Fake Phrases

Phrases

• A class act
• Act of God
• Act out
• Act the fool
• Act the giddy goat
• Act the part
• Act up
• Act white
• Act your age
• Artificial respiration
• Back the wrong horse
• Balancing act
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Bear false witness
• Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey (Keanu Reeves movie)
• Blow smoke up your ass
• Born on the wrong side of the blanket
• Born on the wrong side of the tracks
• Caught in the act
• Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! (line from the movie 25th Hour)
• Class act
• Clean up your act
• Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
• Crocodile tears
• Do a disappearing act
• Double act
• Fake it till you make it
• Fake the funk
• False alarm
• False dawn
• False friends
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• False memory syndrome
• False modesty
• False pretences
• False prophet
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• Forge ahead
• From the wrong side of the tracks
• Funny money
• Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
• Get in on the act
• Get off on the wrong foot
• Get out of the wrong side of the bed
• Get your act together
• Go down the wrong way
• Go wrong
• Hard act to follow
• High wire act
• How wrong can you be?
• Human Rights Act
• If anything can go wrong, it will
• If this is wrong I don't want to be right
• In on the act
• In the wrong
• It went down the wrong way
• It's all gone Pete Tong (Cockney rhyming slang for gone wrong)
• Jump to the wrong conclusion
• Laugh on the wrong side of your face
• Lulled into a false sense of security
• My country right or wrong
• Not that there's anything wrong with that (A catchphrase from Seinfeld)
• On the wrong foot
• On the wrong side of the tracks
• Phone it in (perform an act in an uncommitted disinterested manner)
• Plastic fantastic
• Play hardball (A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive)
• Poodle faker
• Put a foot wrong
• Put on an act
• Random act of kindness
• Read the riot act
• Ring false
• Rub up the wrong way
• Sailing under false colours
• Sexton Blake (Cockney rhyming slang for fake)
• Sister Act (Whoopie Goldberg movie)
• Smell the Glove (fictional album by the spoof heavy-metal band Spinal Tap)
• Sock puppet marketing
• The Fake Sheikh (Nickname of journalist Mazher Mahmood)
• The act you've known for all these years (Beatles song lyric)
• The bull in the bowler hat (jokey term for artificial insemination)
• The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner (9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan)
• The right place at the wrong time
• Think global, act local
• Think globally, act locally (Friends of the Earth advertising slogan)
• Triple play (A baseball expression denoting the act of making three outs during the same play)
• Trophy wife
• Voter fraud
• What's wrong with this picture?
• Why don't you come up sometime and see me? (She Done Him Wrong)
• Woolly Bully (Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs song)
• Wrong Way Corrigan (Nickname of Douglas Corrigan)
• Wrong side of the blanket
• Wrong side of the tracks
• Wrong, with a capital R