Graft Phrases

Phrases

• A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play (Mars Chocolate advertising slogan)
• A lot on your plate (having many responsibilities)
• A work in progress
• Ads work harder in the new Granada (Granada advertising slogan)
• All in a day's work
• All my own work
• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
• Alpha Mom (an ambitious mother who aims to excel at work while raising children)
• Bury yourself in your work
• Close enough for government work
• Dirty work at the crossroads
• Don't shoot the messenger
• Don't shoot the piano player
• Don't shoot until you can see the whites of their eyes
• Donkey work
• Fruits of your labour
• Get behind in your work
• Go to work on an egg (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Hard labour
• Hard work never did anyone any harm
• Hard work never killed anyone
• Have your work cut out for you
• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work (Thomas Edison quotation)
• If I tell you I will have to shoot you
• If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers
• Imagination at Work (General Electric advertising slogan)
• Just shoot me
• Keep up the good work
• Labour in vain
• Labour intensive
• Labour of love
• Labour pains
• Labour saving device
• Labour under a misapprehension
• Life is our life's Work (Pfizer advertising slogan)
• Line of work
• Loves Labour Lost
• Maid of all work
• Make light work of
• Make short work of
• Many hands make light work
• Nasty piece of work
• Never do a stroke of work
• Nice work if you can get it
• Office work
• Only fools and horses work
• Pressure of work
• Real piece of work
• Saviour sibling (a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease)
• Shoot 'em up
• Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
• Shoot a fairy
• Shoot blanks
• Shoot down in flames (destroy an argument or theory)
• Shoot first, ask questions later
• Shoot from the hip
• Shoot him down in flames
• Shoot hoops
• Shoot it out
• Shoot me now
• Shoot on sight
• Shoot someone a line
• Shoot straight (to talk or deal honestly)
• Shoot the breeze
• Shoot the moon (remove household goods by night to avoid paying rent)
• Shoot the puppy
• Shoot through (to leave or abscond)
• Shoot to kill
• Shoot your cuffs
• Shoot your mouth off
• Shoot yourself in the foot
• Spade work
• Stop, or my mom will shoot (line from Sylvestor Stallone movie)
• The Devil finds work for idle hands to do
• The Internet at Work (UUNET advertising slogan)
• They Shoot Horses Don't They? (Jane Fonda movie)
• This Woman's Work (Kate Bush song)
• Turkey shoot
• We Can Work It Out (Beatles song)
• We make things that make communications work (Lucent Technologies advertising slogan)
• What a piece of work is man
• Whistle while you work
• Why do only fools and horses work?
• Woman's work is never done
• Work both sides of the street
• Work expands so as to fill the time available
• Work hard. Fly right (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• Work it
• Work itself up into a lather
• Work life balance
• Work like a Trojan
• Work like a beaver
• Work like a dog
• Work of art
• Work one's fingers to the bone
• Work the phone
• Work the rabbit's foot on
• Work to rule
• Work wonders
• Work your ass off
• Work your butt off
• Work your ticket
• Work yourself into the ground
• You don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps