Item Phrases

Phrases

• A close thing
• A funny thing happened on the way to the theatre
• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
• A little learning is a dangerous thing (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• A mind is a terrible thing to waste (United Negro College Fund advertising slogan)
• A slip of a thing
• A thing of beauty is a joy forever (from a poem by Keats)
• An ill-favoured thing sir, but mine own
• And the next object is (A catchphrase from Twenty Questions)
• Article of faith
• Bright young thing
• Chance would be a fine thing
• Comes to the same thing
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Queen song)
• Do the wild thing
• Do your own thing
• Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (Police song)
• Fair market value (a reasonable price for an article for sale)
• First thing
• Have a thing about
• Here's the thing
• High ticket item (a consumer good that would constitute a major expense when bought)
• I can't believe I ate the whole thing (Alka Seltzer advertising slogan)
• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself
• Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results (Albert Einstein quotation)
• It don't mean a thing if it ain't got swing
• It's a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done
• It's a red thing (Tizer advertising slogan)
• It's the real thing (Coca Cola advertising slogan)
• Item du jour
• Just one more thing (A catchphrase from Columbo)
• Let me make one thing perfectly clear

• Let's Call The Whole Thing Off (Irving Berlin song)
• Life is just one damned thing after another
• Love is the greatest thing
• Money is no object
• Neither one thing nor the other
• Object lesson
• One thing leads to another
• Onto a good thing
• Poor thing but mine own
• Softness is a thing called Comfort (Comfort fabric conditioner advertising slogan)
• Sure thing
• Teach someone a thing or two
• That Obscure Object Of Desire (Luis Bunuel movie)
• The best thing since sliced bread
• The genuine article (Budweiser Beer advertising slogan)
• The next small thing
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (Political slogan)
• The play's the thing
• The vision thing
• There's no such thing as a free lunch
• There's no such thing as bad publicity
• To every thing there is a season
• To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive
• Too much of a good thing
• Too much of a good thing is wonderful
• Unexpected item in bagging area
• Wardrobe malfunction (when an item of clothing slips out of place to expose part of the body - typically a woman's breast)
• We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just one thing. The World's Best Tobacco (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• What with one thing and another
• Wild Thing (Nickname of Anderson Varejo)
• You can have too much of a good thing
• You've Got a Good Thing Going (Kent Cigarettes advertising slogan)