Design Phrases

Phrases

• A camel is a horse designed by committee
• Accidentally on purpose
• Action plan
• Aim high
• All part of life's rich pattern
• And the next object is (A catchphrase from Twenty Questions)
• Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
• Back to the drawing board
• Ballpark figure
• Beauty contest (a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy)
• Beauty parade (a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy)
• Bent out of shape
• Better by design
• Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door
• Build for the future
• Business plan
• Citizen enterprise
• City bike (a bicycle designing especially for urban riding)
• Cook up a plan
• Cramp your style
• Design flaw
• Design for life
• Designer drugs
• Designer dyke
• Designer stubble
• Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? (Warner's Body Bra advertising slogan)
• Doggy style
• Exit strategy
• Failing to plan is planning to fail
• Figure it out
• Figure painting (a form of painting in which the human body is the subject)
• Fine figure of a man
• Fine figure of a woman
• Fit for purpose
• Form follows function
• Free enterprise with every issue (The Economist advertising slogan)
• Game plan
• Gangnam Style (Psy song)
• General purpose
• Get in shape
• Get into shape
• Get your family into Shape, without them even noticing (St. Ivel Yogurt advertising slogan)
• Go figure
• Hate figure

• Haute couture
• Have designs on
• Higher purpose
• Holding pattern
• Honesty is the best policy
• House style
• I have a cunning plan (A catchphrase from Blackadder)
• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him
• Intelligent interior
• Joined up thinking
• Keep in shape
• Knock into shape
• Lick into shape
• Man with a plan
• Money is no object
• Not fit for purpose
• Object lesson
• Open door policy
• Plan B
• Plan ahead
• Pontiac: Designed for Action (Pontiac advertising slogan)
• Post modern
• Prime condition (in perfect shape)
• Putting on the style
• Quality never goes out of style (Levi's Jeans advertising slogan)
• Revolving door policy
• Scorched Earth Policy
• Shape up or ship out
• Ship shape and Bristol fashion
• Shovel ready (a building project in which all the preliminaries have been arranged)
• Sitting target
• Soft target
• Style over substance (an emphasis on image rather than issues)
• Take aim
• Take shape
• That Obscure Object Of Desire (Luis Bunuel movie)
• The Hag of Haute Couture (Nickname of RuPaul)
• The Spirit of American Style (Buick advertising slogan)
• The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals (Crispy Critters advertising slogan)
• The shape of things to come
• There is no Plan B
• Throw a shape
• We aim to please
• We pick you up (Enterprise Car Rental advertising slogan)