Birth Phrases

Phrases

• ...Baby One More Time (Britney Spears album and song)
• A Day In The Life (The Beatles song)
• A Life Less Ordinary (Ewan McGregor / Cameron Diaz movie)
• A Star Is Born (Judy Garland movie)
• A boy's best friend is his mother (Psycho)
• A dog is for life, not just for Christmas
• A good beginning makes a good ending
• A life changing experience
• A life for a life
• A life on the ocean waves
• A man who is tired of London is tired of life
• Accelerate your life (US Navy advertising slogan)
• All human life is there (News Of The World advertising slogan)
• All part of life's rich pattern
• All part of life's rich tapestry
• All walks of life
• Alpha Mom (an ambitious mother who aims to excel at work while raising children)
• Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life (Monty Python's Flying Circus song)
• And baby makes three
• And for the life of me I don't know why (A catchphrase from David Letterman)
• Anything for a quiet life
• Appetite for life
• Are you sitting comfortably? (A catchphrase from Listen With Mother)
• Art imitating life
• Art is long and life is short
• As easy as taking candy from a baby
• As helpless as a baby
• As if your life depended on it
• As large as life
• As large as life and twice as handsome
• As naked as the day you were born
• As smooth as a baby's bottom
• Atom Heart Mother (Pink Floyd album)
• Away in a manger
• Baby Braves (Nickname of a group of Atlanta Braves)
• Baby Bull (Nickname of baseball player Orlando Cepeda)
• Baby Cakes (Nickname of Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby))
• Baby Doc (Nickname of Jean Claude Duvalier)
• Baby Doll (Nickname of boxer Elena Reid)
• Baby Girl (Nickname of boxer Leatitia Robinson)
• Baby Gramps (Nickname of basketball player Greg Oden)
• Baby I Need Your Loving (Four Tops song)
• Baby Jordan (Nickname of basketball player Harold Miner)
• Baby Love (The Supremes song)
• Baby Please Don't Go (Muddy Waters song)
• Baby Shaq (Nickname of Sofoklis Schortsanitis)
• Baby You're A Rich Man (The Beatles song)
• Baby blues
• Baby boomer
• Baby brain (forgetfulness caused by lack of sleep when caring for a newborn)
• Baby bunting
• Baby face
• Baby father
• Baby grand
• Baby needs new shoes
• Baby on board
• Baby shower
• Baby snatcher
• Baby split
• Baby steps
• Baby you can drive my car (Beatles song lyric)
• Baby, you can park my car
• Baby, you're the greatest. (A catchphrase from The Honeymooners)
• Bane of my life
• Because life's complicated enough (Abbey National advertising slogan)
• Because you were born to fly (TAM Brazilian Airlines advertising slogan)
• Begin at the beginning
• Big Baby (Nickname of basketball player Glen Davis)
• Blessed are the cheese makers (line from Monty Python's Life of Brian)
• Born 1820 - Still going strong (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• Born Free (Virginia McKenna movie)
• Born In The U.S.A.(Bruce Springsteen album and song)
• Born On The Fourth Of July (Tom Cruise movie)
• Born This Way (Lady Gaga song)
• Born To Run (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Born Under A Bad Sign (Cream song)
• Born again
• Born and bred
• Born in the purple
• Born loser
• Born on the wrong side of the blanket
• Born on the wrong side of the tracks
• Born out of wedlock
• Born ready
• Born to be wild
• Born under a bad sign
• Born under a lucky star
• Born with a silver spoon in his mouth
• Born within the sound of Bow Bells
• Boston Tar Baby (Nickname of boxer Sam Langford)
• Bread of life
• Breathe new life into
• Breed like flies
• Breed like rabbits
• Bringing Up Baby (Cary Grant / Katharine Hepburn movie)
• Brought into the world
• Build A Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies (Dilbert)
• Bundle of joy
• Calendar year (twelve months beginning from the first of January)
• Can you hear me, mother? (A catchphrase from Sandy Powell)
• Can you tell Stork from butter? (Stork Margarine advertising slogan)
• Cash if you die, cash if you don't (Lloyd's Life Insurance advertising slogan)
• Celebrate the Moments of Your Life (General Foods International Coffee advertising slogan)
• Change of life
• Circle Of Life (Elton John song)
• Come On Baby Light My Fire (The Doors song)
• Contemplate my navel
• Courier Express. Today's delivery problems solved tomorrow (Courier Express advertising slogan)
• Create a storm (Monsoon advertising slogan)
• Cry baby
• Cut the cord
• Cut the umbilical cord
• Day surgery (minor surgery that does not require the patient to stay in hospital overnight)
• Deliver the goods
• Depart this life
• Design for life
• Do you kiss your mother with that mouth
• Do you like hospital food?
