Common Phrases

Phrases

• A Life Less Ordinary (Ewan McGregor / Cameron Diaz movie)
• A prophet is not recognized in his own land
• A rising tide lifts all boats
• A victory for common sense
• A, B, C, D, E, Your public library has arranged these in ways that make you cry, giggle, laugh, love, hate, wonder, ponder and understand (American Library Association advertising slogan)
• Air your dirty linen in public
• All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (the opening line of Anna Karenina)
• An everyday story of country folk (A catchphrase from The Archers)
• As alike as two peas in a pod
• As common as muck
• As free as a bird
• As rare as rocking horse droppings
• Atilla of the American Continent (Nickname of General William Sherman)
• Below the salt
• Born Free (Virginia McKenna movie)
• Break out of the ordinary (Nestle's Butterfinger advertising slogan)
• Butcher of the Somme (Nickname of General Douglas Haig)
• Buy one, get one free
• Calorie free
• Celebrate the Moments of Your Life (General Foods International Coffee advertising slogan)
• Cloud cuckoo land
• Common ground
• Common or garden
• Common sense
• Everyday Eddie (Nickname of baseball player Eddie Guardado)
• Factory outlet (a shop where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
• Factory shop (a retail outlet where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
• Fairytale ending (a happy simplistic ending to a story similar to those found in fairy tales)
• Fancy free
• Footloose and fancy free
• For free
• Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
• Free Nelson Mandela
• Free and easy
• Free at last, thank God Almighty, I'm free at last
• Free enterprise with every issue (The Economist advertising slogan)
• Free for all
• Free form
• Free hand
• Free period
• Free range
• Free rein
• Free spirit
• Free trade
• Free will
• Free, gratis, and for nothing
• From the Land of Sky-Blue Waters (Hamm's Beer advertising slogan)
• GNU is Not Unix (Free Software Foundation advertising slogan)
• General knowledge
• General purpose
• General release
• Get out of jail free
• Get out of jail free card (a means of avoiding justice - from the eponymous card in the Monopoly boardgame)
• Go public
• Great Land (Nickname of the US state of Alaska)
• Great minds think alike
• Ground ball (A baseball expression meaning a prosaic or ordinary accomplishment)
• Hands free
• He's a real nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land (The Beatles song lyric)
• Home free
• I'm free! (A catchphrase from Mr Humphries In Are You Being Served?)
• I'm smarter than the average bear! (A catchphrase from The Yogi Bear Show)
• Imagination at Work (General Electric advertising slogan)
• In the land of Nod
• In the land of the living
• In the public eye
• It doesn't take a minute to bag it and bin it (UK public advertisement advertising slogan)
• It's a free country
• Joe Public
• Klunk! Klick, every trip (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
• La la land
• Land ahoy
• Land grab
• Land locked
• Land of hope and glory
• Land of make believe
• Land of milk and honey
• Land of nod
• Land of the pharaohs
• Land office business
• Land on your feet
• Land up in
• Land's sake
• Least common denominator
• Lend a hand on the land (WWII slogan)
• Little General (Nickname of Avery Johnson)
• Live free or die
• Living off the fat of the land
• Lowering prices forever, that's Comet sense (Comet Electrical Stores advertising slogan)
• Make free with
• Man is born free and is everywhere in chains (philosophical comment by Rousseau)
• More human interest (Washington Mutual advertising slogan)
• Mutual advantage
• Mutual attraction
• Mutual fund
• Never never land
• No man's land
• Normal service has been resumed
• Nothing in common
• Nothing is ever free
• Olly olly oxen free
• Prince of Mid Air (Nickname of World B.Free)
• Progress is our most important product (General Electric advertising slogan)
• Public Enemy Number One (Nickname of John Dillinger)
• Public enemy
• Public sector
• Rare bird
• Rockin' In The Free World (Neil Young song)
• Scot free
• Share and share alike
• Situation normal, all f*cked up
• Sooner or later, you'll own Generals (General Tires Corp advertising slogan)
• Starch free as a chip can be (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• Stone Free (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Stormin' Norman (Nickname of General Norman Schwarzkopf)
• The Free State (Nickname of the US state of Maryland)
• The Land of The Rising Sun (Nickname of Japan)
• The Ordinary Superstar (Nickname of Johnny Rodgers)
• The Waste Land
• The best things in life are free
• The common good
• The common touch
• The great unwashed
• The land of Nod
• The land of the free
• The land that time forgot
• The law of the land
• The lay of the land
• The leader of the free world
• The length and breadth of the land
• The lie of the land
• The people's choice (a person or thing chosen by public acclamation)
• The public domain
• The public purse
• The truth shall set you free
• There's no such thing as a free lunch
• Think once, think twice, think bike (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
• This Hard Land (Bruce Springsteen song)
• This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie song)
• Thus far into the bowels of the land
• Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking
• Universal appeal
• Universal favourite (Gordon's Gin advertising slogan)
• Walk free
• Wash your dirty linen in public
• We bring good things to life (General Electric advertising slogan)
• Weapons free
• Why buy the cow when the milk is free?
• Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopaedia (Wikipedia advertising slogan)
• You are now free to move about the country (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)