Major Phrases

Phrases

• A cup of coffee (A baseball expression denoting a break from major league baseball)
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Day surgery (minor surgery that does not require the patient to stay in hospital overnight)
• Disease has no greater enemy (Glaxo/Wellcome advertising slogan)
• Ferret face (Nickname of Major Frank Burns (Larry Linville))
• Go for a soldier (Enlist in the army)
• High ticket item (a consumer good that would constitute a major expense when bought)
• Hold the field (- remain the most important)
• Hot Lips Houlihan (Nickname of Major Margaret Houlihan (Loretta Swit))
• I'm convinced the Goodyear Grand Prix-S is a major contribution to road safety (Goodyear Tyres advertising slogan)
• Larger than life
• Little fish in a big pond (someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers)
• Main chance
• Main event
• Main squeeze
• Major league (A baseball expression meaning at the top rank)
• Major player
• Might and main
• Papa Bear Colonel (Nickname of Robert Hogan (Bob Crane))
• Play the old soldier
• Progress is our most important product (General Electric advertising slogan)
• Puddin' Head (Nickname of Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan))
• Self important
• Soldier of fortune
• Soldier on
• The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The French Lieutenant's Woman (Jeremy Irons / Meryl Streep movie)
• The Galloping Major (Nickname of Ferenc Puskas)
• The main drag
• The main event
• The silent majority
• The whole is greater than the sum of its parts (proverbial saying)
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John Le Carre book)
• War baby (someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier)
• Where the rubber meets the road (where the important facts or realities lie)