Humble Phrases

Phrases

• A poor relation
• A poor workman blames his tools
• Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
• All time low
• As poor as a church mouse
• Be It Ever So Humble There's No Place Like Home (John Howard Payne and Sir Henry Bishop song)
• Dirt poor
• Don't be modest
• Down to the ground
• Eat crow
• Eat humble pie
• Eat your words
• Friday night and the lights are low (ABBA lyric)
• Gentle Jesus, meek and mild
• Get the low down
• Hat in hand
• High and low
• I Pity The Poor Immigrant (Bob Dylan song)
• Keep a low profile
• Laid low
• Lay low
• Lie low
• Low blow
• Low brow
• Low cal
• Low comedy
• Low ebb
• Low hanging fruit
• Low key
• Low life
• Low man on the totem pole
• Low profile
• Low rent
• Low rider
• Low spirits
• Mendoza line (A baseball expression denoting a line marking a very poor performance)
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• One law for the rich and another for the poor
• Piss poor
• Poor but honest
• Poor little rich girl
• Poor thing but mine own
• Rich man poor man beggerman thief
• Rubber chicken (poor quality or overcooked chicken)
• Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
• Search high and low
• Take down a peg or two
• The Poor Bloody Infantry (term used to describe the British infantry in WWI)
• The low countries
• The low down
• The meek shall inherit the earth
• The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
• Think nothing of it
• Why have low calories when you can have no calories (Natrena advertising slogan)
• You take the high road: I'll take the low road