Essential Phrases

Phrases

• A golden key can open any door
• Bare necessities
• Basic Instinct (Sharon Stone movie)
• Fear Is The Key (Barry Newman movie)
• Hold the field (- remain the most important)
• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him
• In a critical condition
• Is this trip necessary?
• Key of the door (Bingo call for number twenty one)
• Key to your heart
• Lock him up and throw away the key
• Low key
• Meat and potatoes
• Mission critical
• Nitty gritty
• No introduction necessary
• Off key
• On the critical list
• Progress is our most important product (General Electric advertising slogan)
• Self important
• Skeleton key
• The bare bones
• The key to a nice, relaxed evening (Horlicks advertising slogan)
• Throw away the key
• Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars (Buick advertising slogan)
• Under lock and key
• Vital signs
• Vital statistics
• Where the rubber meets the road (where the important facts or realities lie)