Adopt Phrases

Phrases

• A boy's best friend is his mother (Psycho)
• A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
• A woman's right to choose
• Accept a wooden nickel
• Accept that some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue
• Accept with thanks
• Alpha Mom (an ambitious mother who aims to excel at work while raising children)
• Are you sitting comfortably? (A catchphrase from Listen With Mother)
• Assume nothing
• Atom Heart Mother (Pink Floyd album)
• Baby father
• Beg, borrow or steal
• Borrow trouble
• Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
• Calgon, take me away! (Calgon advertising slogan)
• Can you hear me, mother? (A catchphrase from Sandy Powell)
• Child of God
• Child's play
• Choose your weapon
• Choosy Moms choose Jif (Jif Peanut Butter advertising slogan)
• Coin a phrase
• Coin of the realm
• Do you kiss your mother with that mouth
• Does you does, or does you don't take Access? (Access Credit Card advertising slogan)
• Don't take it lying down
• Don't take on so
• Double take
• Drink, feck, arse (A catchphrase from Father Ted)
• Early adopter
• Earth mother
• Every Breath You Take (The Police song)
• Every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost
• Every mother's son
• Face that only a mother could love
• Father Knows Best (American TV Show)
• Father Of The Bride (Steve Martin movie)
• Father Ted (BBC comedy television series)
• Father of The Atomic Bomb (Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer)
• Follow in the footsteps of
• Follow suit
• Follow the yellow brick road
• Follow your heart
• Follow your nose (Froot Loops advertising slogan)
• For great lager, follow the bear (Hoffmeister lager advertising slogan)
• Founding father
• Full fathom five thy father lies (from The Tempest by Shakespeare)
• Give and take
• Give him an inch and he'll take a mile
• Give or take
• Go tell your mother she wants you
• Go with child
• Good mornings follow a good Nytol (Nytol Sleeping Pills advertising slogan)
• Hard act to follow
• Hard to take
• Heavy with child
• His father's son
• Honour thy father and mother
• House mother
• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?
• How's your father
• I Can't Take My Eyes Off You (Muse song)
• I swear on my mother's life
• I'll Follow The Sun (The Beatles song)
• I'll be mother
• I'll take my hat off to you
• I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! (line from the movie Network)
• If that don't take the rag off the bush
• It doesn't take a minute to bag it and bin it (UK public advertisement advertising slogan)
• It isn't nice to fool mother nature
• It's how the smooth take the rough (Range Rover advertising slogan)
• Just a glint in his father's eye
• Kid tested Mother approved (Kix advertising slogan)
• Learnt at your mother's knee
• Leave no child behind (Political slogan)
• Leave the gun, take the cannoli (line from The Godfather)
• Let me take you down, cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields (Beatles song lyric)
• Let nature take its course
• Let the train take the strain (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Like father, like son
• Like mother used to make
• Love child
• Mama always said that life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get (line from the movie Forrest Gump)
• Mother Courage (play by Bertolt Brecht)
• Mother Earth
• Mother Russia
• Mother Superior jumped the gun (Beatles song lyric)
• Mother church
• Mother country
• Mother f*cker
• Mother hen
• Mother knows best
• Mother love
• Mother nature
• Mother of God
• Mother ship
• Mother tongue
• Mother's boy
• Mother's help
• Necessity is the mother of invention
• Never follow (Audi advertising slogan)
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• Old enough to be your mother
• On the take
• Open the box (A catchphrase from Take Your Pick)
• Our father who art in heaven
• Pick and choose
• Problem child
• Rest up (take a break from one's arduous efforts)
• Santa's Little Helpers (allusion to the elves that help Father Christmas)
• Saturday's child works hard for a living
• Saviour sibling (a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease)
• Shut up and take my money (A catchphrase from Futurama)
• Sit up and take notice
• Spare the rod and spoil the child
• Spit take (spitting out a drink in response to a joke or surprise)
• Step up to the mark (mark yourself ready to take responsibility)
• Suck it up (accept a bad situation and move on)
• Summer time (the time adopted during the summer in advance of the standard time)
• Sunday's child is full of grace
• Take A Walk On The Wild Side (Lou Reed song)
• Take Five (Dave Brubeck tune)
• Take On Me (a-ha song)
• Take The A Train (Duke Ellington tune)
• Take These Chains From My Heart (Ray Charles song)
• Take a Mulligan
• Take a Thomas Cook at our prices! (Thomas Cook Travel advertising slogan)
• Take a back seat
• Take a bath
• Take a bath in the dark tonight and let the water make love to your skin (Lavin Perfumes & Soaps advertising slogan)
• Take a beating
• Take a bite out of crime
