Altar Phrases

Phrases

• Alter ego
• As nervous as a whore in church
• As poor as a church mouse
• Bring to the table
• Circumstances alter cases
• Contingency table (A matrix of numbers illustrating the correlation of one variable with another)
• Drunk under the table
• Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been (Beatles song lyric)
• Get round the table
• Get your feet under the table
• Golden wedding
• High church
• How con-veen-ient! (A catchphrase from The Church Lady In Saturday Night Live)

• Lay the table
• Lay your cards on the table
• Lead someone to the altar
• Mother church
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Nia Vardalos movie)
• On the table
• One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth
• One wedding brings another
• Only the best for the Captain's table (Birdseye advertising slogan)
• Praying at the porcelain altar
• Put bread on the table
• Put your cards on the table
• Round table talks

• Round the table
• Ruby wedding
• Shotgun wedding
• Silver wedding (a celebration of twenty-five years of marriage)
• Supreme sacrifice
• Table Mountain (tourist attraction in South Africa)
• Table for two
• The Conservative Party at prayer (The Church of England)
• The Wedding (Julie Rogers song)
• The crumbs from a rich man's table
• Top table
• Wedding bells
• Wedding tackle