Phrase thesaurus
Boy Phrases
508 phrases and expressions related to "boy".
Phrases
- A Boy Named Sue (Johnny Cash song)
- A Man Called Horse (Richard Harris movie)
- A Man For All Seasons (Paul Schofield / Robert Bolt movie)
- A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man (James Joyce book)
- A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth book)
- A bigger bang for your buck
- A boy's best friend is his mother (Psycho)
- A buck fifty
- A buck well spent (Springmaid Sheets advertising slogan)
- A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
- A dog is a man's best friend
- A drowning man will clutch at a straw
- A good man is hard to find
- A hard man is good to find
- A man after my own heart
- A man among men
- A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client
- A man who is tired of London is tired of life
- A man's got to do what a man's got to do
- A man's man
- A narrow fellow in the grass (from a poem by Emily Dickinson)
- A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
- Action Man (Nickname of Prince Charles)
- Action Man (children's male doll)
- All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
- Anchor man
- Angry white male
- Angry young man
- Are you a man or a mouse?
- Arms and the Man
- As happy as a sandboy
- Ask the Man who Owns One (Packard advertising slogan)
- Atta boy
- Baby You're A Rich Man (The Beatles song)
- Back door man
- Back room boy
- Ballad Of A Thin Man (Bob Dylan song)
- Barbara Ann (Beach Boys song)
- Be your own man
- Beautiful Boy (John Lennon song)
- Behind every great man there's a great woman
- Bhatti boy (slang term for a homosexual)
- Big man on campus
- Billion Dollar Man (Nickname of American politician Henry Nowak)
- Bird Man (Nickname of basketball player Chris Andersen)
- Blossoming youth
- Blue-eyed boy
- Boy made good
- Boy meets girl
- Boy next door
- Boy, is my face red (A catchphrase from David Letterman)
- Boys and their toys
- Boys in blue
- Boys will be boys
- Boys' toys
- Broken man
- Broth of a boy
- Brown Eyes Handsome Man (Jerry Lee Lewis song)
- Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
- Buck House (Nickname of Buckingham Palace)
- Buck naked
- Buck the system
- Buck up
- Buck up your ideas
- Buck's fizz
- Butter and egg man
- California Girls (Beach Boys song)
- Can I do you now, sir? (A catchphrase from It's That Man Again (ITMA))
- Changed man
- Chasing tail (of a man pursuing the female sex)
- Chicken Man (Nickname of baseball player Wade Boggs)
- Child of God
- Child's play
- Cinderella Man (Nickname of boxer James W.Braddock)
- Clean cut boy
- Click go the shears boys
- Clothes maketh the man
- Come on women, man the factories (WWII slogan)
- Cometh the hour, cometh the man
- Company man (a worker especially loyal to the employer he works for)
- Corn and cluck for a buck (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
- Crank That (Soulja Boy) (Soulja Boy Tell 'Em song)
- Dead Man Walking (Helen Prejean book)
- Dead man walking
- Dead white European male (derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation)
- Dead white male
- Deadlier than the male
- Dirty old man
- Do It Again (Beach Boys song)
- Do Right Woman Do Right Man (Aretha Franklin song)
- Dog bites man
- Don't Worry Baby (Beach Boys song)
- Don't have a cow, man (A catchphrase from The Simpsons)
- Don't kick a man when he's down
- Down boy
- Dude up
- Dude, you're gettin' a Dell! (Dell Computer advertising slogan)
- Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise
- Every man Jack
- Every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost
- Every man has his price
- Every mother's son
- Every schoolboy knows
- Fall guy
- Family man
- Fast buck
- Fellow traveller
- Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man
- Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
- Fifty-quid man
- Fight For The Right To Party (Beastie Boys song)
- Fight like a man
- Fine figure of a man
- For he's a jolly good fellow
- For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
- Four for a boy (Magpie nursery rhyme)
- Fun Fun Fun (The Beach Boys song)
- Garbage Man (Nickname of American football player Michael Bradley)
- Gentlemen we can rebuild him. We have the technology. (A catchphrase from Six Million Dollar Man)
- Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight (ABBA lyric)
- Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
- Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself
- Go West young man
- Go on my son
- Go to see a man about a dog
- Go with child
- God Only Knows (Beach Boys song)
- Golden boy
- Good Vibrations (Beach Boys song)
- Good old boys
- Goodnight John Boy (A catchphrase from The Waltons)
- Grand old man
- Guitar Man (Elvis Presley song)
- Guy The Gorilla (Nickname of cricketer Ian Botham)
- Guys And Dolls (Frank Loesser musical)
- Hail fellow well met
- Half Man Half Amazing (Nickname of basketball player Vince Carter)
- Hatchet man
- He's a real nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land (The Beatles song lyric)
- He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy (line from the movie Life of Brian)
- Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
- Heavy with child
- Hello big boy, would you like a nice time?
