Grade Phrases

Phrases

• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players
• Blow off the stage
• Desmond Tutu (Cockney rhyming slang for Second class degree (2,2))
• Don't put your daughter on the stage Mrs Worthington
• Exit stage left
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• First among equals (the most senior person in a group of equal rank)
• Graded grains make finer flour (Homepride Flour advertising slogan)
• Handbrake turn (180 degree turn in a car by locking the back wheels)
• Major league (A baseball expression meaning at the top rank)
• Make the grade
• Name, rank, and serial number
• Pull rank

• Rank and file
• Rear admiral (naval rank)
• Second degree burns
• Set the stage
• Stage door Johnny
• Star of stage and screen
• Take centre stage
• The nth degree
• The stage is set
• Third degree
• We are professional grade (GMC Truck advertising slogan)
• Weapons grade