Homework 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
• Alma Mater (the school or college from which a person has graduated)
• Alpha Mom (an ambitious mother who aims to excel at work while raising children)
• And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
• Back to school
• Bury yourself in your work
• Charm school
• Close enough for government work
• Dirty work at the crossroads
• Do your homework
• Donkey work
• Get behind in your work
• Go to work on an egg (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• 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 ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers
• Imagination at Work (General Electric advertising slogan)
• Keep up the good work
• Life is our life's Work (Pfizer advertising slogan)
• Line of work
• 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
• Never tell tales out of school
• Nice work if you can get it
• Office work
• Old school
• Old school tie
• Only fools and horses work
• Pressure of work
• Real piece of work
• School dunce
• School for scandal

• School of fish
• School of hard knocks
• School of thought
• School's out for summer
• School's out forever
• Shovel ready (a building project in which all the preliminaries have been arranged)
• Spade work
• Sunday school
• Talk out of school
• Tell tales out of school
• The Adventure of the Priory School (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Bronx Zoo (Nickname of Benjamin Harrison High School)
• The Devil finds work for idle hands to do
• The Internet at Work (UUNET advertising slogan)
• The dog ate my homework
• This Woman's Work (Kate Bush song)
• We Can Work It Out (Beatles song)
• We make things that make communications work (Lucent Technologies advertising slogan)
• We'll do the homework (Bendix Appliances advertising slogan)
• What Katy Did At School
• 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