- Hello boys (Playtex Wonderbra advertising slogan)
- Help Me Rhonda (Beach Boys song)
- Heroes And Villains (Beach Boys song)
- Hey dude
- His father's son
- His own man
- Hit man
- Home For The Holidays (film starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr.)
- Home boy
- Hoochie Coochie Man (Muddy Waters song)
- How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?
- I Get Around (Beach Boys song)
- I Wanna Be Your Man (The Beatles' And Rolling Stones song)
- I'm Your Man (Wham song)
- I'm not half the man I used to be (The Beatles song lyric)
- If man were meant to fly, God would have lowered the fares (American Coach Lines advertising slogan)
- In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king
- Iron Man (Nickname of John Terry)
- Is your man getting enough? (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
- It Takes People Like You To Make People Like Me (Buck Owens song)
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife (the opening line of Pride and Prejudice)
- 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 makes you feel like the man you are (Buick advertising slogan)
- It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken (Perdue Farms advertising slogan)
- It's A Man's World (James Brown song)
- It's frothy man (Cresta advertising slogan)
- It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring
- It's that man again (A catchphrase from ITMA)
- Jack the lad
- Jealous Guy (John Lennon song)
- Jobs for the boys
- Junior miss
- Just a regular guy
- Kandi Man (Nickname of Michael Olowokandi)
- Kick a man when he's down
- Kiss Me Thru the Phone (Soulja Boy Tell 'Em song)
- Lad mag
- Ladies' man
- Leave no child behind (Political slogan)
- Leicester's Favourite Son (Nickname of Gary Lineker)
- Like father, like son
- Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
- Little Deuce Coupe (Beach Boys song)
- Live as man and wife
- Living as man and wife
- Love child
- Lover boy
- Low man on the totem pole
- Macho man
- Magic Man (Nickname of Antonio Tarver)
- Magic Man (Nickname of Paul Malignaggi)
- Make a man out of you
- Male chauvinist pig
- Man In The Long Black Coat (Bob Dylan song)
- Man Of Constant Sorrow (Bob Dylan song)
- Man about town
- Man and Superman (play by George Bernard Shaw)
- Man and boy
- Man and wife
- Man bites dog
- Man date
- Man does not live by bread alone
- Man eater
- Man flu
- Man for all seasons
- Man hater
- Man is born free and is everywhere in chains (philosophical comment by Rousseau)
- Man of God
- Man of a Thousand Faces (Nickname of Lon Chaney)
- Man of few words
- Man of his word
- Man of honour
- Man of letters
- Man of many parts
- Man of straw
- Man of the cloth
- Man of the hour
- Man of the moment
- Man on a mission
- Man on the spot
- Man overboard
- Man proposes, God disposes
- Man the barricades
- Man to man
- Man up
- Man with a mission
- Man with a plan
- Man's best friend
- Man's inhumanity to man
- Manners maketh man
- Marked man
- Memo Man (Nickname of Ramon Sessions)
- Middle man
- Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows
- More bang for your buck
- Mother's boy
- Mr. Tambourine Man (Bob Dylan song)
- Muscle man
- My fellow Americans
- My old man
- My son the doctor
- Nancy boy
- Nine tailors make a man
- No man can serve two masters
- No man is an island
- No man's land
- No more mister nice guy
- Not the ill wind which blows no man to good
- Nowhere Man (The Beatles song)
- Number one son
- Odd fellow
- Oh Boy (Buddy Holly song)
- Omega male
- On me 'ead, son
- On me head son (Invitation to cross a football so that another player can head it)
- One man and his dog
- One man's meat is another man's poison
- One man's trash is another man's treasure
- One man: one vote
- One of the boys
- One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind (Neil Armstrong quotation)
- Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read (Groucho Marx line)
- Oxo gives a meal man appeal (Oxo gravy advertising slogan)
- Pass the Dutchie (Musical Youth song)
- Pass the buck
- Pat a cake, Pat a cake, baker's man, bake me a cake as fast as you can (line from nursery rhyme)
- Plastic Man (Nickname of Stacey Augmon)
- Play the white man
- Poster boy
- Pretty Boy (Nickname of David Carr)
- Pretty Boy (Nickname of Floyd Mayweather Jr.)
