Importance Phrases

Phrases

• A big shot
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A life changing experience
• A swarm in May is worth a load of hay
• A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men
• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
• At all costs
• Because I'm worth it (L'Oreal advertising slogan)
• Big cheese
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Big noise
• Big shot
• Big time
• Big wheel
• Big white chief
• Big wig
• Bigger fish to fry
• Burning issue
• Cut above the rest
• Earth shattering
• For what it's worth
• Fort Worthless (Nickname of Fort Worth Texas)
• Get your money's worth
• Golden rule
• Got bigger fish to fry
• History in the making
• Hold the field (- remain the most important)
• Hot button issue
• If a job is worth doing it is worth doing well
• If it ain't Stiff it ain't worth a f*ck (Stiff Records advertising slogan)
• It's not worth crying over spilt milk
• Little tin god
• Make great play of
• Make history
• Matter of life and death

• Milk it for all it's worth
• Mission critical
• More than my job's worth
• Must win game
• Not to be sneezed at
• Not worth a hill of beans
• Not worth a plugged nickel
• Not worth a tinker's dam
• Not worth the candle
• Not worth the paper it's printed on
• On the front burner
• One to remember
• One volunteer is worth ten pressed men
• Perfume worth 9 guineas an ounce (Camay Soap advertising slogan)
• Pride of place
• Progress is our most important product (General Electric advertising slogan)
• Self important
• Sixpence worth of Heaven (Cadbury's Flake advertising slogan)
• Splashed across the front page
• The Gold Standard
• The Importance Of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde book)
• The Importance of Being Ernest (play by Oscar Wilde)
• The great and the good
• The main event
• The unexamined life is not worth living (philosophical opinion by Socrates)
• Too big for your boots
• Too big for your britches
• Top priority
• Two cents worth
• Wake up and smell the coffee
• Was she worth it (Bingo call for number fifty six)
• Where the rubber meets the road (where the important facts or realities lie)
• World Heritage Site
• Worth a guinea a box (Beecham's Pills advertising slogan)
• Worth one's weight in gold
• You're the man