Atomic Phrases

Phrases

• A still small voice
• All creatures great and small
• As small as the hairs on a gnat's bollock
• At the last minute
• Atom Heart Mother (Pink Floyd album)
• Ban the bomb
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Bunny suit (Canadian military slang term for a cbrn (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear))
• Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Peter Sellers movie)
• Don't close your eyes for a minute
• Don't sweat the small stuff
• Father of The Atomic Bomb (Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer)
• Gnat's bollock (slang term for a very small unit of measurement)
• Good things come in small packages
• Good things come in small parcels
• Greasy spoon (a small cheap cafe selling fried food)
• Hang on a minute
• Hold on a minute
• It doesn't take a minute to bag it and bin it (UK public advertisement advertising slogan)
• Last minute
• Laugh a minute
• Letter bomb
• Looks like a bomb has hit it
• New York minute
• No job too small
• Nuclear autumn

• Nuclear option
• Nuclear winter
• One minute to midnight
• One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind (Neil Armstrong quotation)
• Seeing small business differently (SBC Communications advertising slogan)
• Small beer
• Small fortune
• Small is beautiful
• Small minded
• Small potatoes
• Small wonder
• Small wonder (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• Solutions for a small planet (IBM advertising slogan)
• The God Of Small Things (Arundhati Roy book)
• The next small thing
• The patter of tiny feet
• The small screen
• The still small voice of God
• The winner takes it all, the loser standing small (ABBA lyric)
• There's one born every minute
• Think small (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• Time out for tiny little tea leaves in Tetley Tea (Tetley Tea advertising slogan)
• Tiptoe through the tulips (1920s Broadway song and Tiny Tim hit)
• Wait just a cotton picking minute
• Weather bomb (a rapidly deepening low pressure area causing severe storms)
• Wee small hours of the morning
• You can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff (Groucho Marx line)