- Pretty Boy Floyd (Nickname of Charles Floyd)
- Problem child
- Quick buck
- Red-blooded male
- Rhinestone cowboy
- Rich man poor man beggerman thief
- Right hand man
- Roar, Boys, Roar, It tastes like more, What a flavor, Zippity-zow - its grand - and HOW (Grape-Nuts Flakes Cereal advertising slogan)
- Rocket Man (Elton John song)
- Rootin'est, tootin'est cowboy
- Rough trade
- Sadder and wiser man
- Saturday's child works hard for a living
- Save Your Kisses for Me (Brotherhood of Man song)
- Saviour sibling (a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease)
- Schoolboy crush
- Scouting For Boys (handbook of the scouting movement, written by Robert Baden-Powell)
- Second storey man
- Self-made man
- Send a salami to your boy in the army
- Silver fox (a handsome grey-haired man)
- Sloop John B (Beach Boys song)
- Son of Sam (Nickname of David Berkowitz)
- Son of a gun
- Son of a whore (a bastard, or a general term of abuse)
- Song and dance man
- Sort out men from the boys
- Soul man
- Spare the rod and spoil the child
- Stan the Man (Nickname of Stan Musial)
- Stand By Your Man (Tammy Wynette song)
- Stand up guy
- Steptoe and Son (BBC comedy television series)
- Stick it to the man
- Sticks and snails and puppy dog's tails that's what little boys are made of (line from nursery rhyme)
- Stout fellow
- Strapping young man
- Straw man
- Street Fighting Man (Rolling Stones song)
- Sunday's child is full of grace
- Surfin USA (Beach Boys song)
- Surfin' Safari (The Beach Boys song)
- Take it like a man
- That's my boy
- The Adventure of the Creeping Man (Sherlock Holmes story)
- The Adventure of the Crooked Man (Sherlock Holmes story)
- The All-American Boy (Nickname of Dick Jones)
- The Big Guy (Nickname of Arthur Carlson (Gordon Jump))
- The Bionic Man (Nickname of Gerrie Coetzee)
- The Bird Man of Alcatraz (Nickname of Robert Stroud)
- The Booze Man (Nickname of Carlos Boozer)
- The Boston Strong Boy (Nickname of John L. Sullivan)
- The Boy David (Nickname of English politician David Steel)
- The Boy In The Bubble (Paul Simon song)
- The Boy Wonder (Nickname of Robin)
- The Boys in the Band (play by Mart Crowley)
- The Bully Boys (Nickname of Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and John Belushi)
- The Cheapest Man in the World (Nickname of comedian Jack Benny)
- The Elephant Man (John Hurt / Anthony Hopkins / David Lynch movie)
- The Elephant Man (Nickname of Joseph Merrick)
- The Fabulous Baker Boys (Jeff Bridges / Michelle Pfeiffer movie)
- The Ginger Man (play by JP Donleavy)
- The Golden Boy (Nickname of Billy Walker)
- The Golden Boy (Nickname of Oscar de la Hoya)
- The Golden Boy (Nickname of Paul Hornung)
- The Golden Boy (Nickname of Tom Brady)
- The Hit Man (Nickname of Bob Sanders)
- The Hit Man (Nickname of Ricky Hatton)
- The Hit Man (Nickname of Thomas Hearns)
- The Invisible Man (HG Wells story and later a film)
- The Iron Man (Nickname of Cal Ripken Jr.)
- The Little Big Man (Nickname of Sharmba Mitchell)
- The Little Drummer Boy (Harry Simeone Chorale song)
- The Man Child (Nickname of Dwight Howard)
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (Peter Lorre / Alfred Hitchcock movie)
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales (Oliver Sacks book)
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (James Stewart / John Wayne movie)
- The Man Who Sold The World (David Bowie song)
- The Man Who Was Thursday
- The Man With The Golden Arm (Frank Sinatra movie)
- The Man With The Golden Gun (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
- The Man With Two Brains (Steve Martin movie)
- The Man from Mars (Nickname of Otis Sistrunk)
- The Man in Black (Nickname of singer Johnny Cash)
- The Man in the Iron Mask
- The Man of Many Moods (Nickname of actor Charles Laughton)
- The Man of a Thousand Voices (Nickname of Mel Blanc)
- The Man with the Child in His Eyes (Kate Bush song)
- The Man with the Twisted Lip (Sherlock Holmes story)
- The Manneken Pis (tourist attraction in Belgium)
- The Money Man (Nickname of Mehmet Okur)
- The Mountie always gets his man
- The Old Man And The Sea (Spencer Tracy movie)
- The Potato Man (Nickname of Frank William Tucker (David Proval))
- The Quare Fellow (play by Brendan Behan)
- The Quiet Man (Nickname of John Ruiz)
- The Ragamuffin Man (Nickname of Lloyd Honeyghan)
- The Rain Man (Nickname of Ray Allen)
- The Sick Man of Europe (Nickname of Turkey)
- The Thinking Man's Crumpet (Nickname of Joan Bakewell)
- The Third Man (Orson Welles movie)
- The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
- The Wings of Man (Eastern Airlines advertising slogan)
- The best a man can get (Gillette advertising slogan)
- The bionic man
- The boy is father to the man
- The boy stood on the burning deck
- The buck stops here (A political slogan by Harry S Truman)
- The child is father of the man (from a poem by Wordsworth)
- The crumbs from a rich man's table
