Expect Phrases

Phrases

• A New Hope (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• A big ask
• A forlorn hope
• Abandon hope all ye who enter here (warning from Dante's Divine Comedy)
• As well as can be expected
• Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer
• Ask after
• Ask and you shall receive
• Ask around
• Ask for the moon
• Ask me another
• Ask no odds
• Ask no questions and hear no lies
• Ask not for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee
• Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country
• Ask out
• Ask the Man who Owns One (Packard advertising slogan)
• Assume nothing
• Beyond hope
• Center of hope
• Cross my heart and hope to die
• Day surgery (minor surgery that does not require the patient to stay in hospital overnight)
• Doctor Livingstone I presume?
• Don't ask me
• Don't be vague, ask for Haig (Haig Scotch advertising slogan)
• Don't get vexed, ask Teletext (Teletext advertising slogan)
• Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars (line from the movie Now, Voyager)
• Dryest gin in town. Ask any Martini (Seagram's Gin advertising slogan)
• England expects
• Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (David Reuben book)
• Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (Woody Allen movie)
• Expect the unexpected
• Funny you should ask
• Glimmer of hope
• Great Expectations (Charles Dickens book)
• Great white hope
• Hope against hope
• Hope for the best
• Hope springs eternal
• Hope springs eternal in the human breast (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• I Predict A Riot (Kaiser Chiefs song)
• I ask you
• If you ask me
• If you have to ask the price you can't afford it (Rolls Royce slogan)
• In an interesting condition
• In line for
• Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results (Albert Einstein quotation)
• Keep hope alive
• Land of hope and glory
• No one expects the Spanish Inquisition (A catchphrase from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• Not a hope
• Play softball (A baseball expression meaning to ask easy questions)
• Shoot first, ask questions later
• Tastes so good cats ask for it by name (Meow Mix Cat food advertising slogan)
• The Great White Hope (Nickname of James J.Jeffries)
• To assume makes an ass out of u and me
• Triumph of hope over experience
• Where there's life, there's hope
• Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty? (ABBA lyric)
• Why ask why? Try Bud Dry (Budweiser Earl advertising slogan)
• You gotta ask yourself, do I feel lucky, well do ya punk? (Dirty Harry)