Appropriate Phrases

Phrases

• A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth book)
• A move in the right direction
• A woman's right to choose
• Act the part
• All the news that's fit to print (New York Times advertising slogan)
• All the right moves
• Apropos of nothing
• As fit as a butcher's dog
• As fit as a fiddle
• As right as ninepence
• As right as rain
• Assume nothing
• At your convenience
• Barge right in
• Capture the imagination
• Carpe diem (latin expression meaning seize the day)
• Come on down (A catchphrase from The Price Is Right)
• Come together right now over me (Beatles song lyric)
• Credit where credit is due
• Dish fit for the gods
• Divide and conquer
• Divine right of kings
• Do Right Woman Do Right Man (Aretha Franklin song)
• Do all right for yourself
• Do what tastes right (Wendy's Restaurants advertising slogan)
• Don't just travel. Travel right (Expedia advertising slogan)
• Down pat
• Due a win
• Due diligence
• Eyes right
• Fight For The Right To Party (Beastie Boys song)
• Fighting fit
• Fill the bill
• Fit But You Know It (The Streets' song)
• Fit Dunlop and be satisfied (Dunlop Tyres advertising slogan)
• Fit a quart into a pint pot
• Fit for a king
• Fit for purpose
• Fit in with
• Fit of the giggles
• Fit the bill
• Fit to a T
• Fit to be tied
• Get off on the right foot
• Give credit where credit is due
• Give him a right good Hemeling tonight (Hemeling Lager advertising slogan)
• Give one's right arm for
• Give the Devil his due
• Guards, seize him
• Hands up if you use Right Guard, Hands down if you don't (Right Guard antiperspirant advertising slogan)
• Hang a right
• Have a fit
• He will give the Devil his due
• Hissy fit
• Hold it right there
• Horses for courses
• I Capture The Castle (Dodie Smith book)
• I'll see you all right
• I'm Too Sexy For My Shirt (Right Said Fred song)
• I'm all right Jack
• If this is wrong I don't want to be right
• In due course
• In the right
• In the right place at the right time
• In the right vein
• It serves you right
• It will be all right on the night
• It's not too heavy, not too sweet, it's right for you (RC Cola advertising slogan)
• It's what your right arm's for (Courage Beer advertising slogan)
• Keep on the right side of
• Laugh fit to burst
• Left right and centre
• Left right, left right, march
• Let the punishment fit the crime
• Let's do the show right here
• Maasai Mara National Reserve (tourist attraction in Kenya)
• Might is right
• Might makes right
• Move right along
• Moving right along
• My country right or wrong
• My right honourable friend
• Not fit for a dog
• Not fit for purpose
• Not right in the head
• Not too heavy, not too light, its just right! (Kelloggs advertising slogan)
• Off pat
• On cue
• On the right track
• On your Pat (Cockney rhyming slang for alone)
• One instinctively knows when something is right (Croft Original Sherry advertising slogan)
• Pat a cake, Pat a cake, baker's man, bake me a cake as fast as you can (line from nursery rhyme)
• Pat on the back
• Pat the Bat (Nickname of Pat Burrell)
• Perfect fit
• Play your cards right
• Portion control
• Praise where praise is due
• Prim and proper
• Regulatory capture
• Right Round (Flo Rida song)
• Right and proper
• Right back at ya
• Right before your eyes
• Right enough
• Right hand man
• Right here, right now
• Right off the bat (A baseball expression meaning immediately without delay)
• Right on the money
• Right service Right price (Meineke advertising slogan)
• Right up your alley
• Right up your street
• Right wing
• Right you are
• Rubber cheque (a cheque that is returned (bounced) due to insufficient funds)
• Seize him
• Seize the day
• She Stoops to Conquer (play by Oliver Goldsmith)
• She'll be right
• Square peg in a round hole
• Step right up
• Straighten up and fly right
• Suited and booted
• Switch hitter (A baseball expression denoting a batter who can hit left or right handed)
• The Dowager Queen of the Game Shows (Nickname of Pat Carroll)
• The Kids Are All Right (Annette Benning movie)
• The customer is always right
• The order of the day
• The price is right
• The proper study of mankind is man (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing
• The right man for the job
• The right one (Martini advertising slogan)
• The right place at the wrong time
• The right tool for the job
• The right tools for the job
• Tick all the right boxes
• To assume makes an ass out of u and me
• Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest
• Treat me right
• Two wrongs don't make a right
• Up your alley
• Waiting for Mr Right
• We do chicken right (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Well fit
• Well-chosen words
• What do points mean? Points mean prizes (A catchphrase from Price Is Right)
• Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right (Henry Ford quotation)
• Why don't we do the show right here?
• Work hard. Fly right (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth, It Must Have Been Whilst You Were Kissing Me (Meatloaf song)
• You have the right to remain silent
• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough (Mae West quotation)