Character Phrases

Phrases

• A Case Of Identity (Sherlock Holmes story)
• A Doll's House (play by Henrik Ibsen)
• A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play (Mars Chocolate advertising slogan)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (Marlon Brando movie)
• A funny thing happened on the way to the theatre
• A person is known by the company he keeps
• A symbol of freedom (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
• Address the ball (golfing term denoting readiness to play)
• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
• Alpha and omega (the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, used as a name for God or Jesus)
• An Ideal Husband (play by Oscar Wilde)
• Angel Cups (Nickname of soap character Marcy Rhoades)
• Angels in America (play by Tony Kushner)
• As naked as nature intended
• Back to nature
• Balance of nature
• Bat Masterson (Nickname of American western character William Barclay Masterson)
• Beauty contest (a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy)
• Beauty parade (a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy)
• Big data
• Billy Liar (Novel and play by Keith Waterhouse and Tom Courtenay / Julie Christie movie)
• Boat person
• Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
• Bubbly personality
• Call of nature
• Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (play by Tennesee Williams and Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Cat person
• Chain letter
• Character assassination
• Character driven fiction
• Child's play
• Chips With Everything (Arnold Wesker play)
• Close of play
• Come out and play
• Crime against nature
• Cult of personality
• Data archaeology
• Data cap
• Data dictionary
• Data integrity
• Data mining
• Data warehousing
• Dead letter
• Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down
• Death of a Salesman (play by Arthur Miller)
• Deep sea data diving
• Desperate Dan (a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The Dandy)
• Displaced person
• Don't play the innocent
• Evening person
• Everything to play for
• Fair play
• Fair play to you
• First among equals (the most senior person in a group of equal rank)
• Force of nature
• Four letter word
• French letter
• Fringe theatre
• Games people play
• Go and play in the traffic
• Have you any last requests? (humorous question asked as though a person was about to be killed)
• He will never play the piano again
• Heavy hitter (A baseball expression meaning a powerful or commanding person)
• Hedda Gabler (play by Henrik Ibsen)
• Hold a mirror up to nature
• Horse play
• How does that play in Peoria?
• Human nature
• I took my harp to the party but no one asked me to play
• Identity crisis
• Identity theft
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• In person
• In play
• In the nature of things
• Individual streak
• It isn't nice to fool mother nature
• It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play (Beatles song lyric)
• It's good to play together (Microsoft Xbox advertising slogan)
• It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game
• Juno and the Paycock (play by Sean O'Casey)
• Kid n' Play (Nickname of Kevin Martin)
• Lady Windermere's Fan (play by Oscar Wilde)
• Let nature take its course
• Letter bomb
• Letter for letter
• Letter perfect
• Letter quality
• Live in your world, play in ours (Sony advertising slogan)
• Long Day's Journey into Night (play by Eugene O'Neil)
• Love play
• Make a play for
• Make great play of
• Man and Superman (play by George Bernard Shaw)
• Morning person
• Mother Courage (play by Bertolt Brecht)
• Mother nature
• Mourning Becomes Electra (play by Eugene O'Neill)
• Nature abhors a vacuum
• Nature or nurture
• Nature trail
• Nature worship
• Nature, red in tooth and claw
• Not my type (not a person one is attracted to)
• O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo (from the play by Shakespeare)
• Out of character
• People person
• Person of interest
• Person to person
• Play Cupid
• Play God
• Play Misty For Me (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Play a blinder
• Play a waiting game
• Play around
• Play ball
• Play both ends against the middle
• Play by ear
• Play by play
• Play by the rules
• Play catch up
• Play catchup
• Play chicken
• Play dead
• Play devil's advocate
• Play dirty
• Play ducks and drakes
• Play fast and loose
• Play favorites
• Play favourites
• Play for keeps
• Play for time
• Play from the tips
• Play gooseberry
• Play hard to get
• Play hardball (A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive)
• Play havoc with
• Play hell
• Play hide the sausage
• Play hookey
• Play it again Sam
• Play it again, Sam (New York State Lottery advertising slogan)
• Play it by the book
• Play it cool
• Play it for laughs
• Play it safe
• Play kissy face
• Play off
• Play possum
• Play safe
• Play second fiddle
• Play silly buggers
• Play softball (A baseball expression meaning to ask easy questions)
• Play the field (- indulge in a series of sexual relationships)
• Play the fool
• Play the game
• Play the old soldier
• Play the percentage game
• Play the race card
• Play the white man
• Play to win
• Play with fire
• Play within a play
• Play your cards right
• Play your part
• Play yourself in
• Playboy of the Western World (play by John Millington Synge)
• Plug and play
• Poison pen letter
• Potty mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• Raw data
• Red letter day
• Roll over and play dead
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play by Tom Stoppard)
• Second nature
• Sex symbol
• She Stoops to Conquer (play by Oliver Goldsmith)
• Somebody somewhere wants a letter from you (British Post Office advertising slogan)
• Split personality
• Sword play
• The Admirable Crichton (Play by J M Barrie and nickname of James Crichton)
• The Boys in the Band (play by Mart Crowley)
• The Cherry Orchard (play by Anton Chekhov)
• The Devil's Disciple (Bernard Shaw play and Burt Lancaster movie)
• The Easter Bunny
• The Famous Five (characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book)
• The Ginger Man (play by JP Donleavy)
• The Glass Menagerie (play by Tennessee Williams)
• The Iceman Cometh (play by Eugene O'Neill)
• The Importance of Being Ernest (play by Oscar Wilde)
• The Mad March Hare
• The Plough and the Stars (play by Sean O'Casey)
• The Purloined Letter
• The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe book)
• The Quare Fellow (play by Brendan Behan)
• The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne story)
• The Scottish play
• The best way of expressing your intelligence (Zenith Data Systems advertising slogan)
• The laws of nature
• The letter of the law
• The nature of the beast
• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid (Jane Austen quotation)
• The play's the thing
• There's only one
• Three letter acronym
• Threepenny Opera (play by Bertolt Brecht)
• To the letter
• Toilet mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• Triple play (A baseball expression denoting the act of making three outs during the same play)
• Two can play at that game
• View from a Bridge (play by Arthur Miller)
• Waiting for Godot (play by Samuel Beckett)
• Wardrobe mistress (a person in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company)
• When the cat's away the mice will play
• Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? (play by Edward Albee)
• You hum it and I'll play it
• Your better nature