Anticipate Phrases

Phrases

• A cat may look at a king
• A class act
• A move in the right direction
• Act of God
• Act out
• Act the fool
• Act the giddy goat
• Act the part
• Act up
• Act white
• Act your age
• Ahead of his time
• Ahead of the game
• All I know is what I read in the papers (Will Rogers quotation)
• Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life (Monty Python's Flying Circus song)
• And don't I know it
• And for the life of me I don't know why (A catchphrase from David Letterman)
• As sober as a judge
• Assume nothing
• Back office bean counter
• Balancing act
• Be the first to know (CNN advertising slogan)
• Bean counter
• Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't
• Blank look
• Bold move
• Bust a move (dance in a stylish way)
• Career limiting move
• Caught in the act
• Class act
• Clean up your act
• Cooks who know trust Crisco (Crisco Vegetable Shortening advertising slogan)
• Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
• Counter intelligence
• Did the earth move for you
• Dirty look
• Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid song)
• Do You Want To Know A Secret? (Beatles song)
• Do a disappearing act
• Do you know the piano's on my foot?
• Does my bum look big in this? (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Doesn't know beans
• Doesn't know his arse from a hole in the ground
• Doesn't know his arse from his elbow
• Doesn't know shit from Shinola
• Don't Look Now (Julie Christie / Donald Sutherland movie)
• Don't keep us in suspense
• Don't know Dick
• Don't know what to do with yourself
• Don't know which way to look
• Don't know your born
• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
• Don't you know there's a war on? (WWII slogan)
• Double act
• Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (Woody Allen movie)
• Expect the unexpected
• Faith will move mountains
• Faraway look
• Fit But You Know It (The Streets' song)
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• For all I know
• Forgive them for they know not what they do
• Funny, you don't look Jewish
• Get a move on
• Get in on the act
• Get your act together
• Good things come to those who wait (Guinness advertising slogan)
• Hanging judge
• Hard act to follow
• Have a Captain Cook (Cockney rhyming slang for look)
• Have a look
• Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beatty movie)
• Here comes de judge (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
• High wire act
• Human Rights Act
• Hurry up and wait
• I Like To Move It (Reel 2 Reel song)
• I don't know him from Adam
• I don't know much about art but I know what I like
• I know I packed it (Horlicks advertising slogan)
• I know nothing! (A catchphrase from Hogan's Heroes)
• I look at the world and I notice it's turning (The Beatles song lyric)
• I may not know much about art, but I know what I like
• I'm Sexy And I Know It (LMFAO song)
• I've been cheated by you since I don't know when (ABBA lyric)
• If you haven't looked at Ford lately, look again (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands
• In on the act
• In the know
• It takes one to know one
• It's The End Of The World As We Know It (R.E.M. song)
• It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
• It's life Jim, but not as we know it (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• It's not what you know it's who you know
• Judge Judy
• Judge not, that ye be not judged
• Jump the gun
• Know all
• Know all the answers
• Know backwards
• Know by heart
• Know by sight
• Know for a fact
• Know full well
• Know how
• Know how many beans make five
• Know like the back of your hand
• Know no pity
• Know someone in the biblical sense
• Know the ropes
• Know the score
• Know thyself
• Know too much
• Know what you are about
• Know what's what
• Know where we stand
• Know which end is up
• Know which side your bread is buttered
• Know your enemy
• Know your stuff
• Let me not judge anyone until I have walked a mile in his moccasins
• Lie in wait
• Look Ma, no cavities! (Crest Toothpaste advertising slogan)
• Look a fright
• Look after number one
• Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves
• Look alive
• Look and feel
• Look away now
• Look before you leap
• Look both ways
• Look daggers
• Look death in the eye
• Look down on
• Look down your nose
• Look for the Golden Arches (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Look in on
• Look into
• Look lively
• Look ma, no hands!
• Look no further
• Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair (from a poem by Shelley)
• Look out
• Look out for number one
• Look over
• Look over your shoulder
• Look sharp
• Look sharp, feel sharp (Gillette advertising slogan)
• Look someone up and down
• Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls! (A catchphrase from Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In)
• Look the other way
• Look to your laurels
• Look up to
• Look what the cat dragged in
• Look who's talking?
• Look you bach
• Look your best while you wear our least (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• Look, no hands
• Looking forward to
• Love, love me do, you know I love you (Beatles song lyric)
• Mad, bad and dangerous to know
• Make a move on
• Make your move
• Mother Superior jumped the gun (Beatles song lyric)
• Move It On Over (Hank Williams song)
• Move On Up a Little Higher (Mahalia Jackson song)
• Move heaven and earth
• Move in the best circles
• Move over
• Move right along
• Move with the times
• Never judge a book by its cover
• Never look a gift horse in the mouth
• Never look back
• Not a lot of people know that (A catchphrase from Michael Caine)
• Old fashioned look
• On a need to know basis
• On the move
• One Of Us Must Know (Bob Dylan song)
• One half of the world does not know how the other half lives
• One step ahead
• Over the teeth and through the gums, look out stomach here it comes
• Phone it in (perform an act in an uncommitted disinterested manner)
• Play hardball (A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive)
• Pre-emptive strike
• Prepare for the worst
• Prepare to rock
• Put on an act
• Random act of kindness
• Read the riot act
• Save it for the judge
• Schhh! You know who? (Schweppes advertising slogan)
• Sexy and I Know It (LMFAO song)
• Sister Act (Whoopie Goldberg movie)
• Smooth move
• Somebody That I Used to Know (Gotye with Kimbra song)
• Stop, Look and Listen; remember the Green Cross Code (UK Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• Suck it up (accept a bad situation and move on)
• Take a butchers (Cockney rhyming slang for look)
• Take a cold hard look
• That Friday feeling (anticipation of the weekend after a hard working week)
• The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean (Paul Newman movie)
• The act you've known for all these years (Beatles song lyric)
• The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner (9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan)
• The end of civilization as we know it
• The husband is always the last to know
• The look is Immac-ulate (Immac Depilatory advertising slogan)
• The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing
• The wait is over
• They also serve who only stand and wait (from a poem by Milton)
• Think global, act local
• Think globally, act locally (Friends of the Earth advertising slogan)
• Time and tide wait for no man
• To Know Him Is To Love Him (Phil Spector song)
• To assume makes an ass out of u and me
• Tonic water by you know who (Schweppes advertising slogan)
• Triple play (A baseball expression denoting the act of making three outs during the same play)
• Under the counter
• Victory won't wait for the nation that's late (Big Ben Clocks advertising slogan)
• Wait in line
• Wait just a cotton picking minute
• We know where the bodies are buried
• We know where you live
• We really move our tail for you (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• Well, she was just seventeen you know what I mean (The Beatles song lyric)
• What you don't know can't hurt you
• When Saturday comes
• Yeah, I know (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• You Know I'm No Good (Amy Winehouse song)
• You are now free to move about the country (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
• You be the judge
• You don't know jack
• You don't know you are born
• You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground
• You don't know your own strength
• You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows
• You know it makes sense (A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses)
• You know it makes sense (Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• You know the drill
• You know what sailors are
• You know what? I'm happy (A catchphrase from Droopy)
• You know when you've been Tango'd (Tango advertising slogan)
• You look as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards
• You look as though you've seen the ghost
• You look... Mahvelous! (A catchphrase from Saturday Night Live)
• You'll look a little lovelier each day, with fabulous pink Camay (Camay Soap advertising slogan)
• Your Mother Should Know (The Beatles song)