Basic Phrases

Phrases

• A golden key can open any door
• All your base are belong to us (broken English phrase used in the video game Zero Wing)
• As plain as a pikestaff
• As plain as day
• As plain as the nose on your face
• Back to basics
• Base jumping
• Base station
• Basic Instinct (Sharon Stone movie)
• Bog standard
• Broad brush
• Brown bag lunch
• Caught off base (A baseball expression meaning unawares or by surprise)
• Central Park (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• Central casting
• Central heating for kids (Ready Brek porridge advertising slogan)
• Come to the Central Park Zoo Cafeteria. Let the animals watch you eat for a change (Central Park Zoo advertising slogan)
• Command central
• Core competencies
• Core technology
• Crayola colours
• Double standard
• Fear Is The Key (Barry Newman movie)
• Get to first base
• Get to first base with
• Get to second base
• Hidden in plain sight
• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him
• In plain sight
• Is this trip necessary?
• It's so simple (Polaroid advertising slogan)
• Keep it real
• Keep it simple stupid
• Key of the door (Bingo call for number twenty one)
• Key to your heart
• Life's simple pleasures
• Lock him up and throw away the key
• Low key

• Make first base
• Makes sensible buying simple (Access Credit Card advertising slogan)
• No frills
• No introduction necessary
• Off base
• Off key
• Out of the box
• Plain Jane
• Plain sailing
• Plain speaking
• Primal Fear (film starring Richard Gere)
• Primal Rage (film and video game)
• Primal Scream (a psychological treatment for neurosis)
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Primal therapist (psychotherapist who uses Primal Scream method of treatment)
• Pure and simple
• Purl or plain
• Raw data
• Rough and ready
• Silver bullet (a simple and seeming effortless solution to a difficult problem)
• Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair (line from nursery rhyme)
• Simple life
• Simple yet effective
• Skeleton key
• Standard of the World (Cadillac advertising slogan)
• Steal third base
• Summer time (the time adopted during the summer in advance of the standard time)
• The Gold Standard
• The key to a nice, relaxed evening (Horlicks advertising slogan)
• The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain
• The truth is rarely pure and never simple (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• Throw away the key
• Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars (Buick advertising slogan)
• Touch base
• Under lock and key
• Vital signs
• Vital statistics
• Vodka as it should be (Russian Standard advertising slogan)
• We make it simple (Honda advertising slogan)