Individual Phrases

Phrases

• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
• A person is known by the company he keeps
• Angel Cups (Nickname of soap character Marcy Rhoades)
• Bat Masterson (Nickname of American western character William Barclay Masterson)
• Be yourself; everyone else is already taken (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• Beauty contest (a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy)
• Beauty parade (a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy)
• Boat person
• Bubbly personality
• By royal appointment
• Cat person
• Character assassination
• Character driven fiction
• Creature comforts
• Creature of habit
• Cult of personality
• Desperate Dan (a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The Dandy)
• Displaced person
• Ethnic stocking (the appointment to political office on the basis of ethnicity)
• Evening person
• Exert one's authority
• First among equals (the most senior person in a group of equal rank)
• Have you any last requests? (humorous question asked as though a person was about to be killed)
• Heavy hitter (A baseball expression meaning a powerful or commanding person)
• I have it on good authority
• In person
• Individual streak
• 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 was the night before Christmas and all round the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
• Leading authority

• Make Your Own Kind Of Music (Mama Cass Elliot song)
• Morning person
• Mortal remains
• Murderers' Row (A baseball expression denoting a group of talented individuals or valuable assets)
• Not my type (not a person one is attracted to)
• On a case by case basis
• Out of character
• People person
• Per capita
• Person of interest
• Person to person
• Plough a lonely furrow
• Plough one's own furrow
• Plough your own furrow
• Potty mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• Scotch and the Single Girl (J&B Scotch advertising slogan)
• Shuffle off this mortal coil
• Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (Beyonce song)
• Single file
• Single out
• Single point of contact
• Single sign-on
• Split personality
• The longest journey starts with a single step
• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid (Jane Austen quotation)
• Toilet mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• Wardrobe mistress (a person in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company)
• We answer to a higher authority (Hebrew National hot dogs advertising slogan)
• When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions
• Wherever particular people congregate (Pall Mall Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• World authority