Minor Phrases

Phrases

• A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
• A cup of coffee (A baseball expression denoting a break from major league baseball)
• A still small voice
• All creatures great and small
• As small as the hairs on a gnat's bollock
• Baby Jordan (Nickname of basketball player Harold Miner)
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Bit player
• Blossoming youth
• Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
• Child of God
• Child's play
• Day surgery (minor surgery that does not require the patient to stay in hospital overnight)
• Don't sweat the small stuff
• Ferret face (Nickname of Major Frank Burns (Larry Linville))
• First World problem (a relatively trivial problem only affecting the affluent)
• Gnat's bollock (slang term for a very small unit of measurement)
• Go with child
• Good things come in small packages
• Good things come in small parcels
• Greasy spoon (a small cheap cafe selling fried food)
• Heavy with child
• High ticket item (a consumer good that would constitute a major expense when bought)
• Home For The Holidays (film starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr.)
• Hot Lips Houlihan (Nickname of Major Margaret Houlihan (Loretta Swit))
• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?
• I'm convinced the Goodyear Grand Prix-S is a major contribution to road safety (Goodyear Tyres advertising slogan)
• Junior miss
• Leave no child behind (Political slogan)
• Love child
• Major league (A baseball expression meaning at the top rank)
• Major player
• Minority of one
• No job too small
• One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind (Neil Armstrong quotation)
• Pass the Dutchie (Musical Youth song)
• Problem child
• Saturday's child works hard for a living
• Saviour sibling (a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease)
• Secondary virginity
• Seeing small business differently (SBC Communications advertising slogan)
• Small beer
• Small fortune
• Small is beautiful
• Small minded
• Small potatoes
• Small wonder
• Small wonder (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• Solutions for a small planet (IBM advertising slogan)
• Something and nothing
• Spare the rod and spoil the child
• Sunday's child is full of grace
• The Galloping Major (Nickname of Ferenc Puskas)
• The God Of Small Things (Arundhati Roy book)
• The Man Child (Nickname of Dwight Howard)
• The Man with the Child in His Eyes (Kate Bush song)
• The child is father of the man (from a poem by Wordsworth)
• The flower of one's youth
• The fountain of youth
• The lesser of two evils
• The next small thing
• The small screen
• The still small voice of God
• The winner takes it all, the loser standing small (ABBA lyric)
• Think small (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• Thursday's child has far to go
• Voodoo Child (Jimi Hendrix song)
• War baby (someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier)
• Wednesday's child has far to go
• Wee small hours of the morning
• With child
• Youth is wasted on the young