Measure Phrases

Phrases

• Any amount
• Body mass index
• Bog standard
• Built to scale
• Desperate measures
• Don't amount to a hill of beans
• Double standard
• Economy of scale
• Every inch a gentleman
• Fat berg (a solid mass of grease in a sewer)
• Fit a quart into a pint pot
• Give him an inch and he'll take a mile
• Gnat's bollock (slang term for a very small unit of measurement)
• Half inch (Cockney rhyming slang for pinch)
• Half measure
• Half measures
• Half pint
• Inch along
• Inch by inch
• Made to measure
• Mass hysteria
• Measure for Measure
• Measure twice, cut once
• Measure up
• Off the scale
• On a grand scale
• Pint sized
• Scale the dizzy heights
• Standard of the World (Cadillac advertising slogan)
• Summer time (the time adopted during the summer in advance of the standard time)
• The Gold Standard
• Up the tempo
• Vodka as it should be (Russian Standard advertising slogan)
• We found the weapons of mass destruction
• Weapons of mass destruction