• Take a bite out of crime! (National Crime Prevention Council advertising slogan)
• Take a bite out of something
• Take a blue pencil to
• Take a bow
• Take a breather
• Take a butchers (Cockney rhyming slang for look)
• Take a chance on me (ABBA lyric)
• Take a chill pill
• Take a cold hard look
• Take a dip
• Take a fall for
• Take a few deep breaths
• Take a flier
• Take a gamble
• Take a gander
• Take a hammering
• Take a hard line
• Take a healthy interest
• Take a hike
• Take a long walk off a short pier
• Take a long walk off a short plank
• Take a moment
• Take a pew
• Take a pop at
• Take a pot shot at
• Take a powder
• Take a raincheck
• Take a running jump
• Take a seat
• Take a shine to
• Take a stab at
• Take a stand
• Take a swing at
• Take a turn for the worse
• Take account of
• Take advantage of
• Take after
• Take aim
• Take apart
• Take care of
• Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves
• Take centre stage
• Take charge
• Take courage (Courage Beer advertising slogan)
• Take cuts at someone (A baseball expression meaning taking a verbal swing or striking a blow at a reputation)
• Take down a peg or two
• Take five
• Take flight
• Take for granted
• Take fright
• Take home pay
• Take in your stride
• Take issue with
• Take it as read
• Take it as you find it
• Take it easy
• Take it for a spin
• Take it from the top
• Take it in good part
• Take it into your head
• Take it like a man
• Take it offline
• Take it on the chin
• Take it on the lam
• Take it or leave it
• Take it outside
• Take it to heart
• Take it to the mattresses
• Take it to the next level
• Take it up a gear
• Take it up a notch
• Take it with a grain of salt
• Take leave of your senses
• Take liberties
• Take liberties with
• Take me out to the ball game
• Take me to the river
• Take me to your leader
• Take no prisoners
• Take note of
• Take one day at a time
• Take one for the team
• Take shape
• Take someone out
• Take someone to law
• Take someone to one side
• Take someone to task
• Take someone to the woodshed
• Take someone's word for it
• Take something on board
• Take steps
• Take stock
• Take the Michael
• Take the air
• Take the bait
• Take the biscuit
• Take the bit between your teeth
• Take the bread out of someone's mouth
• Take the bull by the horns
• Take the chequered flag
• Take the count
• Take the easy way out
• Take the edge off
• Take the field (begin a sporting event or a military campaign)
• Take the good with the bad
• Take the king's shilling
• Take the law into your own hands
• Take the lead
• Take the mickey
• Take the money and run
• Take the money, open the box
• Take the piss
• Take the pledge
• Take the plunge
• Take the rap
• Take the rough with the smooth
• Take the shilling
• Take the shirt off your back
• Take the town by storm
• Take the veil
• Take the weight off your feet
• Take the wind out of my sails
• Take the words out of my mouth
• Take time out
• Take to the boats
• Take to the hills
• Take to your bed
• Take two aspirin and call me in the morning
• Take umbrage
• Take under your wing
• Take up residence
• Take up the cudgels for
• Take up the slack
• Take up your bed and walk
• Take with a grain of salt
• Take with a pinch of salt
• Take your breath away
• Take your cue
• Take your groceries for a swim
• Take your hand in marriage
• Take your hat off to
• Take your heels
• Take your life
• Take your life in your hands
• Take your lumps
• Take your mind of it
• Take your pick
• Take your pleasure where you can find it
• The Devil take the hindmost
• The Devil take you
• The Man Child (Nickname of Dwight Howard)
• The Man with the Child in His Eyes (Kate Bush song)
• The Sash My Father Wore (Irish traditional song)
• The boy is father to the man
• The child is father of the man (from a poem by Wordsworth)
• The mother of all battles
• The only 'sauce' I dare give Father (Burma Sauce advertising slogan)
• The other side of the coin
• The sash my father wore
• The wish is father to the thought
• This is Not Your Father's Oldsmobile (Oldsmobile advertising slogan)
• Thursday's child has far to go
• Tied to his mother's apron strings
• To assume makes an ass out of u and me
• Top people take the Times (The Times advertising slogan)
• Toss up (flip a coin to decide on something)
• Voodoo Child (Jimi Hendrix song)
• War baby (someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier)
• We'll take good care of you (British Airways advertising slogan)
• Wednesday's child has far to go
• When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me (Beatles song lyric)
• Who's she, the cat's mother?
• With child
• You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family
• You can take that to the bank
• You can't take it back, it's out there (When Harry met Sally)
• You can't take it with you
• You pay your money and you take your choice
• You take the high road: I'll take the low road
• You'll never take me alive copper
• Your Mother Should Know (The Beatles song)
• Your mission, if you choose to accept it ... (A catchphrase from Mission Impossible)