Message Phrases

Phrases

• Absolute pitch (the ability to determine a musical note by ear)
• All joking aside
• Alpha and omega (the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, used as a name for God or Jesus)
• Answers on a postcard
• Any word?
• Appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober
• As queer as a nine bob note
• Bad news travels fast
• Calling card
• Chain letter
• Dead letter
• Do I have to paint you a picture?
• Don't shoot the messenger
• Four letter word
• French letter
• Get the message
• Get your message across
• Give me a break
• Give us a call
• Go between
• Hatch, match and dispatch
• Instant messaging
• Letter bomb
• Letter for letter
• Letter perfect
• Letter quality
• Lonely hearts
• Meet with approval

• Memo Man (Nickname of Ramon Sessions)
• Message in A Bottle (Police song)
• On approval
• On message
• Party political broadcast
• Pitch doctor
• Poison pen letter
• Red letter day
• Roger willco
• Roger, over and out
• Save our souls
• Seal of approval
• Somebody somewhere wants a letter from you (British Post Office advertising slogan)
• Spin doctor
• Stamp of approval
• Sweep aside
• Take note of
• The Purloined Letter
• The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe book)
• The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne story)
• The letter of the law
• The medium is the message (A catchphrase from Marshall McLuhan)
• The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there (the opening line of The Go-Between)
• Three letter acronym
• To the letter
• Unexpected item in bagging area
• Voice mail
• What we have here is a failure to communicate (line from Cool Hand Luke)