Acquaintance Phrases

Phrases

• A boy's best friend is his mother (Psycho)
• A dog is a man's best friend
• A friend in need is a friend indeed
• A girl's best friend
• Access - your flexible friend (Access Credit Card advertising slogan)
• Acquaint yourself with the facts
• Beat someone black and blue
• Best friend
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Bite someone's head off
• Bleed someone dry
• Bleed someone white
• Blow someone away
• Bonus genius (a good spirit accompanying and supporting someone)
• Bore the pants off someone
• Bump into someone
• Bust someone's ass
• Buttonhole someone
• Chew someone's ass
• Childhood friend
• Come down on someone like a ton of bricks

• Contact sport
• Cut someone dead
• Cut someone down in their prime
• Cut someone down to size
• Dance on someone's grave
• Dance to someone's tune
• Dead white European male (derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation)
• Diamonds are a girl's best friend
• Did Somebody Say McDonald's? (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Draw someone's fire
• Drive someone into a corner
• Drop someone off
• Dump on someone
• Eat out of someone's hand
• Eat someone alive
• Even your best friend won't tell you (Lifebuoy Soap advertising slogan)
• Eye someone up and down
• Fair-weather friend
• Familiarity breeds contempt
• Feel someone up
• Feel someone's collar

• First contact
• Flip someone the bird
• Freeze someone out
• Friend of Dorothy (slang term for a homosexual, referring to Judy Garland's character in The Wizard of Oz)
• Friend or foe?
• Friend zone
• Gentleman friend
• Get into someone's pants
• Get no change out of someone
• Give someone a bell
• Give someone a bloody nose
• Give someone a boost
• Give someone a good talking to
• Give someone a rocket
• Give someone a thick ear
• Give someone a wide berth
• Give someone an earful
• Give someone hell
• Give someone skin
• Give someone the boot
• Give someone the brush-off

• Give someone the mushroom treatment
• Give someone the slip
• Give someone the willys
• Give someone what for
• Gotta Serve Somebody (Bob Dylan song)
• Grass someone up
• Have someone on toast
• Have someone's ear
• Hazy information
• Heap coals of fire on someone's head
• Hear someone out
• Hello, I'm Julian and this is my friend Sandy (A catchphrase from Round the Horne)
• High roller (someone who gambles for high stakes)
• Hit the bricks (a cursory slang term telling someone to leave)
• I Want Somebody To Love (The Beatles song)
• I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright (The Beatles song lyric)
• I'm Julian and this is my friend Sandy (A catchphrase from Julian And Sandy in Round The Horne)
• If I had to do the same again, I would my friend Fernando (ABBA lyric)
• If you want to impress someone, put him on your Black list (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• If your friend jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?
• Imaginary friend

• In someone's bad books
• Inside information
• Invite someone over
• It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it (A catchphrase from Nick Stone In Tightrope)
• It's all fun and games until somebody gets hurt
• It's complicated (Facebook relationship status)
• Jog someone's elbow
• Jump someone's bones
• Keep someone sweet
• Klunk! Klick, every trip (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
• Know by sight
• Know someone in the biblical sense
• Lay a trip on someone
• Lead someone to the altar
• Leave someone cold
• Lick someone's boots
• Look someone up and down
• Love-hate relationship
• Make contact
• Make someone happy with a phone call (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• Make someone's toes curl

• Man's best friend
• Mine of information
• Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows
• Monstrous carbuncle on the face of an old friend (Prince Charles quotation)
• My enemy's enemy is my friend (proverb suggesting that opposing parties should cooperate)
• My friend, Joe Holmes, is now a horse (Arrow Shirts advertising slogan)
• My one regret in life is that I am not someone else (Woody Allen line)
• My right honourable friend
• On nodding acquaintance
• Out for someone's blood
• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read (Groucho Marx line)
• Phone a friend (A catchphrase from Who Wants to be a Millionaire)
• Pop someone's cherry
• Pull someone up short
• Pull the wool over someone's eyes
• Push someone's buttons
• Put someone down
• Put the bite on someone
• Put the fear of God into someone
• Put the fear of death into someone
• Put words into someone's mouth

• Reach out and touch someone (American Telephone & Telegraph advertising slogan)
• Renew your acquaintance
• Rob someone blind
• Rub shoulders with
• Rub someone's nose in it
• See the back of someone
• Sell someone a dummy
• Sensitive information
• Shoot someone a line
• Should old acquaintance be forgot
• Sing someone's praises
• Single point of contact
• Sit on someone's tail
• Snap someone's head off
• Somebody That I Used to Know (Gotye with Kimbra song)
• Somebody To Love (Queen song)
• Somebody somewhere wants a letter from you (British Post Office advertising slogan)
• Someone Like You (Adele song)
• Someone ears are burning
• Someone walked on my grave
• Steal someone's heart

• Steal someone's thunder
• String someone along
• Suck someone dry
• Take cuts at someone (A baseball expression meaning taking a verbal swing or striking a blow at a reputation)
• Take someone out
• Take someone to law
• Take someone to one side
• Take someone to task
• Take someone to the woodshed
• Take the bread out of someone's mouth
• Teach someone a lesson
• Teach someone a thing or two
• Tell someone where to get off
• The Girl Of My Best Friend (Elvis Presley song)
• The Information Superhighway
• The answer my friend is blowing in the wind (Bob Dylan song lyric)
• The empty chair (the perceived absense of someone who is recently deceased)
• The point of contact (Sprint advertising slogan)
• Think once, think twice, think bike (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
• Throw the book at someone
• Tip someone off

• Tip someone the wink
• Too much information
• Top breeders recommend it (Pedigree Chum Dog food advertising slogan)
• Toy with someone's affections
• Treat someone like dirt
• Trifle with someone's affections
• Use Somebody (Kings of Leon song)
• Walk all over someone
• Walk someone off their feet
• War baby (someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier)
• War criminal (someone who has flouted the Geneva Convention)
• War hero (someone who acted heroically during a war)
• What are friend for?
• When Somebody Loves You (Frank Sinatra song)
• Wind someone up (deliberately draw attention to something that will create agitation)
• You got a friend in the business (Gateway 2000 advertising slogan)
• You've Got A Friend (Carole King James Taylor song)
• Your friend in the digital age (COX Communications advertising slogan)