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False Phrases

86 phrases and expressions related to "false".

Phrases

  • Angel Falls (tourist attraction in Venezuela)
  • Appearances can be deceptive
  • Back the wrong horse
  • 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
  • Bread always falls butter side down
  • Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! (line from the movie 25th Hour)
  • Cook up a plan
  • Cooked up
  • Crocodile tears
  • Don't take it lying down
  • Fake it till you make it
  • Fake the funk
  • Falls City (Nickname of Louisville Kentucky)
  • 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
  • From the wrong side of the tracks
  • Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
  • Get off on the wrong foot
  • Get out of the wrong side of the bed
  • Go down the wrong way
  • Go wrong
  • How wrong can you be?
  • If anything can go wrong, it will
  • If the sky falls we shall catch larks
  • If this is wrong I don't want to be right
  • 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
  • Lie through his teeth
  • Lulled into a false sense of security
  • Magic beans
  • My country right or wrong
  • Niagara Falls (tourist attraction in Canada)
  • Not that there's anything wrong with that (A catchphrase from Seinfeld)
  • Old wives' tale
  • On the wrong foot
  • On the wrong side of the tracks
  • Prosthetic enhancements
  • Put a foot wrong
  • Red herring
  • Ring false
  • Rub up the wrong way
  • Sailing under false colours
  • Sexton Blake (Cockney rhyming slang for fake)
  • Snow job
  • The Fake Sheikh (Nickname of journalist Mazher Mahmood)
  • The Icebox Of The United States (Nickname of International Falls Minnesota)
  • The apple never falls far from the tree
  • The bread always falls buttered side down
  • The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain
  • The right place at the wrong time
  • Trumped up charges
  • Unsubstantiated rumours
  • Victoria Falls (tourist attraction in Zambia)
  • 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

Related

  • Bear false witness
  • 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
  • Lulled into a false sense of security
  • Ring false
  • Sailing under false colours