Firm Phrases

Phrases

• A chain is only as strong as its weakest link
• A dirty business
• A head for business and a body for sin
• A person is known by the company he keeps
• A tight corner
• ABC: America's broadcasting company (ABC advertising slogan)
• All set
• As solid as a rock
• As solid as an oak
• As solid as the ground we walk on
• As stiff as a poker
• As strong as an ox
• As tight as Dick's hatband
• As tight as a drum
• As tight as a duck's arse
• As tight as a tick
• As tough as old boots
• As tough as they come
• As tough as tough
• Back in business
• Better Ideas. Driven by You (Ford Motor Company advertising slogan)
• Big Blue (Nickname of International Business Machines (IBM))
• Bored stiff
• Born 1820 - Still going strong (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• Built Ford tough (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Business acumen
• Business as usual
• Business at hand
• Business before pleasure
• Business class
• Business end
• Business is beautiful (Sprint advertising slogan)
• Business is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
• Business jet
• Business need
• Business or pleasure
• Business partner
• Business plan
• Business to business
• Cast in concrete
• Christmas is a time to believe in things you can't see (3M Company Scotch Tape advertising slogan)
• Civil partnership
• Company man (a worker especially loyal to the employer he works for)
• Concrete ceiling
• Concrete jungle
• Concrete shoes
• Do the business
• Do your business
• Doing a land-office business
• Don't mix business with pleasure
• Enjoy our company (Sabena advertising slogan)
• Evil intent
• Face card (the jack queeen or king in a set of playing cards)
• Fat berg (a solid mass of grease in a sewer)
• Game set and match
• Genius loves company
• Get down to business
• Go about your business
• Going strong
• Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong (Pan-American Coffee Bureau advertising slogan)
• Goodnight, sleep tight
• Got your heart set on
• Hang tough
• Hold very tight please
• Horsy set
• I liked it so much I bought the company (Remington shavers advertising slogan)
• I'll make it my business
• If it ain't Stiff it ain't worth a f*ck (Stiff Records advertising slogan)
• In a tight spot
• In good company
• It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken (Perdue Farms advertising slogan)
• It's tough at the top
• Keep a stiff upper lip
• Keep bad company
• Keep company with
• Land office business
• Like nobody's business
• Making smoking 'safe' for smokers (Bonded Tobacco Company advertising slogan)
• Mean business
• Mind your own business
• Misery loves company
• Monkey business
• Moving at the speed of business (UPS advertising slogan)
• Night night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite
• On a tight leash
• On your mark, get set, go
• One Tough (Nickname of Joaquin Andejar)
• Open for business
• Out of the strong came forth sweetness (Lyle's Golden Syrup advertising slogan)
• Parents who use drugs have kids who use drugs (The Partnership for a Drug-Free America advertising slogan)
• Part company
• Play hardball (A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive)
• Present company excepted
• Ram it home
• Ready set go
• Ready, get set, go
• Risky business
• Rock solid
• Rule with a rod of iron
• Run a tight ship
• Scared stiff
• Seeing small business differently (SBC Communications advertising slogan)
• Set Fire to the Rain (Adele song)
• Set a thief to catch a thief
• Set eyes on
• Set foot in
• Set forth
• Set great store by
• Set in concrete
• Set in motion
• Set in train
• Set of wheels
• Set sail
• Set straight
• Set the Thames on fire
• Set the record straight
• Set the stage
• Set the world on fire
• Set the world to rights
• Set tongues wagging
• Set your cap at
• Set your face against something
• Set your hair on fire
• Set your heart on something
• Set your mind at ease
• Set your sights on
• Set your stall out
• Set your teeth on edge
• Set yourself apart
• Simon Says (1910 Fruitgum Company song)
• Sit tight
• Sleep tight
• So round, so firm, so fully packed (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Soft, strong and very long (Andrex toilet tissue advertising slogan)
• Stiff competition
• Strictly business
• Strong in the arm and thick in the head
• Strong medicine
• Strong stomach
• Strong, silent type
• Taking care of business
• Ten summersets he'll undertake on solid ground (Beatles song lyric)
• Terra firma
• The Best Second Banana in the Business (Nickname of Art Carney)
• The Boston Strong Boy (Nickname of John L. Sullivan)
• The Concrete Block (Nickname of Coventry England)
• The Show Business Capital Of The World (Nickname of Hollywood California)
• The Smartest Dumbbell in the History of Show Business (Nickname of comedienne Gracie Allen)
• The business
• The business of America is business
• The company you keep (New York Life advertising slogan)
• The document company (Xerox advertising slogan)
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• The rot has set in
• The stage is set
• The truth shall set you free
• There's No Business Like Show Business (Judy Garland song)
• This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions? (The Partnership for a Drug-Free America advertising slogan)
• This line of business
• This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
• Tight lipped
• To make that tough job easier - you deserve M&M candy (M&Ms advertising slogan)
• Too Much Monkey Business (Chuck Berry song)
• Tough Juice (Nickname of Caron Butler)
• Tough customer
• Tough love
• Tough luck
• Tough nut to crack
• Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime (Tony Blair political slogan)
• Tough pill to swallow
• Tough row to hoe
• Tough shit
• Tough titty
• Two's company three's a crowd
• Wardrobe mistress (a person in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company)
• We mean business
• When the going gets tough, the tough get going (A catchphrase from Joseph Kennedy)
• When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping
• Yorkshire born in Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head
• You got a friend in the business (Gateway 2000 advertising slogan)