Chief Phrases

Phrases

• A World first
• A big shot
• A head for business and a body for sin
• Above my head
• Acid head
• After the Lord Mayor's parade
• Ain't my first rodeo (said by someone who has experience of a situation)
• Air head
• As mad as a bear with a sore head
• At first blush
• At first hand
• Bang your head against a brick wall
• Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head (The Beatles song lyric)
• Be it on your head
• Be the first to know (CNN advertising slogan)
• Big white chief
• Bite someone's head off
• Bone head
• Boss about
• Boss eyed
• Boss of all bosses
• Bring to a head
• Bringing it home to me (Prime Television advertising slogan)
• Bury your head in the sand
• Butt head
• Calendar year (twelve months beginning from the first of January)
• Can't Get You Out of My Head (Kylie Minogue song)
• Can't make head or tail of it
• Captain America (Nickname of footballer Claudio Reyna)
• Captain Bly (Nickname of baseball player Bert Blyleven)
• Captain Bob (Nickname of Robert Maxwell)
• Captain Brassbound's Conversion
• Captain Canada (Nickname of basketball player Steve Nash)
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Louis de Bernieres book)
• Captain Crunch (Nickname of basketball player Jalen Rose)
• Captain Funkie Fresh (Nickname of Eddie Winslow (Darius McCrary))
• Captain Hook (Nickname of baseball manager George Anderson)
• Captain Jack (Nickname of basketball player Stephen Jackson)
• Captain Kirk (Nickname of basketball player Kirk Hinrich)
• Captain Marvel (Nickname of footballer Bryan Robson)
• 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)
• Captain of industry
• Captain's log... (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• Cast the first stone
• Chief cook and bottle washer
• Chief of staff
• Come to a head
• Couldn't make head or tail of it
• Cut someone down in their prime
• Dief the Chief (Nickname of John Diefenbaker)
• Digital leader
• Do your head in
• Don't mess with my head
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Eyes in the back of your head
• Fearless leader
• First Among Equals (Jeffrey Archer book)
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• First World (the indutrialised affluent and wealthy nations)
• First World problem (a relatively trivial problem only affecting the affluent)
• First among equals (the most senior person in a group of equal rank)
• First amongst equals
• First and foremost
• First blood
• First came to fame
• First catch your hare
• First come first served
• First comes love, then comes marriage
• First contact
• First cut
• First flush
• First footing (making a round of visits at New Year)
• First impressions last
• First light
• First past the post
• First rate
• First relationships last (First National Bank of Chicago advertising slogan)
• First responder (the member of the emergency services to arrive at a disaster)
• First strike
• First thing
• First things first
• First time caller
• First to market
• First up
• First with the Hits (Mercury Records advertising slogan)
• First, do no harm
• Fish always rot from the head downwards
• Fountain head
• Full head of hair
• Funny in the head
• Get it into your head
• Get to first base
• Get to first base with
• Get your head around something
• Get your head down
• Get your head together
• Get your retaliation in first
• Go and boil your head
• Go boil your head
• Go to your head
• Good head on his shoulders
• Got your head screwed on
• Hail to the chief
• Hang your head
• Hanging over your head
• Have a Captain Cook (Cockney rhyming slang for look)
• Have your head examined
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• Head and shoulders above
• Head banger
• Head case
• Head count
• Head doctor
• Head first
• Head for figures
• Head for heights
• Head for the Border (Taco Bell Restaurants advertising slogan)
• Head for the hills
• Head for the mountains (Busch Beer advertising slogan)
• Head games
• Head honcho
• Head hunting
• Head in the clouds
• Head in the sand
• Head like a sieve
• Head of hair
• Head of steam
• Head of the family
• Head of the household
• Head off
• Head on
• Head on collision
• Head over heels in love
• Head start
• Head them off at the pass
• Head to head
• Head to toe
• Head up
• Head wind
• Heap coals of fire on someone's head
• Hit the nail on the head

