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309 phrases and expressions related to "match".

Phrases

  • A marriage made in heaven
  • A match made in heaven
  • Agree to differ
  • Agree to disagree
  • Ahead of the game
  • All men are cremated equal (Spike Milligan line)
  • All the news that's fit to print (New York Times advertising slogan)
  • All your base are belong to us (broken English phrase used in the video game Zero Wing)
  • America's Oldest Living Teenager (Nickname of game show host Dick Clark)
  • Anyone's game
  • As fit as a butcher's dog
  • As fit as a fiddle
  • As game as Ned Kelly
  • Baa baa black sheep have you any wool? (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Beaten at your own game
  • Beauty contest (a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy)
  • Beauty parade (a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy)
  • Beyond compare
  • Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Posey)
  • Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Worthy)
  • Blame game
  • Brand new ballgame (A baseball expression meaning when a team that has been behind ties up the game)
  • Bring your A game (perform to your best ability)
  • Call of Duty (video game title)
  • Cat and mouse game
  • Catches win matches
  • China plate (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
  • Civil union
  • Compare and contrast
  • Compare apple and oranges
  • Compare notes
  • Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Deep Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Deep Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Deep Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Deep Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Deep Point (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Deep Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Didn't they do well! (A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth In The Generation Game)
  • Different ball game
  • Ding dong bell Pussy's in the well (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Dish fit for the gods
  • Doctor Foster went to Gloucester (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Doctors recommend Phillip Morris (Philip Morris Tobacco advertising slogan)
  • Down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose (line from nursery rhyme)
  • End of the ball game
  • Equal opportunities
  • Equal pay, equal time (Bulova Watches advertising slogan)
  • Everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Fair game
  • Farewell to the ugly cigarette (Eve Cigarettes advertising slogan)
  • Fighting fit
  • First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
  • First among equals (the most senior person in a group of equal rank)
  • First comes love, then comes marriage
  • Fit But You Know It (The Streets' song)
  • Fit Dunlop and be satisfied (Dunlop Tyres advertising slogan)
  • Fit a quart into a pint pot
  • Fit for a king
  • Fit for purpose
  • Fit in with
  • Fit of the giggles
  • Fit the bill
  • Fit to a T
  • Fit to be tied
  • Five for silver (Magpie nursery rhyme)
  • Five, six, pick up sticks (line from nursery rhyme)
  • For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
  • For want of a nail the shoe was lost (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Four for a boy (Magpie nursery rhyme)
  • Game bird
  • Game brain
  • Game changer
  • Game of two halves
  • Game on
  • Game over
  • Game plan
  • Game set and match
  • Game time
  • Game to the last
  • Georgie Porgie pudding and pie (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Give the game away
  • Glow Little Glow-worm (children's nursery rhyme)
  • Golden Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting a player who strikes out four times in a game)
  • Goosey Goosey Gander where shall I wander (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Got game
  • Grand Theft Auto (video game title)
  • Group of death (the most difficult or competitive group in a sports tournament)
  • Guessing game
  • Gunpowder treason and plot (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Half a pound of tuppenny rice, half a pound of treacle (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Hatch, match and dispatch
  • Have a fit
  • Have you got a light mac?
  • He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum (line from nursery rhyme)
  • He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Hissy fit
  • Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall (line from nursery rhyme)
  • I couldn't agree more
  • I'm game
  • Internationally acknowledged to be the finest cigarette in the World (Dunhill Cigarettes advertising slogan)
  • It's in the game (EA Sports advertising slogan)
  • It's just a game
  • It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game
  • It's only a game
  • It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring
  • It's that Condor moment (Condor tobacco advertising slogan)
  • Itsy Bitsy spider climbing up the spout, down came the rain and washed the spider out (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Jack Sprat could eat no fat (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Jack be nimble Jack be quick (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Jack fell down and broke his crown (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Jack jump over the candlestick (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Join in marriage
  • Keep in step with
  • Keep pace with
  • Keep time with
  • Keep up with
  • Late in the game
  • Laugh fit to burst
  • Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Let the punishment fit the crime
  • Lift your game
  • Light up
  • Little Bo peep has lost her sheep (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Little Jack Horner sat in a corner (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Little Tommy Tucker sings for his supper (line from nursery rhyme)
  • London bridge is falling down (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Long Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Long Off (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Long On (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Long Stop (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage
  • Love match
  • Lucky Strike means finer tobacco (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
  • Lucy Locket lost her pocket (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Making smoking 'safe' for smokers (Bonded Tobacco Company advertising slogan)
  • Mario Kart (video game title)
  • Marriage isn't a word it's a sentence
  • Marriage of convenience
  • Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Mate's rates (discount price offered to friends)
  • Meet your match
  • Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Mix and match
  • Mixed marriage
  • More Doctors Smoke Camels than any other cigarette (Camel cigarettes advertising slogan)
  • More jobs through science (Union Carbide and Carbon advertising slogan)
  • More than a match for
  • Mug's game
  • Must win game
  • My old china (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
  • No contest
  • Not fit for a dog
  • Not fit for purpose
  • Numbers game
  • Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
  • On an equal footing
  • On the game
  • One for sorrow (Magpie nursery rhyme)
