying until last may when two ppl (not archers) said it to me,both within two days off each other and about 50 miles apart. Not until the second person said it to me did it dawn on me what it meant. They both said this phrase in response to how windy it was. Cast = flight of the arrow ...... Clout = the round we shoot at (180yds).

[Snarkhunter]

Originally Posted by yawazz

"never cast a clout till may is out". had never heard this saying until last may when two ppl (not archers) said it to me,both within two days off each other and about 50 miles apart. Not until the second person said it to me did it dawn on me what it meant. They both said this phrase in response to how windy it was. Cast = flight of the arrow ...... Clout = the round we shoot at (180yds).

Sorry Yawazz, but the "clout" in this expression is an archaic term for cloth or a piece of clothing. Basically it means "Wrap up warm until June" - also an archaic concept given global warming!

[King Custard]

'Matched up'
'Nocked up'
'Screwed up'
'taken down'

refering to my arrows not my lovelife- oh hang on, yeh - both.

Archery origin:
Got new shafts...fletched and nocked....too weak....ran arrowsaw thorough wrong place...learned something but it cost me....more careful in what I do with my equipment nowdays.
nuff said

[GreenSteve]

How about "#### Up"
refering to an archer loosing with the #### Feather up and a bad shot.