Approach Phrases

Phrases

• A Daniel come to judgement
• A funny thing happened on the way to the theatre
• A move in the right direction
• Advance guard
• Advance warning
• All aboard that's coming aboard
• All good things must come to an end
• All the way (euphemism for full sexual activity)
• All things come to he who waits
• And that's the way it is (A catchphrase from Walter Cronkite)
• Another way (NatWest advertising slogan)
• Any advance on
• Any way the wind blows
• Any way you slice it
• Any way you want it
• Any which way
• As near as dammit
• As tough as they come
• Attack is the best form of defence
• Attack of the Clones (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• Balanced approach
• Bear down
• Bear down on
• Bitch slap (a full swing slap in the face intended to be humiliating)
• Blow some my way (Chesterfield Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Blue Jay Way (Beatles song)
• Bold move
• Born This Way (Lady Gaga song)
• Bowel movement
• Brights movement
• Bust a move (dance in a stylish way)
• By the way
• By way of a joke
• By way of explanation
• Career limiting move
• Change has come to America
• Come Alive! You're in the Pepsi Generation (Pepsi advertising slogan)
• Come And Get It (Badfinger song)
• Come Away with Me (Norah Jones album)
• Come Fly With Me (Frank Sinatra song)
• Come Into The Garden Maud (Tennyson poem and Victorian song)
• Come On Baby Light My Fire (The Doors song)
• Come On Over (Shania Twain album)
• Come On Over (Shania Twain song)
• Come Running (Van Morrison song)
• Come Together (The Beatles song)
• Come a cropper
• Come about
• Come across
• Come again?
• Come and get it
• Come and talk to the listening bank (Midland Bank advertising slogan)
• Come apart at the seams
• Come back for more
• Come between
• Come clean
• Come down hard on
• Come down on someone like a ton of bricks
• Come down to earth with a bump
• Come down to the line
• Come easy to
• Come from behind
• Come full circle
• Come good
• Come hell or high water
• Come hither eyes
• Come home to Birds Eye Country (Birds Eye Frozen Foods advertising slogan)
• Come home to a real fire (Coal Board advertising slogan)
• Come home to roost
• Come in from the cold
• Come into bloom
• Come into line
• Come into view
• Come into your own
• Come of age
• Come off it
• Come on down (A catchphrase from The Price Is Right)
• Come on in, the water's fine
• Come on like gangbusters
• Come on over
• Come on stream
• Come on women, man the factories (WWII slogan)
• Come out
• Come out and play
• Come out fighting
• Come out in a cold sweat
• Come out in the wash
• Come out of the closet
• Come out of the woodwork
• Come out of your shell
• Come out on top
• Come out swinging
• Come out with your hands up
• Come out you're surrounded
• Come over all funny
• Come rain or shine
• Come round
• Come running
• Come the three corners of the world in arms
• Come to
• Come to Jesus
• Come to Marlboro Country (Marlboro Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Come to a head
• Come to a screeching halt
• Come to a sticky end
• Come to blows
• Come to fruition
• Come to grief
• Come to light
• Come to mama
• Come to nothing
• Come to papa
• Come to rest
• Come to the Central Park Zoo Cafeteria. Let the animals watch you eat for a change (Central Park Zoo advertising slogan)
• Come to the aid of the party
• Come to the edge
• Come to the party
• Come to think of it
• Come to where the flavor is (Marlboro Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Come to your senses
• Come together right now over me (Beatles song lyric)
• Come unstuck
• Come up and see me sometime (A catchphrase from Mae West)
• Come up short
• Come up smelling of roses
• Come up trumps
• Come up with
• Come up with the goods
• Come what come may
• Come wind come weather
• Come with a begging bowl
• Come with me to the casbah (A catchphrase from Charles Boyer)
• Come within an ace
• Comic timing (The rhythm and tempo of delivery required for comic effect)
• Coming out of your ears
• Coming to a screen near you
• Companion plant (a plant grown near to another species to enhance its growth)
• Cosy up to
• Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
• Crying all the way to the bank (A catchphrase from Liberace)
• Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down
• Denial of service attack
• Did the earth move for you
• Do it the hard way
• Do you come here often?
• Don't come the raw prawn
• Don't cross the bridge till you come to it
• Don't know which way to look
• Dream come true
• Drive your way (Hyundai advertising slogan)
• Each way bet
• Easy come easy go
• Every Step Of The Way (Mark Ballas song)
• Every Which Way But Loose (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better (Self-help slogan)
• Everything's coming up daisies
• Everything's coming up roses
• Faith will move mountains
• Far better for being near to you (The Chesham Building Society advertising slogan)
• First come first served
• First responder (the member of the emergency services to arrive at a disaster)
• Fly the American way (American Airlines advertising slogan)
• Get a move on
• Get into the swing of it
• Get under way
• Get your way
• Give way
• Go all the way
• Go down the wrong way
• Go out of your way to help
• Go the way of all flesh
• Go the whole way
• Go your own way
• Going my way?
• Good things come in small packages
• Good things come in small parcels
• Good things come in threes
• Good things come to those who wait (Guinness advertising slogan)
• Good timing
• Got it coming
• Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? (Sidney Poitier / Spencer Tracy movie)
• Hard to come by
• Have it coming
• Have it your own way
• Have it your way (Burger King advertising slogan)
• He's got a way with him
• Heart attack on a plate
• Heart attack waiting to happen
• Here I come to save the day (A catchphrase from Mighty Mouse)
• How come?
