Despatch Phrases

Phrases

• A newspaper, not a snoozepaper (Mail on Sunday advertising slogan)
• Alpha and omega (the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, used as a name for God or Jesus)
• As quick as a flash
• Chain letter
• Cut to the quick
• Dead letter
• Direct mail
• Double quick
• Down to the pub for a quick one
• Easy Rider (Peter Fonda / Dennis Hopper movie)
• Express Mail
• Four letter word
• French letter
• Get Rich quick (Kenco Really Rich Coffee advertising slogan)
• Get rich quick

• Get the message
• Get your message across
• Hate mail
• Hit send
• I'll send all my loving to you (Beatles song lyric)
• In quick succession
• Jack be nimble Jack be quick (line from nursery rhyme)
• Joy rider
• Junk mail
• Kiss me quick
• Letter bomb
• Letter for letter
• Letter perfect
• Letter quality
• Low rider

• Mail order bride
• Mail shot
• Message in A Bottle (Police song)
• Mongoose Quick Rick (Nickname of Ricky Davis)
• Nick the Quick (Nickname of Nick Van Exel)
• On message
• Parcel out
• Part and parcel
• Pass the parcel
• Poison pen letter
• Quick and dirty
• Quick buck
• Quick change artist
• Quick off the mark
• Quick on the draw

• Quick one
• Quick smart
• Quick study
• Quick witted
• Quick, Henry, the FLIT! (Flit insecticide advertising slogan)
• Red letter day
• Riding bitch (riding pillion on a motorcycle)
• Send In The Clowns (Stephen Sondheim song)
• Send a salami to your boy in the army
• Send down
• Send in the reinforcements
• Send packing
• Send your parcels Red Star and pull out all the stops (Red Star advertising slogan)
• Slow slow quick quick slow
• Snail mail

• Somebody somewhere wants a letter from you (British Post Office advertising slogan)
• The Purloined Letter
• The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe book)
• The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne story)
• The check is in the mail
• The letter of the law
• The medium is the message (A catchphrase from Marshall McLuhan)
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
• Three letter acronym
• To the letter
• Voice mail