Category · 65 phrases
A list of phrases about language
Language - we use it all the time - here are the phrases we use when we talk about it…
- 34 Phrases that people often get wrong
- A backhanded compliment
- A blot on the landscape
- A picture is worth a thousand words
- A tissue of lies
- A word in your shell-like
- Acronyms
- Actions speak louder than words
- An open book
- Bale out/bail out
- Bang on about
- Bare with me
- Beg the question
- Belt up
- Can't be overestimated/Can't be underestimated - which one to use?
- Cat got your tongue?
- Chinese whispers
- Double Entendre
- Famous last words
- Fine words butter no parsnips
- Flannel
- Get a word in edgeways
- Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil
- Hem and haw
- Hippo birdie two ewes
- Homonyms
- Household words
- In a nutshell
- In the beginning was the Word
- Including, but not limited to
- It was a dark and stormy night
- Jot or tittle
- Long-winded
- Many a true word is spoken in jest
- Minced oath
- Mind your language
- Mind your Ps and Qs
- Mum's the word
- Nevertheless
- Okay
- Over and out
- Read between the lines
- Same here
- Silver tongued
- Spelling-bee
- Spoiler alert
- Talk a blue streak
- Talk through one's hat
- Tall story
- The many way to pronounce 'ough'
- To bandy words
- To begin with
- To cut a long story short
- To mince words
- Tongue in cheek
- Tour de force
- Tout de suite
- Turn of phrase
- Wax poetic
- Weasel words
- Word Association Football
- Word for word
- Words are but wind
- Words ending in gry
- You can say that again