Folk Phrases

Phrases

• All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (the opening line of Anna Karenina)
• All the lonely people, where do they all come from? (Beatles song lyric)
• An everyday story of country folk (A catchphrase from The Archers)
• As queer as folk
• Beanpole family
• Black sheep of the family
• Community of learners
• Computers help people help people (IBM advertising slogan)
• Connecting people (Nokia advertising slogan)
• Did I do that? (A catchphrase from Family Matters)
• Different strokes for different folks
• Don't you people have homes to go to?
• Dysfunctional family
• Family fortunes
• Family man
• Family matters
• Family ties
• Family tree
• Family values
• Food, Folks and Fun (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Forward with the People (Daily Mirror advertising slogan)
• Games people play
• Genius bonus (a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed people)
• Get your family into Shape, without them even noticing (St. Ivel Yogurt advertising slogan)
• Head of the family
• Hell is other people (Jean-Paul Sartre quotation)
• High occupancy vehicle lane (a traffic lane reserved for vehicles carrying several people)
• How To Win Friends And Influence People (Dale Carnegie book)
• How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? (Beatles song lyric)
• I Think I Love You (The Partridge Family song)
• I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
• I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me! (A catchphrase from Stuart Smiley In Saturday Night Live)
• If enough people would stop smoking and start drinking, we could get out of ashtrays and into vermouth (Cinzano advertising slogan)
• In the family way
• It Takes People Like You To Make People Like Me (Buck Owens song)
• It's a family affair
• It's all about you (People Telecom advertising slogan)
• Join the Pepsi People (Pepsi advertising slogan)
• Keep it in the family
• Kith and kin
• Little Boxes (Pete Seeger song)
• My arse (A catchphrase from Royle Family)
• Not a lot of people know that (A catchphrase from Michael Caine)
• Of the people, for the people, by the people
• Our survey says (A catchphrase from Family Fortunes)
• People carrier (a car with several passenger seats)
• People in here are trying to sleep
• People mover (a car with several passenger seats)
• People of colour
• People person
• People power
• People smuggler (someone involved in smuggling immigrants between countries, often illegally)
• People watching
• People who like people like Dial (Dial Soap advertising slogan)
• People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
• People's republic (a communist state)
• Pillar of the community
• Places to go, people to see, things to do
• Pleasing people the world over (Holiday Inn advertising slogan)
• Power to the people
• Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People song)
• Queer as folk
• Real food for real people (The beef industry advertising slogan)
• Runs in the family
• Selling the family silver
• Serving All our Community (Brampton's Arts Group advertising slogan)
• Show's over folks
• Spend more time with my family
• That's all folks (A catchphrase from Bugs Bunny)
• The People's Champ (Nickname of Freddie Mitchell)
• The People's Cherce (Nickname of Dixie Walker)
• The People's Princess (Nickname of Diana Princess of Wales)
• The People's Republic Of Berkeley (Nickname of Berkeley California)
• The People's Republic Of Cambridge (Nickname of Cambridge Massachusetts)
• The People's Republic of South Yorkshire (Nickname of Sheffield England)
• The Royle Family (BBC comedy television series)
• The family jewels
• The family silver
• The family that prays together stays together
• The little people
• The people's choice (a person or thing chosen by public acclamation)
• There's nowt so queer as folk
• This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie song)
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars (Buick advertising slogan)
• Top people take the Times (The Times advertising slogan)
• Try everything once, except incest and folk dancing (Sir Thomas Beecham quotation)
• We Shall Overcome (Pete Seeger song)
• We make things that bring people closer (Western Electrics advertising slogan)
• We the people
• We're Just One Big Happy Family (Richard Hawley song)
• We're just one big happy family
• When E F Hutton talks, people listen (EF Hutton advertising slogan)
• Where Have All The Flowers Gone? (Pete Seeger song)
• Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies (Beatles song lyric)
• Wherever particular people congregate (Pall Mall Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Who are the people in your neighborhood?
• Win friends and influence people
• Y.M.C.A. (Village People song)
• You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family
• You meet the nicest people on a Honda (Honda advertising slogan)
• You're Wendy's kind of people (Wendy Burgers advertising slogan)
• You, of all people (exclamation when meeting someone unexpectedly)