Merit Phrases

Phrases

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A swarm in May is worth a load of hay
• A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men
• Accept with thanks
• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
• Because I'm worth it (L'Oreal advertising slogan)
• Brownie points
• For what it's worth
• Fort Worthless (Nickname of Fort Worth Texas)
• Get a gold star (earn a merit point for doing well)
• Get your money's worth
• Give thanks
• If a job is worth doing it is worth doing well
• If it ain't Stiff it ain't worth a f*ck (Stiff Records advertising slogan)
• It's not worth crying over spilt milk
• Make a virtue out of a necessity
• Milk it for all it's worth
• Model of virtue
• More than my job's worth
• Not worth a hill of beans
• Not worth a plugged nickel
• Not worth a tinker's dam
• Not worth the candle
• Not worth the paper it's printed on
• One volunteer is worth ten pressed men
• Patience is a virtue
• Perfume worth 9 guineas an ounce (Camay Soap advertising slogan)
• Sixpence worth of Heaven (Cadbury's Flake advertising slogan)
• So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
• Thanks a bunch
• Thanks for nothing
• Thanks for the memory
• Thanks to Horlicks (Horlicks advertising slogan)
• Thanks, but no thanks
• The unexamined life is not worth living (philosophical opinion by Socrates)
• Two cents worth
• Virtue is its own reward
• Was she worth it (Bingo call for number fifty six)
• Worth a guinea a box (Beecham's Pills advertising slogan)
• Worth one's weight in gold