Phrase thesaurus
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