Appointment Phrases

Phrases

• A double date
• A person is known by the company he keeps
• A room without books is like a body without a soul (Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation)
• About time too
• All human life is there (News Of The World advertising slogan)
• Always the bridesmaid never a bride
• Beat someone black and blue
• 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
• Bless my soul
• Blow someone away
• Boat person
• Body and soul
• Body painting (a form of painting that uses the human body as a canvas)
• Bonus genius (a good spirit accompanying and supporting someone)
• Bore the pants off someone
• Boulevard of broken dreams
• Brevity is the soul of wit
• Broken dreams
• Bump into someone
• Bust someone's ass
• Buttonhole someone
• By royal appointment
• Cat person
• Chew someone's ass
• Close, but no cigar
• Come down on someone like a ton of bricks
• Confession is good for the soul
• Consult your diary
• 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)
• Decision engine (A form of search engine)
• Decision height (The point at which a pilot must abort a landing)
• Did Somebody Say McDonald's? (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Displaced person
• Dogged determination
• Draw someone's fire
• Drive someone into a corner
• Drop someone off
• Dump on someone
• Eat out of someone's hand
• Eat someone alive
• Ethnic stocking (the appointment to political office on the basis of ethnicity)
• Evening person
• Executive decision
• Eye someone up and down
• Fancy meeting you here
• Feel someone up
• Feel someone's collar
• Figure painting (a form of painting in which the human body is the subject)
• First among equals (the most senior person in a group of equal rank)
• Flip someone the bird
• Foregone conclusion
• Freeze someone out
• Fuel for the Soul (Pontiac advertising slogan)
• 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
• God rest his soul
• Gotta Serve Somebody (Bob Dylan song)
• Grass someone up
• Have someone on toast
• Have someone's ear
• Have you any last requests? (humorous question asked as though a person was about to be killed)
• Have your card marked
• Heap coals of fire on someone's head
• Hear someone out
• Heart and soul
• Heavy hitter (A baseball expression meaning a powerful or commanding person)
• Hey, Soul Sister (Train song)
• High roller (someone who gambles for high stakes)
• Hit the bricks (a cursory slang term telling someone to leave)
• Hope springs eternal in the human breast (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• Human Rights Act
• Human condition
• Human error
• Human kind cannot bear very much reality (from a poem by Eliot)
• Human nature
• Human resources
• Human rights
• I Want Somebody To Love (The Beatles song)
• I'm only human
• If you want to impress someone, put him on your Black list (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• In person
• In someone's bad books
• Individual streak
• 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
• Jog someone's elbow
• Jump someone's bones
• Jump to the wrong conclusion
• Keep body and soul together
• Keep someone sweet
• Knock back
• Know someone in the biblical sense

• Lay a trip on someone
• Lead someone to the altar
• Leave someone cold
• Let down
• Let's do lunch
• Lick someone's boots
• Life and soul of the party
• Little black book
• Look someone up and down
• Lost soul
• Make a date
• Make someone happy with a phone call (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• Make someone's toes curl
• Makes you feel human again (Solpadeine advertising slogan)
• Meet up
• Meeting of the minds
• More human interest (Washington Mutual advertising slogan)
• Morning person
• Mortal remains
• My one regret in life is that I am not someone else (Woody Allen line)
• Naming rights
• Net meeting
• Northern soul
• Not my type (not a person one is attracted to)
• Of Human Bondage (Bette Davis movie)
• Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he (line from nursery rhyme)
• Only human
• Out for someone's blood
• People person
• Person of interest
• Person to person
• Pop someone's cherry
• Portrait painting (a form of painting in which the human face is the subject)
• Potty mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• 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)
• Rob someone blind
• Rub someone's nose in it
• Rubber Soul (Beatles album)
• See the back of someone
• Sell someone a dummy
• Sell your soul to the devil
• Shoot someone a line
• Shuffle off this mortal coil
• Sing someone's praises
• Sit on someone's tail
• Snap decision
• 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
• Soul brother
• Soul food
• Soul man
• Soul searching
• Soul sister
• Soul train
• Split decision
• 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
• Tea for two
• Teach someone a lesson
• Teach someone a thing or two
• Tell someone where to get off
• The Godfather of Soul (Pseudonym of singer James Brown)
• The Human Eraser (Nickname of Marvin Webster)
• The Human Highlight Reel (Nickname of Dominique Wilkins)
• The Human Rain Delay (Nickname of Mike Hargrove)
• The Human Termite (Nickname of Joe Interleggi)
• The Human Victory Cigar (Nickname of Darko Milicic)
• The Hustle (Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony song)
• The empty chair (the perceived absense of someone who is recently deceased)
• The eyes are the windows of the soul
• The human race
• The milk of human kindness
• The most human handset (DiStar advertising slogan)
• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid (Jane Austen quotation)
• The referee's decision is final
• There's not a soul out there, no one to hear my prayer (ABBA lyric)
• Throw the book at someone
• Tip someone off
• Tip someone the wink
• To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer
• Toilet mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• 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
• Wallpaper the meeting
• 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)
• Wardrobe mistress (a person in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company)
• When Somebody Loves You (Frank Sinatra song)
• Wind someone up (deliberately draw attention to something that will create agitation)
• You're My Heart, You're My Soul (Modern Talking song)
• You, of all people (exclamation when meeting someone unexpectedly)