• Hold a gun to his head
• Hold the field (- remain the most important)
• Hold up your head
• Hold your head up high
• I Predict A Riot (Kaiser Chiefs song)
• I could do that standing on my head
• I never knew you had dandruff (Head and Shoulders shampoo advertising slogan)
• I'm Ross, and you're the Boss (Ross Perot slogan)
• If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again
• If you ain't first, you're last
• If you can keep your head when all about you (from a poem by Kipling)
• If you change your mind, I'm the first in line (ABBA lyric)
• In over your head
• In your prime
• Iowa's Leading Edge (Nickname of Council Bluffs Iowa)
• Keep a civil tongue in your head
• Keep a cool head
• Keep your head
• Keep your head above water
• Keep your head down
• Knock it on the head
• Knuckle head
• La Belle Epoque (the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World War)
• Ladies first
• Last in first out
• Laugh your head off
• Leader of the pack
• Leading authority
• Leading edge
• Leading fashion hub
• Leading indicator
• Leading light
• Leading question
• Leadoff hitter (A baseball expression denoting the player who bats first)
• Level head
• Like a chicken with its head cut off
• Loaf of bread (Cockney rhyming slang for head)
• Lose your head
• Loss leader
• Love at first sight
• Main chance
• Main event
• Main squeeze
• Make first base
• Make your head spin
• Me first
• Meat head
• Might and main
• My head is spinning
• Natural born leader
• Need your head examined
• Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish (Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band song)
• Not right in the head
• Nothing to worry your pretty little head about
• Number 10 Downing Street (address of the British Prime Minister)
• Of the first water
• Off the top of my head
• Off with his head
• Off your head
• Old head on young shoulders
• On me head son (Invitation to cross a football so that another player can head it)
• On your own head be it
• Only the best for the Captain's table (Birdseye advertising slogan)
• Opening night (the first night of a theatrical performance)
• Out of your head
• Over your head
• Pecker head
• Petrol head
• Pinch, punch, first of the month
• Pointy head
• Pot head
• Price on his head
• Prime condition (in perfect shape)
• Prime cut
• Prime of life
• Prime time
• Progress is our most important product (General Electric advertising slogan)
• Propeller head
• Puddin' Head (Nickname of Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan))
• Puddin' Head (Nickname of Willie Jones)
• Pull your head in
• Put a gun to your head
• Put your head above the parapet
• Put your head into the lion's mouth
• Put your head on the block
• Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (Burt Bacharach song)
• Safety first
• Self important
• Shoot first, ask questions later
• Sleepy head
• Snap someone's head off
• Soft in the head
• Sorry about that, Chief. (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• Stand it on its head
• Strong in the arm and thick in the head
• Take it into your head
• Take me to your leader
• Talk over your head
• Talking head
• The Boss (Nickname of Bruce Springsteen)
• The Captain (Nickname of Kareem Abdul Jabbar)
• The Chief (Nickname of Robert Parish)
• The First Cut Is The Deepest (Rod Stewart song)
• The First Garden City Of The World (Nickname of Letchworth England)
• The First Lady of Television (Nickname of Faye Emerson)
• The First State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
• The Head Ball Coach (Nickname of Steve Spurrier)
• The Mayor (Nickname of Fred Hoiberg)
• The Mayor (Nickname of Sean Casey)
• The Peerless Leader (Nickname of Frank Chance)
• The Prime Minister of Mirth (Nickname of George Robey)
• The blind leading the blind
• The first network for men (Spike TV advertising slogan)
• The first time is never the best (Campari advertising slogan)
• The leader of the free world
• The main drag
• The main event
• The mainspring in a Bulova is made to last 256 years or 146 leather straps - whichever comes first (Bulova Watches advertising slogan)
• Throw a beanball (A baseball expression meaning to attack an opponent by aiming at their head)
• To cast the first stone
• Today is the first day of the rest of your life
• Too many chiefs and not enough indians
• Towel head (derogatory slang term referring to an Arab man)
• Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
• Upon your head be it
• Wet the baby's head
• What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
• When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
• Where the rubber meets the road (where the important facts or realities lie)
• Which came first the chicken or the egg?
• Who blinked first?
• Win by a head
• Women and children first
• World leader
• World ruler
• World's first
• Yorkshire born in Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head
• You don't get a second chance at a first impression
• You heard it here first
• You only get one chance to make a first impression
• You would forget your head if it weren't screwed on
• You're the boss (Burger King advertising slogan)
• Your fragrance Your rules (Hugo Boss Deep Red advertising slogan)