Phrase thesaurus
Father Phrases
138 phrases and expressions related to "father".
Phrases
- Absent parent
- All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (the opening line of Anna Karenina)
- As the actress said to the bishop
- Baby father
- Bash the bishop
- Be It Ever So Humble There's No Place Like Home (John Howard Payne and Sir Henry Bishop song)
- Be like Dad, keep mum (WWII slogan)
- Beanpole family
- Beautiful Boy (John Lennon song)
- Big Daddy (Nickname of American football Dan Wilkinson)
- Big Daddy (Nickname of Idi Amin)
- Black sheep of the family
- Bricks and mortar (Cockney rhyming slang for daughter)
- Cake pop (A small piece of cake coated with chocolate)
- Come to papa
- Cool Papa (Nickname of baseball player James Bell)
- Dad's Army (BBC comedy television series)
- Daddy's little girl
- Did I do that? (A catchphrase from Family Matters)
- Disneyland daddy
- Don't panic (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
- Don't put your daughter on the stage Mrs Worthington
- Drink, feck, arse (A catchphrase from Father Ted)
- Dysfunctional family
- Family fortunes
- Family man
- Family matters
- Family ties
- Family tree
- Family values
- Father Knows Best (American TV Show)
- Father Of The Bride (Steve Martin movie)
- Father Ted (BBC comedy television series)
- Father of The Atomic Bomb (Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer)
- Founding father
- Full fathom five thy father lies (from The Tempest by Shakespeare)
- Get your family into Shape, without them even noticing (St. Ivel Yogurt advertising slogan)
- Grandfather clause
- Head of the family
- Head of the household
- Helicopter parent
- His father's son
- Honour thy father and mother
- How's your father
- I Think I Love You (The Partridge Family song)
- I'll Be Missing You (Puff Daddy with Faith Evans and 112 song)
- In the family way
- It's a family affair
- Judas priest
- Just a glint in his father's eye
- Keep it in the family
- Like father, like son
- Mom and Pop
- More tea vicar?
- My arse (A catchphrase from Royle Family)
- My old man
- Nash Daddy (Nickname of Steve Nash)
- No no no no no no yes (A catchphrase from The Vicar Of Dibley)
- Once you pop you can't stop (Pringles advertising slogan)
- Our father who art in heaven
- Our survey says (A catchphrase from Family Fortunes)
- Papa Bear (Nickname of George Halas)
- Papa Bear Colonel (Nickname of Robert Hogan (Bob Crane))
- Papa Doc (Nickname of Francois Duvalier)
- Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown song)
- Papa? Nicole? (Renault Clio advertising slogan)
- Petit Papa No�l (Tino Rossi song)
- Pop art
- Pop goes the weasel
- Pop off
- Pop someone's cherry
- Pop the question
- Pop your clogs
- Runs in the family
- Ryan's Daughter (David Lean movie)
- Santa's Little Helpers (allusion to the elves that help Father Christmas)
- Selling the family silver
- Shotgun wedding
- Snap, Crackle, and Pop (Kellogg's Rice Krispies advertising slogan)
- Spend more time with my family
- Sperm donor
- Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan
- Sugar daddy
- Sweet as the moment when the pod went 'pop' (Birds Eye Peas advertising slogan)
- Take a pop at
- That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine (Gene Autry song)
- The Godfather (Mario Puzo book)
- The Godfather of Soul (Pseudonym of singer James Brown)
- The Grocer's Daughter (Nickname of Margaret Thatcher)
- The Parent Trap (Hayley Mills movie)
- The Rat Pack (Nickname of entertainers Dean Martin Sammy Davis Jr Peter Lawford Joey Bishop and Frank Sinatra)
- The Royle Family (BBC comedy television series)
- The Sash My Father Wore (Irish traditional song)
- The Vicar of Dibley (BBC comedy television series)
- The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
- The bank of mum and dad
- The boy is father to the man
- The child is father of the man (from a poem by Wordsworth)
- The family jewels
- The family silver
- The family that prays together stays together
- The only 'sauce' I dare give Father (Burma Sauce advertising slogan)
- The sash my father wore
- The wish is father to the thought
- This is Not Your Father's Oldsmobile (Oldsmobile advertising slogan)
- Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars (Buick advertising slogan)
- Too pooped to pop
- Vox pop
- We're Just One Big Happy Family (Richard Hawley song)
- We're just one big happy family
- What did you do in the war Daddy?
- Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?
- Who's your daddy?
- Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
- You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family
- You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
Related
- Baby father
- Drink, feck, arse (A catchphrase from Father Ted)
- Father Knows Best (American TV Show)
- Father Of The Bride (Steve Martin movie)
- Father Ted (BBC comedy television series)
- Father of The Atomic Bomb (Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer)
- Founding father
- Full fathom five thy father lies (from The Tempest by Shakespeare)
- His father's son
- Honour thy father and mother
- How's your father
- Just a glint in his father's eye
- Like father, like son
- Our father who art in heaven
- Santa's Little Helpers (allusion to the elves that help Father Christmas)
- The Sash My Father Wore (Irish traditional song)
- The boy is father to the man
- The child is father of the man (from a poem by Wordsworth)
- The only 'sauce' I dare give Father (Burma Sauce advertising slogan)
- The sash my father wore
- The wish is father to the thought
- This is Not Your Father's Oldsmobile (Oldsmobile advertising slogan)