Church Phrases

Phrases

• Abbey Road (The Beatles album)
• Abide with me (hymn traditionally sung at the English football Cup Final)
• As nervous as a whore in church
• As poor as a church mouse
• As the actress said to the bishop
• Bash the bishop
• Be It Ever So Humble There's No Place Like Home (John Howard Payne and Sir Henry Bishop song)
• Because life's complicated enough (Abbey National advertising slogan)
• Bless his/her cotton socks
• Bless my soul
• Body building
• Born within the sound of Bow Bells
• Building castles in the air
• Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela (tourist attraction in Spain)
• Chapel hat pegs
• Chartres Cathedral (tourist attraction in France)
• Chef de mission
• Cross the aisle
• Curate's egg
• Doubting Thomas (Nickname of Saint Thomas)
• Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been (Beatles song lyric)
• Elvis has left the building
• Empire State Building
• Far better for being near to you (The Chesham Building Society advertising slogan)
• Font of all knowledge
• Frasier has left the building (A catchphrase from Frasier)
• Get religion
• Get the Abbey habit (Abbey National advertising slogan)
• God bless America
• God bless you
• Good morning, Mr. Phelps (A catchphrase from Mission Impossible)
• Happy clappy
• High church
• How con-veen-ient! (A catchphrase from The Church Lady In Saturday Night Live)
• If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands
• Imagine no religion, it's easy if you try
• Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (Harrison Ford / Steven Speilberg movie)
• Investments with Abbey endings (Abbey National Building Society advertising slogan)
• Lead someone to the altar
• Let us pray
• Man on a mission
• Man with a mission
• Mission Accomplished (Political slogan)
• Mission Impossible (Tom Cruise movie and television series title)
• Mission accomplished
• Mission creep
• Mission critical
• More tea vicar?
• Mother church
• No no no no no no yes (A catchphrase from The Vicar Of Dibley)
• No saint
• Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen novel)
• Not a penny to bless yourself with,
• Notre Dame Cathedral (tourist attraction in Paris France)
• On a mission
• Onward Christian soldiers
• Oranges and lemons say the bells of Saint Clements (line from nursery rhyme)
• Organised religion
• Original sin
• Paddy's Wigwam (Nickname of The Roman Catholic Cathedral Liverpool)
• Pray tell
• Praying at the porcelain altar
• Religion is the opiate of the masses (Karl Marx quotation)
• Rescue mission
• Revenge mission (an attempt to seek active retribution)
• Shovel ready (a building project in which all the preliminaries have been arranged)
• Singing from the same hymn sheet
• St Paul's Cathedral (tourist attraction in London England)
• Take a pew
• Temple Mount (tourist attraction in Israel)
• The Adventure of the Abbey Grange (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Chrysler Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Conservative Party at prayer (The Church of England)
• The Empire State Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Golden Temple (tourist attraction in India)
• The Moscow on the Mississippi (Nickname of Saint Paul Minnesota)
• The Rat Pack (Nickname of entertainers Dean Martin Sammy Davis Jr Peter Lawford Joey Bishop and Frank Sinatra)
• The Sistine Chapel (tourist attraction in the Vatican City Italy)
• The Vicar of Dibley (BBC comedy television series)
• This tape will self-destruct in five seconds (A catchphrase from Mission Impossible)
• Two on the aisle
• We're with the Woolwich (Woolwich Building Society advertising slogan)
• Westminster Abbey (tourist attraction in London England)
• Your mission, if you choose to accept it ... (A catchphrase from Mission Impossible)