Industry Phrases

Phrases

• A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play (Mars Chocolate advertising slogan)
• A dirty business
• A head for business and a body for sin
• A lot on your plate (having many responsibilities)
• A work in progress
• Ads work harder in the new Granada (Granada advertising slogan)
• All in a day's work
• All my own work
• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
• Alpha Mom (an ambitious mother who aims to excel at work while raising children)
• Back in business
• Badge engineering
• Balance of trade
• Big Blue (Nickname of International Business Machines (IBM))
• Bury yourself in your work
• Business acumen
• Business as usual
• Business at hand
• Business before pleasure
• Business class
• Business end
• Business is beautiful (Sprint advertising slogan)
• Business is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
• Business jet
• Business need
• Business or pleasure
• Business partner
• Business plan
• Business to business
• Cap and trade (A policy tool aimed at protecting the environment)
• Captain of industry
• Close enough for government work
• Come on women, man the factories (WWII slogan)
• Cottage industry
• Dirty work at the crossroads
• Do the business
• Do your business
• Doing a land-office business
• Don't make a big production out of it
• Don't mix business with pleasure
• Donkey work
• Due diligence
• Engineering tomorrow's world (BICC Group advertising slogan)
• Everybody out (A catchphrase from The Rag Trade)
• Factory farming (rearing livestock under industrial conditions)
• Fair Trade
• For those who like the trade rough (Travis aftershave advertising slogan)
• Free trade
• Get behind in your work
• Get down to business
• Go about your business
• Go to work on an egg (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Hard work never did anyone any harm
• Hard work never killed anyone
• Have your work cut out for you
• Hive of industry
• How does the wireless industry make you feel? (Sprint PCS advertising slogan)
• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work (Thomas Edison quotation)
• I'll make it my business
• If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers
• Imagination at Work (General Electric advertising slogan)
• Industrial action
• Industrial strength
• Keep up the good work
• Land office business
• Life is our life's Work (Pfizer advertising slogan)
• Like nobody's business
• Line of work
• Liquid engineering (Castrol Motor Oil advertising slogan)
• Maid of all work
• Make light work of
• Make short work of
• Many hands make light work
• Mean business
• Mind your own business
• Monkey business
• Moving at the speed of business (UPS advertising slogan)
• Nasty piece of work
• Never do a stroke of work
• Nice work if you can get it
• Office work
• Only fools and horses work
• Open for business
• Pressure of work
• Rag trade
• Real food for real people (The beef industry advertising slogan)
• Real piece of work
• Reverse engineering
• Risky business
• Rough trade
• Seeing small business differently (SBC Communications advertising slogan)
• Spade work
• Stock in trade
• Strictly business
• Sunrise industry
• Sunset industry
• Taking care of business
• The Beehive Of Industry (Nickname of Providence Rhode Island)
• The Best Second Banana in the Business (Nickname of Art Carney)
• The Devil finds work for idle hands to do
• The English disease
• The Internet at Work (UUNET advertising slogan)
• The Rag Trade (BBC comedy television series)
• The Show Business Capital Of The World (Nickname of Hollywood California)
• The Smartest Dumbbell in the History of Show Business (Nickname of comedienne Gracie Allen)
• The business
• The business of America is business
• There's No Business Like Show Business (Judy Garland song)
• This Woman's Work (Kate Bush song)
• This line of business
• Too Much Monkey Business (Chuck Berry song)
• Tools of the trade
• Trade down
• Tricks of the trade
• We Can Work It Out (Beatles song)
• We make things that make communications work (Lucent Technologies advertising slogan)
• We mean business
• What a piece of work is man
• Whistle while you work
• Why do only fools and horses work?
• 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 got a friend in the business (Gateway 2000 advertising slogan)