Model Phrases

Phrases

• All part of life's rich pattern
• America's Next Top Model
• An Ideal Husband (play by Oscar Wilde)
• Bent out of shape
• Break the mould
• Built to scale
• Clay pigeon
• Counsel of perfection
• Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? (Warner's Body Bra advertising slogan)
• Eats shooots and leaves (classic example of the need for punctuation)
• Exemplary behaviour
• Feet of clay
• Gaseous Cassius (Nickname of Cassius Clay)
• Get in shape
• Get into shape
• Get your family into Shape, without them even noticing (St. Ivel Yogurt advertising slogan)
• Halo model
• Holding pattern
• Keep in shape
• Knock into shape
• Lead by example
• Lick into shape
• Make an example of
• Model behaviour
• Model citizen
• Model of virtue
• Model pupil
• Potatoes in the mould (Cockney rhyming slang for cold)
• Prime condition (in perfect shape)
• Role model
• Shape up or ship out
• Ship shape and Bristol fashion
• Strike a pose
• Take shape
• Textbook example
• The Great Pacificator (Nickname of Henry Clay)
• The Olympic ideal
• The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals (Crispy Critters advertising slogan)
• The shape of things to come
• Throw a shape