Fare Phrases

Phrases

• Affair of the heart
• Affair to remember
• All the fun of the fair
• All's fair in love and war
• Asking price
• At a price to suit your pocket
• Barnet Fair (Cockney rhyming slang for hair)
• Bluff charge (A movement towards by an animal towards its prey which is halted without attacking)
• By fair means or foul
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Cheap at half the price
• China price
• Chip and charge
• Closing price
• Come on down (A catchphrase from The Price Is Right)
• Emotion charged
• Every man has his price
• Faint heart never won fair lady
• Fair Trade
• Fair and Balanced (FOX News advertising slogan)
• Fair and aboveboard
• Fair and square
• Fair crack of the whip
• Fair dinkum
• Fair do's
• Fair enough
• Fair exchange is no robbery
• Fair game
• Fair go
• Fair market value (a reasonable price for an article for sale)
• Fair play
• Fair play to you
• Fair sex
• Fair shake
• Fair to middling
• Fair to midland
• Finder's fee
• For fair

• Half price
• I'm in charge (A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth)
• If man were meant to fly, God would have lowered the fares (American Coach Lines advertising slogan)
• If you have to ask the price you can't afford it (Rolls Royce slogan)
• It's a fair cop
• It's a family affair
• Knockdown price
• Mate's rates (discount price offered to friends)
• My Fair Lady (Lerner and Loewe musical)
• No fair!
• No win, no fee
• Offer price
• Only the brave deserve the fair and the fair deserve JAEGER (Jaeger Sportswear advertising slogan)
• Pay the price
• Pearl of great price
• Pearls past price
• Power without the price (Atari advertising slogan)
• Price fixing
• Price on his head
• Price out of the market
• Price rigging
• Right service Right price (Meineke advertising slogan)
• Roll up, roll up, all the fun of the fair
• Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair (line from nursery rhyme)
• Stiffed for the fee
• Take charge
• The Fair City (Nickname of Dublin Ireland)
• The Prince of Menace (Nickname of actor Vincent Price)
• The Thomas Crown Affair (Steve McQueen movie)
• The price is dropping on your weekly shopping (Tesco advertising slogan)
• The price is right
• The price of liberty is eternal vigilance
• Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray book)
• Wardrobe mistress (a person in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company)
• What do points mean? Points mean prizes (A catchphrase from Price Is Right)
• What does that have to do with the price of beans in Tijauna?
• What does that have to do with the price of fish?
• What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
• World's Fair