Current Phrases

Phrases

• A Bouquet Of Barbed Wire (Andrea Newman book)
• A New Hope (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• A day without orange juice is like a day without sunshine (Florida Citrus Commission advertising slogan)
• A new broom sweeps clean
• Ads work harder in the new Granada (Granada advertising slogan)
• All present and correct
• All the news that's fit to print (New York Times advertising slogan)
• As bright as a new pin
• As good as new
• As neat as a new pin
• At sixty miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock (Rolls Royce advertising slogan)
• Baby needs new shoes
• Better than new
• Bison City (Nickname of Buffalo New York)
• Bluff charge (A movement towards by an animal towards its prey which is halted without attacking)
• Border Town (Nickname of Rye New York)
• Brand new
• Brand new ballgame (A baseball expression meaning when a team that has been behind ties up the game)
• Brand new dawn
• Brand new day
• Brand spanking new
• Brave New World (Aldous Huxley book)
• Break new ground
• Breathe new life into
• Brown out (partial loss of electricity)
• Cactus juice
• Central Park (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Chip and charge
• Clear and present danger
• Cow juice
• Currant bun (Cockney rhyming slang for sun)
• Current events
• Dawn of a new day
• Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick book)
• Don't put new wine into old bottles
• Down to the wire
• Drive by wire
• Ebb and flow
• Elm City (Nickname of New Haven Connecticut)
• Emotion charged
• First footing (making a round of visits at New Year)
• Fly by wire
• Go down to the wire
• Go with the flow
• Gotham City (Nickname of New York)
• Grey is new black
• Happy New Year
• Harry spankers (colloquial version of 'brand spanking new')
• High wire act
• I love New York
• I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (The New Seekers song)
• I'm in charge (A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth)
• Imagination at Work (General Electric advertising slogan)
• In full flow
• In real time
• It's not just for breakfast anymore (Florida Orange Juice Growers Association advertising slogan)
• Juice of the grape
• Jungle juice
• Kodak City (Nickname of Rochester New York)
• Little New York (Nickname of Carmelo Anthony)
• Live wire
• Many happy returns (IBM Electric Typewriters advertising slogan)
• Miracle of modern science
• Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin movie)
• Nearly new
• New Deal (Franklin Roosevelt's social and economic reform)
• New Economy
• New York minute
• New York's finest
• New age travellers
• New arrival (colloquial term for a newborn baby)
• New blood
• New doors opened (Mercury advertising slogan)
• New fangled
• New kid on the block
• New lease on life
• New money
• New start
• New wine in old bottles
• New wrinkle
• New year's resolution
• Out with the old in with the new
• Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown song)
• Pastures new
• Play it again, Sam (New York State Lottery advertising slogan)
• Post modern
• Present company excepted
• Progress is our most important product (General Electric advertising slogan)
• Reach new heights
• Read my lips, no new taxes (Political slogan)
• Recent unpleasantness
• Ring out the old and ring in the new
• Seesaw Margery Daw Johnny shall have a new master (line from nursery rhyme)
• Snapshot City (Nickname of Rochester New York)
• Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
• Stew in your own juice
• Take charge
• Tech savvy (proficient with new technologies)
• That's a new one on me
• The All Blacks (Nickname of the New Zealand Rugby Union team)
• The Armpit Of New Jersey (Nickname of Newark New Jersey)
• The Brooklyn Bridge (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Chrysler Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The City That Never Sleeps (Nickname of New York)
• The Cradle Of Aviation (Nickname of Hammondsport New York)
• The Edinburgh Of The South (Nickname of Dunedin New Zealand)
• The Empire State (Nickname of the US state of New York)
• The Empire State Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Flying Squad (Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard)
• The Foreigner State (Nickname of the US state of New Jersey)
• The Garden State (Nickname of the US state of New Jersey)
• The Gong (Nickname of Wollongong New South Wales)
• The Granite State (Nickname of the US state of New Hampshire)
• The Heart Of The New West (Nickname of Calgary Alberta)
• The Juice (Nickname of O.J.Simpson)
• The New Statesman (BBC comedy television series)
• The New York Of The South (Nickname of Atlanta Georgia)
• The New York of the South (Nickname of Galveston Texas)
• The North Of Bombay Hill (Nickname of Auckland New Zealand)
• The Rockefeller Centre (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Statue of Liberty (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The company you keep (New York Life advertising slogan)
• The emperor's new clothes
• The future is now
• The game is afoot
• The new black
• The shock of the new
• There's no time like the present
• There's nothing new under the sun
• Thoroughly Modern Milly (Julie Andrews movie)
• Times Square (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• Tough Juice (Nickname of Caron Butler)
• Turn over a new leaf
• Under new management
• Under the wire
• Wardrobe mistress (a person in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company)
• We bring good things to life (General Electric advertising slogan)
• What's New Pussycat? (Peter Sellers movie)
• What's new?
• Whole new ball game
• You can't teach an old dog new tricks
• You give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world (WINS Radio, New York advertising slogan)
• You're My Heart, You're My Soul (Modern Talking song)