Material Phrases

Phrases

• Acquaint yourself with the facts
• Air your dirty linen in public
• All part of life's rich tapestry
• All we want is the facts Ma'am (A catchphrase from Dragnet)
• America lives in Dacron (Dacron Fabric advertising slogan)
• America's freedom fabric (Dacron advertising slogan)
• As a matter of fact
• As smooth as silk
• As solid as a rock
• As solid as an oak
• As solid as the ground we walk on
• Atom Heart Mother (Pink Floyd album)
• Atom smasher
• Because it's your stuff (Iomega advertising slogan)
• Bit of stuff
• Bless his/her cotton socks
• Brass tacks (Cockney rhyming slang for facts)
• Bring on the real Thirst-Quencher! (7-Up advertising slogan)
• Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! (line from the movie 25th Hour)
• Cloth ears
• Clothes maketh the man
• Come home to a real fire (Coal Board advertising slogan)
• Complex number (a number containing real and imaginary parts)
• Controlled substance
• Corduory road (a road that is ridged and furrowed like the fabric)
• Cut from the same cloth
• Cut your coat to suit your cloth
• Dancing pleats that won't sit out (Orlon Fabric advertising slogan)
• Deep Throat (Nickname of Mark Felt)
• Dirty linen
• Don't Matter (Akon song)
• Don't sweat the small stuff
• Elizabeth Arden is real (Elizabeth Arden advertising slogan)
• Everything you can imagine is real (Pablo Picasso quotation)
• Face facts
• Facts and figures
• Facts of life
• Fat berg (a solid mass of grease in a sewer)
• For real
• Gather 'round the good stuff (Pizza Hut advertising slogan)
• Get real
• Get to the heart of the matter
• Get your facts straight
• Greasy kid's stuff
• Grey matter
• Gripping stuff
• Hard facts
• Hard stuff
• He's a real nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land (The Beatles song lyric)
• His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman book)
• Hold the field (- remain the most important)
• Hot stuff
• In high cotton
• In real time
• It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in
• It's all meat, a real treat
• It's the real thing (Coca Cola advertising slogan)
• Keep it real
• Kid's stuff
• Know your stuff
• Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini
• Live life in Comfort (Comfort fabric softener advertising slogan)
• Man of the cloth
• Material Girl (Madonna song)
• Matter of course
• Matter of life and death
• Matter of time
• Mind over matter
• Mind over matter: if you don't mind it don't matter
• News for nerds, stuff that matters (Slashdot advertising slogan)
• No laughing matter
• No matter
• No matter what what's-his-name says, I'm the prettiest and Lite's the greatest (Miller Beer advertising slogan)
• Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about (The Beatles song lyric)
• Only a matter of time
• Progress is our most important product (General Electric advertising slogan)
• Real card
• Real dusey
• Real estate
• Real food for real people (The beef industry advertising slogan)
• Real goodness from Kentucky Fried Chicken (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Real piece of work
• Rock solid
• Root of the matter
• Rough stuff
• Self important
• Shed light on the matter
• Short stuff
• Size does matter
• Softness is a thing called Comfort (Comfort fabric conditioner advertising slogan)
• Source material
• Strut your funky stuff
• Strut your stuff
• Stuff and nonsense
• Stuff up
• Stuff your face
• Style over substance (an emphasis on image rather than issues)
• Such stuff as dreams are made on
• Talk tweed
• Ten summersets he'll undertake on solid ground (Beatles song lyric)
• Thai - smooth as silk (Thai Airways International advertising slogan)
• The Cotton State (Nickname of the US state of Alabama)
• The Real Deal (Nickname of Evander Holyfield)
• The Real Slim Shady
• The Real West (Nickname of Pendelton Oregon)
• The emperor's new clothes
• The green stuff
• The matter in hand
• The real McCoy
• The real Simon Pure
• The real deal
• The stuff of dreams
• The stuff of legends
• Underneath Your Clothes (Shakira song)
• Wait just a cotton picking minute
• War movie (a film with war as the subject matter)
• Wash your dirty linen in public
• What's the matter?
• Where the rubber meets the road (where the important facts or realities lie)
• Will the real ... stand up? (A catchphrase from To Tell The Truth)
• Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
• You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear