Decade Phrases

Phrases

• A diller, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar
• Advanced in years
• Count to ten
• Donkey's years (Cockney rhyming slang for ears)
• Eight out of ten cats prefer it (Whiskas Cat Food advertising slogan)
• For years we've been making our products as if lives depend on them (Squib drug products advertising slogan)
• Four more years (Presidential election slogan)
• Four score and seven years ago
• Getting on in years
• Golden Years
• Handbags at ten paces
• Hang ten
• Holding back the years
• It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play (Beatles song lyric)
• Light years apart
• No wonder the English have kept cool for 192 years (Gordon's Gin advertising slogan)
• Not in a million years
• One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez book)
• One volunteer is worth ten pressed men
• One year's seeds make seven year weeds
• Perfect ten
• Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
• Seriously ten (Network Ten Australia advertising slogan)
• Seven years' bad luck
• Simply years ahead (Philips advertising slogan)
• Still Crazy After All These Years (Paul Simon song)
• Ten a penny
• Ten green bottles sitting on the wall
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Ten one hundred
• Ten summersets he'll undertake on solid ground (Beatles song lyric)
• The Best Years Of Our Lives (William Wyler movie)
• The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Ten Commandments (Charlton Heston movie)
• The Top Ten
• The Wilderness years
• The act you've known for all these years (Beatles song lyric)
• The mainspring in a Bulova is made to last 256 years or 146 leather straps - whichever comes first (Bulova Watches advertising slogan)
• The roaring twenties
• Three score and ten
• Tonight's top ten list (A catchphrase from David Letterman In The Late Show)
• Wise beyond your years
• Your starter for ten (A catchphrase from University Challenge)