Bible Phrases

Phrases

• 1066 And All That: A Memorable History Of England (W. C. Sellar book)
• A Bouquet Of Barbed Wire (Andrea Newman book)
• A Brief History Of Time (Stephen Hawking book)
• A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens book)
• A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess book and Stanley Kubrick movie)
• A Fatal Inversion (Barbara Vine book)
• A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Future: Twists And Turns, And Lessons Learned (Michael J. Fox book)
• A Journey To The Center Of The Earth (Jules Verne book)
• A Kestrel For A Knave (Barry Hines book)
• A Murder Is Announced (Agatha Christie book)
• A Passage To India (E. M. Forster book and David Lean movie)
• A Perfect Spy (John Le Carre book)
• A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man (James Joyce book)
• A Prayer For Owen Meany (John Irving book)
• A Room With A View (E M Forster book)
• A Short History Of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson book)
• A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian (Marina Lewycka book)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams play)
• A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth book)
• A Tale Of Two Cities (Charles Dickens book)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseine book)
• A Town Like Alice (Nevil Shute book)
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A man after my own heart
• Adam's ale
• Adam's apple
• Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall (Spike Milligan book)
• All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye (Christopher Brookmyer book)
• All Quiet On The Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque book and WWII movie)
• All things to all men
• Alpha and omega (the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, used as a name for God or Jesus)
• Always have your nose in a book
• Am I my brother's keeper?
• Amazing grace
• An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
• And God said Let there be light And the was light
• And The Band Played On (Randy Shilts book)
• And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie book)
• Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt book)
• Animal Farm (George Orwell book)
• Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy book)
• Anne Of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery book)
• Around The World In Eighty Days (Jules Verne book)
• Art Of War (Sun Tzu book)
• As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner book)
• As many chins as a Chinese phone book
• As old as Methuselah
• As old as the hills
• As patient as Job
• As you sow so shall you reap
• Ashes to ashes dust to dust
• Ask and you shall receive
• Asleep with Jesus
• Beat swords into ploughshares
• Bell, book and candle
• Bible basher
• Big Donkey (Nickname of baseball players Billy Butler and Adam Dunn)
• Black Beauty (Anna Sewell book)
• Black Jesus (Nickname of basketball player Amare Stoudemire)
• Bleak House (Charles Dickens book)
• Blessed are the cheese makers (line from Monty Python's Life of Brian)
• Blessed are the peacemakers
• Book him
• Book him Danno (A catchphrase from Hawaii Five-O)
• Book learning
• Book worm
• Born again
• Brave New World (Aldous Huxley book)
• Bread of life
• Breakfast At Tiffany's (Truman Capote book)
• Breakfast Of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut book)
• Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh book)
• Bright Lights, Big City (Jay Mcinerney book)
• Bring to book
• Brought to book
• Build A Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies (Dilbert)
• By the book
• By the skin of your teeth
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Louis de Bernieres book)
• Captain Underpants And The Invasion Of The Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space (Dav Pilkey book)
• Captain Underpants And The Perilous Plot Of Professor Poopypants (Dav Pilkey book)
• Captain Underpants And The Wrath Of The Wicked Wedgie Woman (Dav Pilkey book)
• Cast the first stone
• Catch 22 (Joseph Heller book)
• Change your spots
• Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl book)
• Closed book
• Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell book)
• Coat of many colours
• Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons book)
• Come to Jesus
• Crack a book
• Creeping Jesus
• Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky book)
• Crooked House (Agatha Christie book)
• David Copperfield (Charles Dickens book)
• Day of Judgment
• Day of reckoning
• Dead Man Walking (Helen Prejean book)
• Death On The Nile (Agatha Christie book)
• Death On The Orient Express (Agatha Christie book)
• Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick book)
• Don't just book it, Thomas Cook it (Thomas Cook advertising slogan)
• Doubting Thomas (Nickname of Saint Thomas)
• Drop in the bucket
• Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die
• Eats, Shoots And Leaves (Lynne Truss book)
• Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (Tom Robbins book)
• Every trick in the book
• Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (David Reuben book)
• Evil Under The Sun (Agatha Christie book)
• Exert one's authority
• Faith will move mountains
• Fall from grace
• Far From The Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy book)
• Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson book)
• Fifty Shades of Grey (E L James book)
• Fight the good fight
• First Among Equals (Jeffrey Archer book)
• For Christ's sake
• For everything there is a season
• Forbidden fruit
• Forgive them for they know not what they do
• From strength to strength
• Fruits of your loins
• Gentle Jesus, meek and mild
• Get religion
• Get thee behind me Satan
• Give up the ghost
• Go by the book
• Good Samaritan
• Goodnight Mister Tom book by Michelle Magorian
• Gospel truth
• Great Expectations (Charles Dickens book)
• Guards! Guards! (Terry Pratchett book)
• Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets (J. K. Rowling book)
• Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (J. K. Rowling book)
• Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (J. K. Rowling book)
• His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman book)
• His life's an open book
• How To Win Friends And Influence People (Dale Carnegie book)
• How are the mighty fallen
• How long, O Lord, how long?
• I Capture The Castle (Dodie Smith book)
• I can read you like a book
• I don't know him from Adam
• I have it on good authority
• Imagine no religion, it's easy if you try
• In the beginning was the word
• It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
• It's better to give than to receive
• Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte book)

