Machine Phrases

Phrases

• A la car
• Baby you can drive my car (Beatles song lyric)
• Baby, you can park my car
• Badge engineering
• Bent out of shape
• Better Ideas. Driven by You (Ford Motor Company advertising slogan)
• Big Blue (Nickname of International Business Machines (IBM))
• Business is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
• Car surfing
• Chief cook and bottle washer
• Code monkey (slang term for a computer programmer)
• Computer assisted
• Computer nerd
• Computer says no (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• Core technology
• Danger, Will Robinson (A catchphrase from The Robot In Lost In Space)
• Dark Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• Decision engine (A form of search engine)
• Deep Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
• Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? (Warner's Body Bra advertising slogan)
• Dream machine
• Drive My Car (The Beatles song)
• Dude, you're gettin' a Dell! (Dell Computer advertising slogan)
• Easy as Dell (Dell Computer advertising slogan)
• Engineering tomorrow's world (BICC Group advertising slogan)
• Everything is easier on a Mac (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• Fire engine red
• For the rest of us (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Friday afternoon car
• Gentlemen we can rebuild him. We have the technology. (A catchphrase from Six Million Dollar Man)
• Get in shape
• Get into shape
• Get your family into Shape, without them even noticing (St. Ivel Yogurt advertising slogan)
• Go-Go Gadget Arms (Nickname of basketball player Kevin Garnett)
• Hand-held device
• Handbrake turn (180 degree turn in a car by locking the back wheels)
• Happiness is a quick-starting car (Esso advertising slogan)
• Hidden Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• If your grandmother had wheels, she'd be a trolley car
• Invisible Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• Jam jar (Cockney rhyming slang for car)
• Just 15 minutes can save you 15 percent or more on car insurance (GEICO advertising slogan)
• Keep in shape
• Knock into shape
• Labour saving device

• Lean mean fighting machine
• Let Hertz put you in the driver's seat (Hertz Car Rental advertising slogan)
• Lick into shape
• Liquid engineering (Castrol Motor Oil advertising slogan)
• Loom large
• Machine Gun Kelly (Nickname of George Kelly)
• Machine readable
• Monument To The Masses (Ima Robot song)
• Multimedia you can use (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• People carrier (a car with several passenger seats)
• People mover (a car with several passenger seats)
• Piss like a fire engine
• Power is Macintosh (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Prime condition (in perfect shape)
• Rage against the machine
• Reverse engineering
• Rip mix burn (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Search engine
• Serious bit of kit
• Sex machine
• Shape up or ship out
• Ship shape and Bristol fashion
• Take shape
• Technology the world calls on (Northern Telecom advertising slogan)
• The Ghost In The Machine (Arthur Koestler book)
• The Little Engine (Nickname of T.J.Ford)
• The Machine (Nickname of Sasha Vujacic)
• The Motor City (Nickname of Detroit Michigan)
• The car in front is a Toyota (Toyota Cars advertising slogan)
• The little engine that could
• The network is the computer (Sun Microsystems advertising slogan)
• The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals (Crispy Critters advertising slogan)
• The power to be your best (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• The shape of things to come
• The ultimate driving machine (BMW advertising slogan)
• Think different (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Think outside the box (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines (Ken Annakin movie)
• Throw a shape
• To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer
• Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars (Buick advertising slogan)
• We pick you up (Enterprise Car Rental advertising slogan)
• We try harder (Avis car rental advertising slogan)
• White heat of technology
• Would you buy a used car from this man?
• You can trust your car to the man who wears the star (Texaco Fuel advertising slogan)
• Your next car (Chrysler advertising slogan)