Granny Phrases

Phrases

• Age old
• All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (the opening line of Anna Karenina)
• And all because the lady loves Milk Tray (Cadbury's Milk Tray advertising slogan)
• Any old how
• Arsenic And Old Lace (Cary Grant movie)
• As full as a fat lady's sock
• As old as Methuselah
• As old as the hills
• As tough as old boots
• Bad Romance (Lady Gaga song)
• Bag lady
• Beanpole family
• Black sheep of the family
• Boring old fart
• Born This Way (Lady Gaga song)
• Busy old fool, unruly sun (from a poem by John Donne)
• By my lady
• Chip off the old block
• Cleaning lady
• Did I do that? (A catchphrase from Family Matters)
• Dirty old man
• Don't put new wine into old bottles
• Dysfunctional family
• Faint heart never won fair lady
• Family fortunes
• Family man
• Family matters
• Family ties
• Family tree
• Family values
• For old times' sake
• Foxy Lady (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Get your family into Shape, without them even noticing (St. Ivel Yogurt advertising slogan)
• Give it the old college try
• Good old boys
• Good old times
• Grand old man
• Granny dumping
• Granny farming
• Granny flat
• Granny, what big teeth you have got
• Grumpy Old Men (Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau movie)
• Head of the family
• High old time
• How con-veen-ient! (A catchphrase from The Church Lady In Saturday Night Live)
• I Think I Love You (The Partridge Family song)
• I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled (from a poem by Eliot)
• If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself (Albert Einstein quotation)
• If your grandmother had wheels, she'd be a trolley car
• In days of old when knights were bold
• In the family way
• It's a family affair
• It's not over until the fat lady sings
• It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring
• Just Dance (Lady Gaga (with Colby O'Donis song)
• Keep it in the family
• Lady Bountiful
• Lady In Red (Chris de Burgh song)
• Lady Justice
• Lady Madonna (Beatles song)
• Lady Madonna, children at your feet (Beatles song lyric)
• Lady Marmalade (Christina Aguilera Lil' Kim and Pink song)
• Lady Windermere's Fan (play by Oscar Wilde)
• Lady killer
• Lady luck
• Lady muck
• Lady of a certain age
• Lady of the night
• Lay Lady Lay (Bob Dylan song)
• Luck Be A Lady Tonight (Frank Loesser song)
• Make old bones
• Money for old rope
• Monstrous carbuncle on the face of an old friend (Prince Charles quotation)
• My Fair Lady (Lerner and Loewe musical)
• My arse (A catchphrase from Royle Family)
• My old Dutch (Cockney rhyming slang for duchess)
• My old china (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
• My old man
• Nanny state
• Need You Now (Lady Antebellum song)
• New wine in old bottles
• Not a cough in a carload (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Old Aches and Pains (Nickname of Luke Appling)
• Old Blue Eyes (Nickname of Frank Sinatra)
• Old Hickory (Nickname of Andrew Jackson)
• Old Hunker
• Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he (line from nursery rhyme)
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• Old Red Eyes (Nickname of Alice Cooper)
• Old Stoneface (Nickname of Buster Keaton)
• Old banger
• Old before your time
• Old chestnut
• Old codger
• Old enough to be your mother
• Old fashioned look
• Old fogey
• Old goat
• Old habits die hard
• Old hat
• Old head on young shoulders
• Old lag
• Old lang syne
• Old maid
• Old master
• Old money
• Old reliable
• Old salt
• Old school
• Old school tie
• Old soak
• Old soldiers never die, they just fade away
• Old stand-by
• Old sweat
• Old trout
• Old wives' tale
• Our survey says (A catchphrase from Family Fortunes)
• Out with the old in with the new
• Painted lady
• Play the old soldier
• Poker Face (Lady Gaga song)
• Preparing to be a beautiful lady (Pears' Soap advertising slogan)
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• Ring out the old and ring in the new
• Runs in the family
• Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands (Bob Dylan song)
• Same old same old
• Same old story
• Sell your grandmother
• Selling the family silver
• Should old acquaintance be forgot
• Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
• Spend more time with my family
• The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Champagne Lady (Nickname of singer Alice Lon)
• The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The First Lady of Television (Nickname of Faye Emerson)
• The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Iron Lady (Nickname of Margaret Thatcher)
• The Lady Vanishes (Margaret Lockwood / Alfred Hitchcock movie)
• The Lady of The Lamp (Nickname of Florence Nightingale)
• The Little Lady (Nickname of Jo Anne Santini (Michele Scarabelli))
• The Matinee Lady (Nickname of actress Carol Wayne)
• The Mystery Lady (Nickname of Shondell Alfred)
• The Nine Days Queen (Nickname of Lady Jane Grey)
• The Old Bill
• The Old Groaner (Nickname of Bing Crosby)
• The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street (Nickname of The Bank of England)
• The Old Man And The Sea (Spencer Tracy movie)
• The Old Mongoose (Nickname of Archie Moore)
• The Old Pretender (Nickname of James Stuart)
• The Old Pueblo (Nickname of Tucson Arizona)
• The Royle Family (BBC comedy television series)
• The Same Old Song (Four Tops song)
• The family jewels
• The family silver
• The family that prays together stays together
• The good old days
• The lady doth protest too much, methinks (from Hamlet by Shakespeare)
• The mark of a man (Old Spice aftershave advertising slogan)
• The old ball and chain
• The old country
• The old lie: Dulce et Decorum Est (from a poem by Owen)
• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid (Jane Austen quotation)
• The thrill of Roses Spiced with excitement Speaking of love (Old Spice advertising slogan)
• There was an old woman who lived in a shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• There's life in the old dog yet
• There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle
• There's many a good tune played on an old piano
• There's no fool like an old fool
• Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars (Buick advertising slogan)
• Up to your old tricks
• Upstairs, downstairs and in my lady's chamber (line from nursery rhyme)
• We make money the old fashioned way, we earn it (Smith Barney advertising slogan)
• We're Just One Big Happy Family (Richard Hawley song)
• We're just one big happy family
• We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just one thing. The World's Best Tobacco (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple (from a poem by Joseph)
• White lady
• Winter drawers on (old British euphemistic joke)
• You are never too old to learn
• You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family
• You can't teach an old dog new tricks
• You dirty old man (A catchphrase from Steptoe and Son)
• You've made an old man very happy