• Jesus H Christ
• Jesus Shuttlesworth (Nickname of Ray Allen)
• Jesus saves
• Jesus saves green shield stamps
• Jesus wept
• Kane And Abel (Jeffrey Archer book)
• Lamb to the slaughter
• Last will and testament
• Leading authority
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos De Laclos book)
• Let not the sun go down on your wrath
• Let there be light
• Little Women (Louisa May Alcott book)
• Little black book
• Living off the fat of the land
• Lord Of The Flies (William Golding book)
• Lord Of The Rings (J R R Tolkien book)
• Love thy neighbour as thyself
• Man does not live by bread alone
• Many are called but few are chosen
• Memoirs Of A Geisha (Arthur Golden book)
• Mr. Midshipman Easy (Frederick Marryat book)
• Multitude of sins
• My cup runneth over
• Never judge a book by its cover
• New wine in old bottles
• Nigerian Nightmare (Nickname of Christian Okoye)
• Night Watch (Terry Pratchett book)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell book)
• No rest for the wicked
• Notes From The Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky book)
• Noughts And Crosses (book series by Malorie Blackman)
• O ye, of little faith
• Of Mice And Men (John Steinbeck book)
• On The Origin Of Species (Charles Darwin book)
• On The Road (Jack Kerouac book)
• On oath
• One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez book)
• One for the book
• Onward Christian soldiers
• Open book
• Organised religion
• Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read (Groucho Marx line)
• Peace be with you
• Physician heal thyself
• Play it by the book
• Purple Jesus (Nickname of Adrian Peterson)
• Raise Cain
• Religion is the opiate of the masses (Karl Marx quotation)
• Root of the matter
• Round Ireland With A Fridge (Tony Hawks book)
• Salt of the earth
• Sour grapes
• Spare the rod and spoil the child
• Suffer the little children
• Sunday Christian
• Swallows And Amazons (children's adventure story by Arthur Ransome)
• Swear on a stack of bibles
• Talking Book (Stevie Wonder album)
• Tess Of The D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy book)
• Thank you Jesus
• The Age Of Reason (Jean Paul Sartre book)
• The Art Of The Deal (Donald Trump slogan and book title)
• The BFG - Big Friendly Giant (Roald Dahl book)
• The Basketball Jesus (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Bible Belt
• The Buddha Of Suburbia (Hanif Kureishi book)
• The Catcher in the Rye (J D Salinger book)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas book)
• The Day Of The Jackal (Frederick Forsyth book)
• The Devil Wears Prada (Lauren Weisberger book)
• The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce book)
• The Donkey (Nickname of Adam Dunn)
• The Famous Five (characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book)
• The French Have A Word For It (Josh Lanyon book)
• The Garden Of Eden (Ernest Hemingway book)
• The Ghost In The Machine (Arthur Koestler book)
• The Go-Between (L. P. Hartley book)
• The God Of Small Things (Arundhati Roy book)
• The God Squad (enthusiastic Christian believers)
• The Godfather (Mario Puzo book)
• The Good Book
• The Good Shepherd
• The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald book)
• The Greatest Story Ever Told (Charlton Heston movie)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams book)
• The Hobbit (J R R Tokien book)
• The Hound Of The Baskervilles (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle book)
• The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins book)
• The Hypochondriac's Guide To Life And Death (Gene Weingarten book)
• The Importance Of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde book)
• The Jungle Book (Disney cartoon movie)
• The Last Judgment
• The Magic Christian (Peter Sellers / Ringo Starr movie)
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales (Oliver Sacks book)
• The Mirror Cracked From Side To Side (Agatha Christie book title)
• The Name Of The Rose (Umberto Eco book)
• The Odyssey (Homer book)
• The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde book)
• The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan book)
• The Princess Diaries (Meg Cabot book)
• The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe book)
• The Rape Of The Lock (Alexander Pope book)
• The Riddle Of The Sands (Erskine Childers book)
• The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett book)
• The Stache (Nickname of Adam Morrison)
• The Statue of Christ the Redeemer (tourist attraction in Rio de Janeiro Brazil)
• The Story Of Tracy Beaker (children's story by Jacqueline Wilson)
• The Ten Commandments (Charlton Heston movie)
• The Tenderness Of Wolves (Stef Penney book)
• The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCollough book)
• The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas book)
• The Whore of Babylon (a Christian figure of evil and corruption)
• The Wind in the Willows (children's book by Kenneth Grahame)
• The Woman In White (Wilkie Collins book)
• The animals went in two by two
• The apple of his eye
• The blind leading the blind
• The favoured of the Lord
• The love of money is the root of all evil
• The patience of Job
• The powers that be
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• The scales have fallen from my eyes
• The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
• The truth shall set you free
• The wages of sin is death
• The writing is on the wall
• Thorn in my side
• Thorn in the flesh
• Thou shalt not kill
• Through The Looking Glass, And What Alice Found There (Lewis Carroll book)
• Throw the book at someone
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John Le Carre book)
• To cast the first stone
• Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson book)
• Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray book)
• Vicky Angel (children's book by Jacqueline Wilson)
• War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy book)
• Watership Down (Richard Adams book)
• We Need To Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver book)
• We answer to a higher authority (Hebrew National hot dogs advertising slogan)
• What God has joined together let no man put asunder
• What would Jesus do?
• Winnie the Pooh (children's book by A A Milne)
• Woe is me
• World authority
• Would you Adam and Eve it? (Cockney rhyming slang for would you believe it?)
• Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte book)
• You can't tell a book by looking at its cover
• You cannot serve God and Mammon