• Dog in the manger
• Dog's life
• Don't Worry Baby (Beach Boys song)
• Don't be such a baby
• Don't know your born
• Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom
• Drill, baby, drill
• Drop a sprog
• Earth mother
• Elixir of life
• Every mother's son
• Every time a bell rings, an angel gets it's wings (line from It's A Wonderful Life)
• Face that only a mother could love
• Facts of life
• Finer things of life
• Flavor of Life (Utada Hikaru song)
• For life (Volvo advertising slogan)
• For the rest of your life (Adjustamatic Beds advertising slogan)
• Friends for life
• From the beginning of time
• Fruits of your labour
• Gee, I wish I had a nickel (Life Savers Candy advertising slogan)
• Get a life
• Get on in life
• Gift of life
• Give someone a wide berth
• Give your baby something you never had as a baby. A drier bottom (Pampers advertising slogan)
• Go tell your mother she wants you
• Good for Life! (Dr Pepper advertising slogan)
• Got To Get You Into My Life (The Beatles song)
• Grab life by the horns (Dodge Motors advertising slogan)
• Half life
• Hang on for dear life
• Happy Birthday To You
• Happy event
• Hard labour
• Has it changed your life yet? (Compaq advertising slogan)
• Hasta la vista baby (A catchphrase from Arnold Schwarzeneggar)
• Hatch, match and dispatch
• He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy (line from the movie Life of Brian)
• High born
• High life
• His life's an open book
• Hold on for dear life
• Home delivery
• Honour thy father and mother
• House mother
• I bear a charmed life
• I married my husband for life, not for lunch
• I swear on my mother's life
• I wasn't born yesterday
• I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Bob Dylan song)
• I'll be mother
• Ice, ice baby
• If I've only one life, let me live it as a blonde! (Clairol Hair Colouring advertising slogan)
• If life deals you lemons made lemonade
• If life were like that, you wouldn't need a VISA card (VISA advertising slogan)
• If only everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagen (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying (Bob Dylan song lyric)
• In the beginning was the word
• In the midst of life we are in death
• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on (Robert Frost quotation)
• In your birthday suit
• Into every life a little rain must fall
• Is You Is Or Is You Ain't, My Baby? (Louis Jordan song)
• Is you is or is you ain't, my baby?
• It isn't nice to fool mother nature
• It's A Wonderful Life (James Stewart movie)
• It's All Over Now Baby Blue (Bob Dylan song)
• It's Miller time! (Miller High Life advertising slogan)
• It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
• It's life Jim, but not as we know it (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• It's not the men in your life it's the life in your men that counts
• Just a glint in his father's eye
• Kid tested Mother approved (Kix advertising slogan)
• Kiss of life
• Labour in vain
• Labour intensive
• Labour of love
• Labour pains
• Labour saving device
• Labour under a misapprehension

• Large as life and twice as handsome
• Larger than life
• Lay down your life
• Lead a charmed life
• Lead a dog's life
• Learnt at your mother's knee
• Left holding the baby
• Life On Mars? (David Bowie song)
• Life after death
• Life and death struggle
• Life and limb
• Life and soul of the party
• Life begins at forty
• Life coach
• Life force
• Life goes on
• Life in the fast lane
• Life is a bed of roses
• Life is a sexually transmitted disease
• Life is better Twisted (Tropicana Twister advertising slogan)
• Life is but a vale of tears
• Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon (Woody Allen line)
• Life is just a bowl of cherries
• Life is just one damned thing after another
• Life is our life's Work (Pfizer advertising slogan)
• Life is rosy
• Life is stimulating enough (Like Cola advertising slogan)
• Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans (John Lennon quotation)
• Life is what happens while you are busy doing other things
• Life is what you make it
• Life lesson
• Life of its own
• Life partner
• Life size
• Life support
• Life's a beach
• Life's a bitch then you die
• Life's a breeze
• Life's like that
• Life's little luxuries
• Life's not all beer and skittles
• Life's not all moonlight and roses
• Life's simple pleasures
• Life's too short
• Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
• Like mother used to make
• Live Your Life (T.I. with Rihanna song)
• Live life in Comfort (Comfort fabric softener advertising slogan)
• Love life
• Love of life
• Loves Labour Lost
• Low life
• Made the American Way (Miller High Life advertising slogan)
• Make life difficult
• Mama always said that life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get (line from the movie Forrest Gump)
• Man is born free and is everywhere in chains (philosophical comment by Rousseau)
• Many happy returns (a toast given to someone on their birthday)
• Matter of life and death
• Maybe Baby (Buddy Holly song)
• Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's Maybelline (Maybelline Cosmetics advertising slogan)
• Mikey likes it (Life cereal advertising slogan)
• Million Dollar Baby (Hilary Swank / Clint Eastwood movie)
• Mother Courage (play by Bertolt Brecht)
• Mother Earth
• Mother Russia
• Mother Superior jumped the gun (Beatles song lyric)