- The female of the species is more deadly than the male
- The flower of one's youth
- The fountain of youth
- The little boys' room
- The man from Del Monte says yes (Del Monte advertising slogan)
- The man in black
- The man in the moon
- The man in the street
- The man on the Clapham omnibus
- The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read (Mark Twain quotation)
- The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still (The Beatles song lyric)
- The man you love to hate
- The man, the myth, the legend
- The mark of a man (Old Spice aftershave advertising slogan)
- The proper study of mankind is man (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
- The right man for the job
- The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot
- The sick man of Europe
- The way to a man's heart is through his stomach
- There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile (line from nursery rhyme)
- Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
- This Boy (Beatles song)
- Thursday's child has far to go
- Time and tide wait for no man
- Time waits for no man
- To boldly go where no man has gone before (A catchphrase from Start Trek)
- Tom Tom the pipers son stole a pig and away he ran (line from nursery rhyme)
- Toy boy
- Toys for the boys
- Two buck chuck
- U.S. Male (Elvis Presley song)
- Van The Man (Nickname of Ruud van Nistelrooy)
- Voodoo Child (Jimi Hendrix song)
- Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman! (Coty Perfumes advertising slogan)
- War baby (someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier)
- Wednesday's child has far to go
- What God has joined together let no man put asunder
- What a piece of work is man
- What do you give to a man who has everything?
- What the well-dressed man is wearing this year (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
- What you mean we, white man?
- When A Man Loves A Woman (Percy Sledge song)
- When a man you've never met before suddenly gives you flowers (Impulse deodorant advertising slogan)
- Where a man belongs (Camel Cigarettes advertising slogan)
- Whipping boy
- White man speak with forked tongue
- White man's burden
- White man's watch
- White van man
- Who are you? (Nintendo Game Boy Advance advertising slogan)
- Who was that masked man? (A catchphrase from The Lone Ranger)
- Who's a pretty boy then?
- Who's little boy are you?
- Wide boy
- With child
- Wonder Boys (Michael Douglas movie)
- Would you buy a used car from this man?
- Wouldn't It Be Nice (The Beach Boys song)
- You can trust your car to the man who wears the star (Texaco Fuel advertising slogan)
- You can't cheat an honest man
- You can't keep a good man down
- You dirty old man (A catchphrase from Steptoe and Son)
- You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows
- You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
- You're a better man than I Gunga Din
- You're the man
- You've made an old man very happy
- Youth is wasted on the young
Related
- A Boy Named Sue (Johnny Cash song)
- A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth book)
- A boy's best friend is his mother (Psycho)
- All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
- Atta boy
- Back room boy
- Beautiful Boy (John Lennon song)
- Bhatti boy (slang term for a homosexual)
- Blue-eyed boy
- Boy made good
- Boy meets girl
- Boy next door
- Boy, is my face red (A catchphrase from David Letterman)
- Broth of a boy
- Clean cut boy
- Crank That (Soulja Boy) (Soulja Boy Tell 'Em song)
- Down boy
- Four for a boy (Magpie nursery rhyme)
- Golden boy
- Goodnight John Boy (A catchphrase from The Waltons)
- He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy (line from the movie Life of Brian)
- Hello big boy, would you like a nice time?
- Home boy
- Kiss Me Thru the Phone (Soulja Boy Tell 'Em song)
- Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
- Lover boy
- Man and boy
- Mother's boy
- Nancy boy
- Oh Boy (Buddy Holly song)
- Poster boy
- Pretty Boy (Nickname of David Carr)
- Pretty Boy (Nickname of Floyd Mayweather Jr.)
- Pretty Boy Floyd (Nickname of Charles Floyd)
- Send a salami to your boy in the army
- That's my boy
- The All-American Boy (Nickname of Dick Jones)
- The Boston Strong Boy (Nickname of John L. Sullivan)
- The Boy David (Nickname of English politician David Steel)
- The Boy In The Bubble (Paul Simon song)
- The Boy Wonder (Nickname of Robin)
- The Golden Boy (Nickname of Billy Walker)
- The Golden Boy (Nickname of Oscar de la Hoya)
- The Golden Boy (Nickname of Paul Hornung)
- The Golden Boy (Nickname of Tom Brady)
- The Little Drummer Boy (Harry Simeone Chorale song)
- The boy is father to the man
- The boy stood on the burning deck
- This Boy (Beatles song)
- Toy boy
- Whipping boy
- Who are you? (Nintendo Game Boy Advance advertising slogan)
- Who's a pretty boy then?
- Who's little boy are you?
- Wide boy
- You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)