  • One two buckle my shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Only A Pawn In Their Game (Bob Dylan song)
  • Only game in town
  • Open marriage
  • Oranges and lemons say the bells of Saint Clements (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Pat a cake, Pat a cake, baker's man, bake me a cake as fast as you can (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Peer pressure
  • Perfect fit
  • Perfect match
  • Peter Peter pumpkin eater (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Pissing contest
  • Platinum Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting striking out five times in a game)
  • Play Cupid
  • Play a waiting game
  • Play the game
  • Play the percentage game
  • Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Primal Rage (film and video game)
  • Pussycat pussycat, where have you been? (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Put your game face on
  • Rain, rain go away, come again another day (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Raise your game
  • Remember remember the fifth of November (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Rhyme nor reason
  • Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Ring aring of roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Round and round the garden like a teddy bear (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Seesaw Margery Daw Johnny shall have a new master (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Seven for a secret, never to be told (Magpie nursery rhyme)
  • Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (from a poem by Shakespeare)
  • Shell game
  • Short Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Short Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Short Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Silly Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Silly Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Silly Point (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Silver wedding (a celebration of twenty-five years of marriage)
  • Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Six for gold (Magpie nursery rhyme)
  • Skin in the game
  • Smokers are requested to use Swan Vestas (Swan Vesta matches advertising slogan)
  • Sod this for a game of soldiers
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (video game title)
  • Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Starter marriage
  • Sticks and snails and puppy dog's tails that's what little boys are made of (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Strike a light
  • Sugar and spice and all things nice that's what little girls are made of (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Super Mario Brothers (video game title)
  • Take me out to the ball game
  • Take your hand in marriage
  • Talk a good game
  • The All Blacks (Nickname of the New Zealand Rugby Union team)
  • The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
  • The Big Ship Sails on The Ally-Ally-Oh (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The Dowager Queen of the Game Shows (Nickname of Pat Carroll)
  • The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts all on a summer's day (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The Sims (video game title)
  • The Thriller In Manila (Ali versus Frazier boxing match)
  • The beautiful game
  • The blame game
  • The cow jumped over the moon (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The dish ran away with the spoon (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The game is afoot
  • The game is up
  • The house that Jack built (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The king was in his counting house counting out his money (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The name game
  • The name of the game
  • The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The smoker's match (Swan Vesta matches advertising slogan)
  • There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile (line from nursery rhyme)
  • There was an old woman who lived in a shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
  • They danced by the light of the moon (line from nursery rhyme)
  • They dined on mince, and slices of quince (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
  • This little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none (line from nursery rhyme)
  • This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed at home (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Three blind mice, see how they run (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Three for a girl (Magpie nursery rhyme)
  • Three on a match
  • Three, four, knock at the door (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Tobacco baron
  • Tobacco is our middle name (American Brands, Inc advertising slogan)
  • Today something we do will touch your life (Union Carbide and Carbon advertising slogan)
  • Tom Tom the pipers son stole a pig and away he ran (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Trap and ball (children's ball game)
  • Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Two can play at that game
  • Two for joy (Magpie nursery rhyme)
  • Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named Paul (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Up above the world so high , like a diamond in the sky (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Up your game
  • Upstairs, downstairs and in my lady's chamber (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Use matches sparingly (Swan Vesta matches advertising slogan)
  • War game (a simulation of war intended as preparation)
  • We sell more cars than Ford, Chrysler, Chevrolet, and Buick combined (Matchbox advertising slogan)
  • We won't make a drama out of a crisis (Commercial Union advertising slogan)
  • We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just one thing. The World's Best Tobacco (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
  • Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town, upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Well fit
  • What's your game?
  • When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
  • When they were up, they were up (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Who are you? (Nintendo Game Boy Advance advertising slogan)
  • Who killed Cock Robin (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Whole new ball game
  • Whole shooting match
  • Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Winston tastes good like a cigarette should (Winston Cigarettes advertising slogan)
  • With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes she shall have music wherever she goes (line from nursery rhyme)
  • With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row (line from nursery rhyme)
  • You are in a Beauty Contest Every Day of your Life (Camay Soap advertising slogan)
  • Zero sum game
  • lookie likie (a lookalike - someone who closely resembles another)

Related

  • A match made in heaven
  • Game set and match
  • Hatch, match and dispatch
  • Love match
  • Meet your match
  • Mix and match
  • More than a match for
  • Perfect match
  • The Thriller In Manila (Ali versus Frazier boxing match)
  • The smoker's match (Swan Vesta matches advertising slogan)
  • Three on a match
  • Whole shooting match