• Mother church
• Mother country
• Mother f*cker
• Mother hen
• Mother knows best
• Mother love
• Mother nature
• Mother of God
• Mother ship
• Mother tongue
• Mother's boy
• Mother's help
• My Baby Left Me (Elvis Presley song)
• My one regret in life is that I am not someone else (Woody Allen line)
• Natural born leader
• Navel gazing
• Necessity is the mother of invention
• Never in all my born days
• New arrival (colloquial term for a newborn baby)
• New lease on life
• No music, no life (Tower Records advertising slogan)
• Not for the life of me
• Not on your life
• Not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• Old enough to be your mother
• On The Origin Of Species (Charles Darwin book)
• One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth
• One of life's little ironies
• Partners for life
• Pepsi's got your taste for life (Pepsi advertising slogan)
• Pond life
• Prime of life
• Private life
• Prolongs active life (PAL dog food advertising slogan)
• Pure life (Nestle Aberfoyle Natural Spring Water advertising slogan)
• Risk life and limb
• Rock Your Baby (George McCrae song)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Run For Your Life (The Beatles song)
• Run for your life
• Same day delivery
• Saviour sibling (a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease)
• Say the magic word and win $100 dollars (A catchphrase from Groucho Marx In You Bet Your Life)
• Schooldays are the happiest days of your life
• Separated at birth
• Sex life
• Shouldn't your baby be a Gerber baby? (Gerber Products advertising slogan)
• Simple life
• Sleep like a baby
• Slice of life
• So Farley's, so good (Farley's Baby Food advertising slogan)
• So no one told you life was gonna be this way
• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em
• Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them
• Special hospital (A euphemistic term for a mental hospital)
• Staff of life
• Stand and deliver
• Still life (a form of painting in which inanimate objects are the subject)
• Story of my life
• Such is life
• Sweet Baby James (James Taylor song)
• Take your life
• Take your life in your hands
• Talk to me, baby
• Teeming with life
• Test tube baby
• That's Life (Frank Sinatra song)
• That's life
• The Birth of a Nation (D W Griffith / Lillian Gish movie)
• The Champagne of Beers (Miller High Life advertising slogan)
• The Drive of your life (Peugeot advertising slogan)
• The Hypochondriac's Guide To Life And Death (Gene Weingarten book)
• The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean (Paul Newman movie)
• The Mad Stork (Nickname of Ted Hendricks)
• The beginning of the end
• The best things in life are free
• The breath of life
• The company you keep (New York Life advertising slogan)
• The happiest days of your life
• The life of Riley
• The light of my life
• The love of my life
• The mother of all battles
• The unexamined life is not worth living (philosophical opinion by Socrates)
• The walk of life
• There's life in the old dog yet
• There's no life like it (Canadian Armed Forces advertising slogan)
• There's one born every minute
• This is the life
• This is your life
• Throw the baby out with the bathwater
• Tied to his mother's apron strings
• Time of your life
• To the Manor Born (BBC comedy television series)
• To the life
• To the manner born
• Today is the first day of the rest of your life
• Today something we do will touch your life (Union Carbide and Carbon advertising slogan)
• Too Busy Thinking About My Baby (Marvin Gaye song)
• Too posh to push
• Up and down like the Ottoman Empire (line from Monty Python's Life Of Brian)
• Variety is the spice of life
• War baby (someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier)
• Water of life
• We bring good things to life (General Electric advertising slogan)
• Were you born in a barn?
• Wet behind the ears
• Wet the baby's head
• What a revoltin' development this is (The Life Of Riley)
• What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare (from a poem by Davies)
• Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? (Bette Davis movie)
• When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me (Beatles song lyric)
• When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
• Where there's life, there's Bud (Budweiser Beer advertising slogan)
• Where there's life, there's hope
• Who loves ya baby? (A catchphrase from Kojak)
• Who's she, the cat's mother?
• Wind someone up (deliberately draw attention to something that will create agitation)
• Wishing your life away
• Without music, life would be a mistake (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• Work life balance
• Yorkshire born in Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head
• You Are The Sunshine Of My Life (Stevie Wonder song)
• You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby (Bing Crosby song)
• You are in a Beauty Contest Every Day of your Life (Camay Soap advertising slogan)
• You don't know you are born
• You light up my life
• You shop, we drop (Tesco home delivery advertising slogan)
• You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife (Country Life butter advertising slogan)
• You'll wish you had never been born
• You've come a long way, baby (Virginia Slims Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Your Mother Should Know (The Beatles song)
• Your money or your life