Degree Phrases

Phrases

• A World first
• Act the part
• Ain't my first rodeo (said by someone who has experience of a situation)
• All over the show
• All part of life's rich pattern
• All part of life's rich tapestry
• All the taste, 1/3 of the calories (Pepsi Max advertising slogan)
• Am I bovvered? (A catchphrase from The Catherine Tate Show)
• America's Oldest Living Teenager (Nickname of game show host Dick Clark)
• An American In Paris (Irving Berlin tune title and Gene Kelly movie)
• At first blush
• At first hand
• Be the first to know (CNN advertising slogan)
• Best in show
• Bits per second
• Boutros Boutros Ghali (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Burn After Reading (George Clooney movie)
• Burn a hole in your pocket
• Burn in hell
• Burn rubber
• Burn the candle at both ends
• Burn the midnight oil
• Burn up the track
• Burn with curiosity
• Burn your boats
• Burn your bra
• Burn your bridges
• Burn your fingers
• Burn yourself out
• But for my own part, it was Greek to me
• Calendar year (twelve months beginning from the first of January)
• Cast the first stone
• Cattle show
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Chinese burn
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Richard Dreyfuss movie)
• Crash and burn
• Dark Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• Deep Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• Desmond Tutu (Cockney rhyming slang for Second class degree (2,2))
• Discretion is the better part of valour
• Does my bum look big in this? (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Dog and pony show
• Don't burn your bridges behind you
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• Energy to burn
• Enjoy the Show (E! Entertainment Television advertising slogan)
• Fahrenheit 451 (Julie Christie / Francois Truffaut movie)
• Father Knows Best (American TV Show)
• Feel the burn
• First Among Equals (Jeffrey Archer book)
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• First World (the indutrialised affluent and wealthy nations)
• First World problem (a relatively trivial problem only affecting the affluent)

• First among equals (the most senior person in a group of equal rank)
• First amongst equals
• First and foremost
• First blood
• First came to fame
• First catch your hare
• First come first served
• First comes love, then comes marriage
• First contact
• First cut
• First flush
• First footing (making a round of visits at New Year)
• First impressions last
• First light
• First past the post
• First rate
• First relationships last (First National Bank of Chicago advertising slogan)
• First responder (the member of the emergency services to arrive at a disaster)
• First strike
• First thing
• First things first
• First time caller
• First to market
• First up
• First with the Hits (Mercury Records advertising slogan)
• First, do no harm
• For my, part
• For the benefit of Mr.Kite there will be a show tonight on trampoline (Beatles song lyric)
• Get the show on the road
• Get to first base
• Get to first base with
• Get to second base
• Get your retaliation in first
• Give the show away
• Go down for the third time
• Half a second
• Handbrake turn (180 degree turn in a car by locking the back wheels)
• Have a second string to your bow have
• He's fallen in the water (A catchphrase from The Goon Show)
• Head first
• Heeere's Johnny (A catchphrase from Johnny Carson Show)
• Hey there, Boo Boo! (A catchphrase from The Yogi Bear Show)
• Hidden Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• Holy mackerel! (A catchphrase from Kingfish In Amos 'N' Andy Show)
• How very dare you (A catchphrase from The Catherine Tate Show)
• I Second That Emotion (Smokey Robinson song)
• I don't have to show you any stinking badges (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
• I was very very drunk (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here (Reality TV show)
• I'm a little bit wooooor, a little bit waaaaaaaaaayy, I'm a geezer! (A catchphrase from Chris The Crafty Cockney In The Fast Show)
• I'm smarter than the average bear! (A catchphrase from The Yogi Bear Show)
• If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again
• If you ain't first, you're last
• If you change your mind, I'm the first in line (ABBA lyric)
• If you're not a part of the solution, you're part of the problem