Housewife Phrases

Phrases

• A Doll's House (play by Henrik Ibsen)
• A boy's best friend is his mother (Psycho)
• A clean getaway
• A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple
• A house divided against itself cannot stand
• A house is not a home
• A new broom sweeps clean
• A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a smoke
• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
• A woman's place is in the home
• A woman's right to choose
• Acid house
• All over the shop
• All the world and his wife
• Alpha Mom (an ambitious mother who aims to excel at work while raising children)
• American Home has an edifice complex (American Home Magazine advertising slogan)
• An Englishman's home is his castle
• Are you sitting comfortably? (A catchphrase from Listen With Mother)
• Art house
• As clean as a whistle
• At home with
• Atom Heart Mother (Pink Floyd album)
• Be It Ever So Humble There's No Place Like Home (John Howard Payne and Sir Henry Bishop song)
• Beckingham Palace (Nickname of David and Victoria Beckham's house)
• Beer at home means Davenport's (Davenport's beer advertising slogan)
• Behind every great man there's a great woman
• Big house
• Bleak House (Charles Dickens book)
• Bring home the bacon
• Bring it home to you
• Bring the house down
• Bringing it home to me (Prime Television advertising slogan)
• Broken home
• Buck House (Nickname of Buckingham Palace)
• Bucket shop
• Burger King - the home of the Whopper (Burger King advertising slogan)
• Burning Down The House (Talking Heads song)
• By the hairs on my chinny chin chin, I'll blow your house down
• Caesar's wife must be above suspicion
• Can you hear me, mother? (A catchphrase from Sandy Powell)
• Captain Underpants And The Wrath Of The Wicked Wedgie Woman (Dav Pilkey book)
• Charity begins at home
• Chasing tail (of a man pursuing the female sex)
• Chatham House rules
• Chief cook and bottle washer
• Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
• Chop shop
• Clean and sober
• Clean bill of health
• Clean cut boy
• Clean house
• Clean sheet
• Clean slate
• Clean sweep
• Clean up
• Clean up your act
• Clean your clock
• Clearing house
• Close to home
• Come clean
• Come home to Birds Eye Country (Birds Eye Frozen Foods advertising slogan)
• Come home to a real fire (Coal Board advertising slogan)
• Come home to roost
• Cook the books
• Cook up a plan
• Cook up a storm
• Cook your goose
• Cook's night out
• Cop shop
• Country house hotel (an upmarket hotel located in a revamped rural mansion)
• Crooked House (Agatha Christie book)
• Desperate Housewives (2004 comedy drama television series)
• Dirty but clean
• Do Right Woman Do Right Man (Aretha Franklin song)
• Do you kiss your mother with that mouth
• Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? (Warner's Body Bra advertising slogan)
• Doctor In The House (Dirk Bogade / Luchino Visconti movie)
• Don't just book it, Thomas Cook it (Thomas Cook advertising slogan)
• Don't leave home without it (American Express advertising slogan)
• Don't try this at home
• Drive your point home
• Driven home
• ET phone home (ET)
• Earth mother
• East, west, home's best
• Eaten out of house and home
• Every mother's son
• Everybody lies (A catchphrase from Dr Gregory House in House)
• Face that only a mother could love
• Factory outlet (a shop where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
• Factory shop (a retail outlet where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
• Fine figure of a woman
• Frailty, thy name is woman
• Front of house
• Full house
• Get on like a house on fire
• Go hard or go home
• Go home in a box
• Go home in an ambulance
• Go tell your mother she wants you
• Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)
• Good clean fun
• Good to the last drop (Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan)
• Halfway house
• Hammer it home
• Have a Captain Cook (Cockney rhyming slang for look)
• Have clean hands
• He huffed and he puffed and he blew their house down
• Hearth and home
• Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
• Hit home
• Home For The Holidays (film starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr.)
• Home James and don't spare the horses
• Home alone
• Home and dry
• Home and hearth
• Home and hosed
• Home boy
• Home delivery
• Home free
• Home from home
• Home front
• Home grown
• Home haircut
• Home improvement
• Home is the hunter
• Home is where the heart is
• Home is wherever I lay my hat
• Home maker
• Home remedy
• Home resort
• Home rule
• Home run
• Home stretch
• Home suite hotel (Larkspur Landing Hotel advertising slogan)
• Home sweet home
• Home truth
• Home worker
• Home, home on the range
• Honey I'm home
• Honky Tonk Woman (Rolling Stones song)
• Honour thy father and mother
• House and garden
• House and home
• House built on sand
• House frau
• House guest
• House husband
• House mother
• House music
• House of cards
• House of ill repute
• House rules
• House style
• House swap
• How To Murder Your Wife (Jack Lemmon movie)
• I Got A Woman (Ray Charles song)
• I did not have sexual relations with that woman
• I swear on my mother's life
• I'll be mother
• If it's got to be clean, it's got to be Tide (Tide Washing Powder advertising slogan)
• Is there a doctor in the house?
• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife (the opening line of Pride and Prejudice)
• It isn't nice to fool mother nature
• It was the night before Christmas and all round the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
• It's all good clean fun
• Just Like A Woman (Bob Dylan song)
• Keep a clean sheet
• Keep a good house
• Keep open house
• Keep the home fires burning
• Keep the shop and the shop will keep you
• Keep your nose clean
• Kept woman
• Kid tested Mother approved (Kix advertising slogan)
• Knocking shop
• Learnt at your mother's knee
• Like a bull in a china shop
• Like mother used to make
• Live as man and wife
• Live over the shop
• Living as man and wife
• Loose woman
• Mad house
• Make a clean break
• Make a clean breast of it
• Make an honest woman of
• Make yourself at home
• Mama always said that life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get (line from the movie Forrest Gump)
• Man and wife
• Menthol-Fresh, cool, clean, Consulate (Consulate Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Mister Clean
• Mode for your abode (Metropolitan Home advertising slogan)
• More reasons to shop at Morrisons (WM Morrison's advertising slogan)
• Mother Courage (play by Bertolt Brecht)
• Mother Earth
• Mother Russia
• Mother Superior jumped the gun (Beatles song lyric)
• Mother church
• Mother country
• Mother f*cker
• Mother hen
• Mother knows best
• Mother love
• Mother nature
• Mother of God
• Mother ship
• Mother tongue
• Mother's boy
• Mother's help
• Mrs. Mop (traditional English name for a cleaning woman)
• Necessity is the mother of invention
• Nip slip (the inadvertent exposure of a woman's nipple)
• Not A Dry Eye In The House (Meatloaf song)
• Not a dry eye in the house
• Not a dry seat in the house
• Not just nearly clean, but really clean (Ariel Ultra advertising slogan)
• Nothing to write home about
• Oh Give Me A Home Where The Buffalo Roam (Brewster Higly song)
• Oh, Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison song)
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• Old enough to be your mother
• On the house
• One card for home and abroad (Maestro advertising slogan)
• One stop shop
• Open house
• POSH - Port out, starboard home (false attribution of the origin of the word posh)
• Paper the house
• Party Like a Rock Star (Shop Boyz song)
• Phone home
• Pick up your marbles and go home
• Press your point home
• Put your house in order
• Ram it home
• Romp home
• See what the future has in store (Future Shop advertising slogan)
• She's A Woman (Beatles song)
• She's Leaving Home (Beatles song)
• Shop 'till you drop
• Shop Around (Smokey Robinson song)
• Shop around
• Show a clean pair of heels
• Shut up shop
• Side boob (the side of a female breast revealed by skimpy clothing)
• Smallest room in the house
• Spring clean
• Squeaky clean
• Sydney Opera House (tourist attraction in Australia)
• Take a Thomas Cook at our prices! (Thomas Cook Travel advertising slogan)
• Take home pay
• Talk shop
• Talking shop
• Taste as good as it smells (Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan)
• That brought it home to me
• That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them
• The Adventure of the Empty House (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Anne Frank House (tourist attraction in Amsterdam Netherlands)
• The Cider House Rules (Michael Caine movie)
• The French Lieutenant's Woman (Jeremy Irons / Meryl Streep movie)
• The Galloping Gourmet (Pseudonym of cook Graham Kerr)
• The Home Of Paul Bunyan And Babe The Blue Ox (Nickname of Westwood California, Brainerd Minnesota and Bemidji Minnesota)
• The Home Of The Masters (Nickname of Augusta Georgia)
• The House Doctor (Pseudonym of Ron Hazelton)
• The House of the Rising Sun (The Animals song)
• The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Lily Tomlin / Dolly Parton / Jane Fonda movie)
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales (Oliver Sacks book)
• The White House (tourist attraction in Washington USA)
• The Woman In Me (Shania Twain album)
• The Woman In White (Wilkie Collins book)
• The angel in the house
• The best seat in the house (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• The chickens have come home to roost
• The clean plate club
• The female of the species is more deadly than the male
• The green green grass of home
• The house of many doors
• The house that Jack built (line from nursery rhyme)
• The king was in his counting house counting out his money (line from nursery rhyme)
• The last turkey in the shop
• The lights are on but there's no one at home
• The mother of all battles
• The other woman
• The town bike (promiscuous woman)
• The world and his wife
• There was an old woman who lived in a shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• There's no place like HBO (Home Box Office advertising slogan)
• There's no place like home
• This Woman's Work (Kate Bush song)
• This is a local shop, we'll have no trouble here (A catchphrase from The League of Gentlemen)
• This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed at home (line from nursery rhyme)
• Thrift Shop (Macklemore and Ryan Lewis with Wanz song)
• Tied to his mother's apron strings
• Till the cows come home
• Time to go home
• Top of the shop (Bingo call for number ninety)
• Trophy wife
• Trouble and strife (Cockney rhyming slang for wife)
• Vanity thy name is woman
• Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman! (Coty Perfumes advertising slogan)
• War widow (a woman whose husband died in a war)
• Wardrobe malfunction (when an item of clothing slips out of place to expose part of the body - typically a woman's breast)
• Welcome home
• When A Man Loves A Woman (Percy Sledge song)
• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple (from a poem by Joseph)
• When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me (Beatles song lyric)
• Who lives in a house like this? (A catchphrase from Through the Keyhole)
• Who's she, the cat's mother?
• Wipe the slate clean
• Woman's work is never done
• Working from home
• You Can't Go Home Again
• You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman (Carole King song)
• You shop, we drop (Tesco home delivery advertising slogan)
• You'd be so nice to come home to
• You're not fully clean until you're Zestfully clean (Zest Soap advertising slogan)
• Your Mother Should Know (The Beatles song)
• Yours faithfully (Trust House Forte advertising slogan)