Phrase thesaurus
Abruptly Phrases
136 phrases and expressions related to "abruptly".
Phrases
- A Short History Of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson book)
- A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian (Marina Lewycka book)
- A few bricks short of a full load
- A few cards short of a full deck
- All of a sudden
- Art is long and life is short
- As dead as a dodo
- As dead as a doornail
- As dead as mutton
- As thick as two short planks
- At the dead of night
- Back from the dead
- Better dead than red
- Better off dead
- Brain dead
- Bring out your dead
- Bring up short
- Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
- Caught by the short and curlies
- Caught short
- Chivalry is not dead
- Come up short
- Cut a long story short
- Cut out the dead wood
- Cut someone dead
- Day late and a dollar short
- Dead Man Walking (Helen Prejean book)
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)
- Dead Ringer For Love (Meatloaf song)
- Dead air
- Dead and buried
- Dead and gone
- Dead cat bounce
- Dead cinch
- Dead duck
- Dead easy
- Dead end
- Dead from the neck up
- Dead giveaway
- Dead heads
- Dead heat
- Dead in the water
- Dead issue
- Dead letter
- Dead loss
- Dead man walking
- Dead meat
- Dead men tell no tales
- Dead men's shoes
- Dead of night
- Dead of winter
- Dead on arrival
- Dead on time
- Dead presidents
- Dead reckoning
- Dead ringer
- Dead to rights
- Dead to the world
- Dead white European male (derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation)
- Dead white male
- Dead wood
- Dick and Jane is dead (Encyclopaedia Britannica advertising slogan)
- Domestos kills all known germs - Dead! (Domestos Bleach advertising slogan)
- Down among the dead men
- Drop dead
- Drop dead gorgeous
- Drop dead list
- Drop down dead
- Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
- Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
- Flogging a dead horse
- Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
- Given up for dead
- God is dead (philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche)
- Good and dead
- Hang by the neck until dead
- He's dead Jim (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
- I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
- I wouldn't be caught dead
- In short order
- In short supply
- In the short run
- Kicking dead whales down the beach
- Kill stone dead
- Kills bugs dead (Raid advertising slogan)
- Knock 'em dead
- Left for dead
- Let the dead bury the dead
- Life's too short
- Like being savaged by a dead sheep
- Loud enough to waken the dead
- Make short work of
- More dead than alive
- Nasty, brutish and short
- Never speak ill of the dead
- Numbered with the dead
- One brick short of a load
- Over my dead body
- Play dead
- Pull someone up short
- Raise the dead
- Roll over and play dead
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play by Tom Stoppard)
- Shit (or short) end of the stick
- Short Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
- Short Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
- Short Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
- Short and curlies
- Short and sweet
- Short arms, long pockets
- Short but sweet
- Short change
- Short end of the stick
- Short fuse
- Short list
- Short sharp shock
- Short shrift
- Short sighted
- Short stuff
- Sold short
- Suddenly Last Summer (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
- Take a long walk off a short pier
- Take a long walk off a short plank
- The Day of the Dead (Horror movie)
- The King is dead, long live the King
- The long and short of it
- The only good Indian is a dead Indian
- The short end of the stick
- To cut a long story short
- To make a long story short
- Two bricks short of a load
- Two sandwiches short of a picnic
- Wanted, dead or alive
- When a man you've never met before suddenly gives you flowers (Impulse deodorant advertising slogan)
- Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
- You're a long time dead