Housework Phrases

Phrases

• A Doll's House (play by Henrik Ibsen)
• A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play (Mars Chocolate advertising slogan)
• A clean getaway
• A house divided against itself cannot stand
• A house is not a home
• A lot on your plate (having many responsibilities)
• A new broom sweeps clean
• A work in progress
• Acid house
• Ads work harder in the new Granada (Granada advertising slogan)
• All in a day's work
• All my own work
• All over the shop
• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
• Alpha Mom (an ambitious mother who aims to excel at work while raising children)
• Art house
• As clean as a whistle
• Beckingham Palace (Nickname of David and Victoria Beckham's house)
• Beef. It's what's for dinner (Cattlemen's Beef Board advertising slogan)
• Big house
• Bleak House (Charles Dickens book)
• Bring the house down
• Buck House (Nickname of Buckingham Palace)
• Bucket shop
• Burning Down The House (Talking Heads song)
• Bury yourself in your work
• By the hairs on my chinny chin chin, I'll blow your house down
• 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 enough for government work
• Come clean
• 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)
• Dinner and a movie
• Dinner date
• Dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner, Batman!
• Dirty but clean
• Dirty work at the crossroads
• Doctor In The House (Dirk Bogade / Luchino Visconti movie)
• Dog's dinner
• Don't just book it, Thomas Cook it (Thomas Cook advertising slogan)
• Donkey work
• Eaten out of house and home
• Everybody lies (A catchphrase from Dr Gregory House in House)
• 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)
• Front of house
• Full house
• Get behind in your work
• Get on like a house on fire
• Go to work on an egg (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Good clean fun
• Good to the last drop (Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan)
• Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? (Sidney Poitier / Spencer Tracy movie)
• Halfway house
• Hard work never did anyone any harm
• Hard work never killed anyone
• Have a Captain Cook (Cockney rhyming slang for look)
• Have clean hands
• Have your work cut out for you
• He huffed and he puffed and he blew their house down
• 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
• 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
• If it's got to be clean, it's got to be Tide (Tide Washing Powder advertising slogan)
• Imagination at Work (General Electric advertising slogan)
• Is there a doctor in the house?
• It beats as it sweeps as it cleans (Hoover advertising slogan)
• 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
• Keep a clean sheet
• Keep a good house
• Keep open house

• Keep the shop and the shop will keep you
• Keep up the good work
• Keep your nose clean
• Knocking shop
• Life is our life's Work (Pfizer advertising slogan)
• Like a bull in a china shop
• Line of work
• Live over the shop
• Mad house
• Maid of all work
• Make a clean break
• Make a clean breast of it
• Make light work of
• Make short work of
• Many hands make light work
• Menthol-Fresh, cool, clean, Consulate (Consulate Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Mister Clean
• Mop and mow
• Mop the floor with
• Mop up
• More reasons to shop at Morrisons (WM Morrison's advertising slogan)
• Mrs. Mop (traditional English name for a cleaning woman)
• Nasty piece of work
• Never do a stroke of work
• Nice work if you can get it
• 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)
• Office work
• On the house
• One stop shop
• Only fools and horses work
• Open house
• Paper the house
• Party Like a Rock Star (Shop Boyz song)
• Pressure of work
• Put your house in order
• Real piece of work
• See what the future has in store (Future Shop advertising slogan)
• Shop 'till you drop
• Shop Around (Smokey Robinson song)
• Shop around
• Show a clean pair of heels
• Shut up shop
• Smallest room in the house
• Spade work
• Spring clean
• Squeaky clean
• Sydney Opera House (tourist attraction in Australia)
• Take a Thomas Cook at our prices! (Thomas Cook Travel advertising slogan)
• Talk shop
• Talking shop
• Taste as good as it smells (Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan)
• 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 Devil finds work for idle hands to do
• The Galloping Gourmet (Pseudonym of cook Graham Kerr)
• The House Doctor (Pseudonym of Ron Hazelton)
• The House of the Rising Sun (The Animals song)
• The Internet at Work (UUNET advertising slogan)
• The White House (tourist attraction in Washington USA)
• The angel in the house
• The best seat in the house (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• The clean plate club
• 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
• 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)
• Thrift Shop (Macklemore and Ryan Lewis with Wanz song)
• Top of the shop (Bingo call for number ninety)
• 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
• Who lives in a house like this? (A catchphrase from Through the Keyhole)
• Why do only fools and horses work?
• Wipe the slate clean
• 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
• You shop, we drop (Tesco home delivery advertising slogan)
• You're not fully clean until you're Zestfully clean (Zest Soap advertising slogan)
• Yours faithfully (Trust House Forte advertising slogan)