Lecture Phrases

Phrases

• Actions speak louder than words
• Address the ball (golfing term denoting readiness to play)
• All talk
• All talk and no trousers
• Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt
• Careless talk costs lives (WWII slogan)
• Chalk and talk
• Change of address
• Come and talk to the listening bank (Midland Bank advertising slogan)
• Dressing down
• Fighting talk
• Give someone a good talking to
• Give someone what for
• Good talk saves the food
• Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil
• Heart to heart talk
• I don't wanna talk (ABBA lyric)
• I want to talk to the organ grinder not the monkey
• Idle talk
• It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it (Maurice Switzer quotation)
• It's good to talk (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• Jive talk
• Learn your lesson
• Let's Talk About Love (Celine Dion album)
• Life lesson
• Loose talk
• Maiden speech
• Money doesn't talk, it swears
• Never speak ill of the dead
• Not to speak of
• Number 10 Downing Street (address of the British Prime Minister)
• Object lesson
• Pillow talk
• Please address the court
• Practice what you preach
• Rabbit and pork (Cockney rhyming slang for talk)
• See no evil, hear no evil speak no evil
• Shoot straight (to talk or deal honestly)
• Silver tongued (eloquent or persuasive manner of speech)
• Smooth talk
• So to speak
• Speak as you find
• Speak for yourself
• Speak in tongues

• Speak of the devil
• Speak softly and carry a big stick
• Speak the same language
• Speak when you are spoken to
• Speak your mind
• Speak your piece
• Speech is silver but silence is golden
• Talk a blue streak
• Talk a good game
• Talk dirty
• Talk down to
• Talk in riddles
• Talk is cheap
• Talk it up
• Talk me through it
• Talk of the Devil
• Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear
• Talk offline
• Talk out of school
• Talk out of your ass
• Talk over your head
• Talk shop
• Talk the hind legs off a donkey
• Talk the talk
• Talk through your hat
• Talk to Ralph on the big white phone
• Talk to me, baby
• Talk to the hand
• Talk turkey
• Talk tweed
• Teach someone a lesson
• The King's Speech (Colin Firth movie)
• The love that dare not speak its name
• The talk of the town
• The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things
• The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, Carroll)
• To save and invest, talk to Natwest (Natwest Bank advertising slogan)
• Tongue lashing
• Trash talk
• Walk the talk
• Walk the walk, talk the talk
• We Need To Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver book)
• We have ways of making you talk
• White man speak with forked tongue