Ache Phrases

Phrases

• A face as long as a fiddle
• A week is a long time in politics
• A world of pain
• Agony aunt
• Agony column
• Agony uncle
• All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt (Charles M. Schulz quotation)
• An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
• Art is long and life is short
• As Long As He Needs Me (Shirley Bassey song)
• As broad as it is long
• As honest as the day is long
• As long as a month of Sundays
• As long as your arm
• As merry as the day is long
• As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
• As true as the day is long
• At long last
• Cast a long shadow
• Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! (line from the movie 25th Hour)
• City Linking, smart thinking (City Link advertising slogan)
• Cut a long story short
• Do You Really Want to Hurt Me (Culture Club song)
• Don't cry before you're hurt
• Doubled up in pain
• Drown the pain
• Every picture tells a story (Doanes Backache Kidney Pills advertising slogan)
• Feeling no pain
• Fight tooth and nail
• Forever is a long time
• God's acre
• Hanker after
• He Hate Me (Nickname of American football player Rod Smart)
• He doesn't suffer fools gladly
• He who sups with the Devil should use a long spoon
• Heart throb
• Hell's half acre
• How long is a piece of string?
• How long, O Lord, how long?
• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?
• Hurt feelings
• Hurt pride
• I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me! (A catchphrase from Stuart Smiley In Saturday Night Live)
• If you keep late hours for Society's sake, Bromo-Seltzer will cure that headache (Bromo-Seltzer advertising slogan)
• In the long run
• It Won't Be Long (The Beatles song)
• It's Smart to be Square (British Satellite Broadcasting advertising slogan)
• It's a Heartache (Bonnie Tyler song)
• It's a long way to Tipperary
• It's all fun and games until somebody gets hurt
• Kick it into the long grass
• Kicked into the long grass
• Live long and prosper (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• Long Bob (Nickname of Robert Meusel)
• Long Day's Journey into Night (play by Eugene O'Neil)
• Long Haired Lover From Liverpool (Jimmy Osmond song)
• Long Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Stop (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Tall Sally (Little Richard song)
• Long division
• Long drawn out
• Long face
• Long faced
• Long in the tooth
• Long long ago
• Long lost
• Long odds
• Long shot
• Long sighted
• Long suffering
• Long time no see
• Man In The Long Black Coat (Bob Dylan song)
• Missed it by that much! (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• My dogs are barking
• Nature, red in tooth and claw
• No pain, no gain
• Not by a long chalk
• Not by a long shot
• Not long for this world
• Oh, Max! (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• Old Aches and Pains (Nickname of Luke Appling)
• On pain of death
• One smart cookie
• Pain barrier
• Pain in the arse
• Pain in the bum
• Pain in the butt
• Pain in the neck
• Pile on the agony
• Pine away
• Prolong the agony
• Put it on the long finger
• Put the hurt on
• Quick smart
• Short arms, long pockets
• Smart Alec
• Smart arse
• Smart dust
• Smart money
• So long
• So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
• Soft, strong and very long (Andrex toilet tissue advertising slogan)
• Sorry about that, Chief. (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• Splitting headache
• Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
• Street smart
• Suffer the little children
• Sweet tooth
• Take a long walk off a short pier
• Take a long walk off a short plank
• Tense nervous headache
• That's the second biggest ... I've ever seen! (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• The Agony and The Ecstasy (Charlton Heston movie)
• The Big Hurt (Nickname of Frank Thomas)
• The Elephant Man (John Hurt / Anthony Hopkins / David Lynch movie)
• The King is dead, long live the King
• The Long And Winding Road (The Beatles song)
• The Prince of Pain (Nickname of comedian Richard Lewis)
• The long and short of it
• The long and winding road that leads to your door (Beatles song lyric)
• The long arm of the law
• The long, hot summer
• To cut a long story short
• To make a long story short
• Tooth and nail
• Twas the night before Christmas - the children were dreaming of a Ford in their future - smart, swanky and gleaming (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Wear the pine overcoat
• What you don't know can't hurt you
• Would you believe ... (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• You can have any colour as long as it's black
• You only hurt the one you love
• You're a long time dead
• You've come a long way, baby (Virginia Slims Cigarettes advertising slogan)