• I Like To Move It (Reel 2 Reel song)
• I'll swing for you
• I'm with you every step of the way
• I've come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum
• Idea whose time has come
• If you build it they will come
• If you think that you have another think coming
• If your friendly neighborhood grocer doesn't have a jar knock something off a shelf on the way out (Dilly Beans advertising slogan)
• In a bad way
• In a big way
• In a way
• In full swing
• In harm's way
• In the family way
• In the swing
• Inexpensive. And Built to Stay That Way (Subaru advertising slogan)
• It don't mean a thing if it ain't got swing
• It went down the wrong way
• It's All Coming Back To Me Now (Meatloaf song)
• It's a long way to Tipperary
• It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive
• It's come to a pretty pass
• It's the way it shatters that matters (Violet Crumble advertising slogan)
• Johnny come lately
• Just the Way You Are (Bruno Mars song)
• Keep out of harm's way
• Laugh all the way to the bank
• Line of attack
• Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
• Look the other way
• Love the Way You Lie (Eminem with Rihanna song)
• Love will find a way
• Made the American Way (Miller High Life advertising slogan)
• Make a move on
• Make way
• Make your move
• Make your way
• Motion picture
• Motion picture event
• 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
• My Boomerang Won't Come Back (Charlie Drake song)
• My ship has come in
• My way or the highway
• Near and dear to my heart
• Near death experience
• Near miss
• Near sighted
• Near the knuckle
• Near to one's heart
• Ninth inning (A baseball expression meaning an event or process is near the end)
• No room to swing a cat
• No way
• No way, Jose
• Not backward in coming forward
• Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party
• Oh, that way madness lies
• On the move
• On the way out
• Only 1 out of 25 men is color blind. The other 24 just dress that way (Mohara Suits advertising slogan)
• Oscar Meyer has a way with BOLOGNA (Oscar Meyer advertising slogan)
• Out of harm's way
• Out of the way
• Pave the way for
• Pay your way
• Poetry In Motion (Johnny Tillotson song)
• Put the make on
• Rain, rain go away, come again another day (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rock And Roll Dreams Come True (Meatloaf song)
• Rub up the wrong way
• See which way the cat jumps
• See you way clear
• Serious as a heart attack
• Set in motion
• Singapore Girl, you're a great way to fly (Singapore Airlines advertising slogan)
• Skim milk does not come from skinny cows (Alba Dry Milk advertising slogan)
• Slow motion
• Smooth move
• Snack attack
• So no one told you life was gonna be this way
• Some day my prince will come
• Some day my prints will come
• Something wicked this way comes
• Soothe it away the Oraldene way (Oraldene advertising slogan)
• Steam coming out of your ears
• Suck it up (accept a bad situation and move on)
• Sultan of Swing (Nickname of Wasim Akram - Pakistani cricketer)
• Summer time (the time adopted during the summer in advance of the standard time)
• Swing both ways
• Swing by (slang expression meaning drop in for a visit)
• Swing for the fences (A baseball expression meaning try for a substantial gain)
• Swing in the wind
• Swing the lead
• Take a swing at
• Take cuts at someone (A baseball expression meaning taking a verbal swing or striking a blow at a reputation)
• Take the easy way out
• Taste Me! Taste Me! Come on and Taste Me! (Doral Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Thank you, come again (A catchphrase from Apu In The Simpsons)
• That's the way the ball bounces
• That's the way the cookie crumbles
• That's the way to do it (A catchphrase from Punch And Judy)
• The Brits are coming
• The King of Swing (Nickname of Benny Goodman)
• The Only Way Is Essex (British reality television series)
• The Russians are coming
• The best is yet to come
• The best way of expressing your intelligence (Zenith Data Systems advertising slogan)
• The best way to get music out of your system (Philips advertising slogan)
• The chickens have come home to roost
• The coward's way out
• The light at the end of the tunnel may just be a train coming the other way
• The lighter way to enjoy chocolate (Maltesers advertising slogan)
• The motion of the ocean
• The old-fashioned way
• The only way to fly (Western Airlines advertising slogan)
• The shape of things to come
• The sweet you can eat between meals without losing your appetite (Milky Way advertising slogan)
• The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things
• The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, Carroll)
• The way of all flesh
• The way of the cross
• The way of the world
• The way the ball bounces
• The way to a man's heart is through his stomach
• The way we were
• The wheel has come full circle
• The wheels have come off
• There's more than one way to skin a cat
• They never come back
• Things to come
• Third way
• Throw a beanball (A baseball expression meaning to attack an opponent by aiming at their head)
• Till the cows come home
• Timing is everything
• To kingdom come
• To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive
• Triumph has the bra for the way you are (Triumph Lingerie advertising slogan)
• Two timing
• Under way
• Up and coming
• Want to reach 8 out of 10 adults - walk this way (Yellow Pages advertising slogan)
• Way Moby
• Way cool
• Way off beam
• Way off the mark
• Way to go
• Way with words
• We do it your way (Burger King advertising slogan)
• We make money the old fashioned way, we earn it (Smith Barney advertising slogan)
• We really move our tail for you (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• We will cross that bridge when we come to it
• What goes up must come down
• What has come over you?
• When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions
• When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
• When you come to think of it
• Where there's a will there's a way
• Who are you? (Nintendo Game Boy Advance advertising slogan)
• Why don't you come up sometime and see me? (She Done Him Wrong)
• With You Every Step Of The Way (John Waite song)
• With you every step of the way
• With you, all the way (State Bank of India advertising slogan)
• Worm your way into something
• Wrong Way Corrigan (Nickname of Douglas Corrigan)
• You are now free to move about the country (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
• You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows
• You'd be so nice to come home to
• You'll love the way we fly (Delta Airlines advertising slogan)
• You've come a long way, baby (Virginia Slims Cigarettes advertising slogan)