Deed Phrases

Phrases

• A class act
• A drowning man will clutch at a straw
• A friend in need is a friend indeed
• Accidents will happen
• Act of God
• Act out
• Act the fool
• Act the giddy goat
• Act the part
• Act up
• Act white
• Act your age
• Action Jackson (Nickname of Stephen Jackson)
• Action Man (Nickname of Prince Charles)
• Action Man (children's male doll)
• Action packed
• Action painting
• Action plan
• Action replay
• Action stations
• Affirmative action
• Against your will
• All I know is what I read in the papers (Will Rogers quotation)
• Amped up (excited and ready for action)
• Balancing act
• Bend to my will
• Blood will out
• Boys will be boys
• Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door
• Business is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
• Call to action
• Carry into action
• Caught in the act
• Class act
• Clean up your act
• Cooler heads will prevail
• Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
• Danger, Will Robinson (A catchphrase from The Robot In Lost In Space)
• Deeds not words
• Do a disappearing act
• Double act
• Even a worm will turn
• Faith will move mountains
• Flattery will get you everywhere
• Flattery will get you nowhere
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
• For the benefit of Mr.Kite there will be a show tonight on trampoline (Beatles song lyric)
• Free will
• Get in on the act
• Get your act together
• Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It (Will Smith song)
• Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself
• Hard act to follow
• Have gun, will travel (A catchphrase from TV series)
• He will give the Devil his due
• He will never play the piano again
• Heads will roll
• High culture (refined artistic or intellectual achievement)
• High wire act
• Human Rights Act
• I Will Always Love You (Whitney Houston song)
• I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor song)
• I will if you will
• I will make you fishers of men
• I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
• If I tell you I will have to shoot you
• If anything can go wrong, it will
• If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve
• If you build it they will come
• If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything (Malcolm X quotation)
• If you got the munchies, nothing else will do! (Hostess potato chips advertising slogan)
• If you keep late hours for Society's sake, Bromo-Seltzer will cure that headache (Bromo-Seltzer advertising slogan)
• If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas
• Ill will
• In on the act
• Industrial action
• It will all end in tears
• It will be all right on the night
• It will blow over
• Keep the shop and the shop will keep you
• Last will and testament

• Lights, camera, action
• Listen I will say zis only wunce (A catchphrase from Allo Allo)
• Live action
• Live today. Tomorrow will cost more (Pan-Am World Airways advertising slogan)
• Living will
• Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves
• Love will find a way
• Missing in action
• Murder will out
• My Heart Will Go On (Celine Dion song)
• Never had it, never will (7-Up advertising slogan)
• No good deed goes unpunished
• No mean feat
• Only time will tell
• Out of action
• Phone it in (perform an act in an uncommitted disinterested manner)
• Piece of the action
• Play hardball (A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive)
• Pontiac: Designed for Action (Pontiac advertising slogan)
• Put on an act
• Random act of kindness
• Read the riot act
• Ready and waiting (alert and prepared for action)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Sister Act (Whoopie Goldberg movie)
• Slice of the action
• Smoke Craven 'A' - will not affect your throat (Craven 'A' Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Some day my prince will come
• Some day my prints will come
• Spring into action
• Stand-by for action
• Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
• Stop, or my mom will shoot (line from Sylvestor Stallone movie)
• Sub-prime mortgage
• Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves
• That and a nickel will get you a ride on the subway
• The Last Action Hero (Arnold Schwarzenegger movie)
• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Gil Scott-Heron song)
• The Thrill (Nickname of Will Clark)
• The act you've known for all these years (Beatles song lyric)
• The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner (9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan)
• The court will rise
• The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on
• The truth will out
• There are none so blind as those that will not see
• There will be an answer, let it be (The Beatles song lyric)
• There will be tears before bedtime
• There's none so blind as those who will not see
• There's none so deaf as they that will not hear
• They will do anything
• Think global, act local
• Think globally, act locally (Friends of the Earth advertising slogan)
• This one will run and run
• This tape will self-destruct in five seconds (A catchphrase from Mission Impossible)
• This time next year we will be millionaires (A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses)
• Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas
• Throw enough dirt and some will stick
• Time will tell
• Today something we do will touch your life (Union Carbide and Carbon advertising slogan)
• Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest
• Tour de force (a feat of strength power or skill)
• Triple play (A baseball expression denoting the act of making three outs during the same play)
• We Will Rock You (Queen song)
• We will cross that bridge when we come to it
• We will fight on the beaches
• We will sell no wine before it is time (Paul Masson Wines advertising slogan)
• What will you do with all the money you save? (Toyota advertising slogan)
• Whatever will be will be
• When better automobiles are built, Buick will build them (Buick advertising slogan)
• When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
• When the cat's away the mice will play
• When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash
• Where there's a will there's a way
• Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?
• Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? (Carole King song)
• Will do
• Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
• Will the real ... stand up? (A catchphrase from To Tell The Truth)
• Wind someone up (deliberately draw attention to something that will create agitation)
• With the best will in the world
• Without us, some guys will starve (Carl's Jr. advertising slogan)
• Your good deed for the day