Mortal Phrases

Phrases

• A person is known by the company he keeps
• Alive alive O
• Alive and kicking
• Alive and well
• All human life is there (News Of The World advertising slogan)
• Are You Being Served? (BBC comedy television series)
• Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! (The Beatles song)
• Being There
• Boat person
• Body painting (a form of painting that uses the human body as a canvas)
• By royal appointment
• Cat person
• Come Alive! You're in the Pepsi Generation (Pepsi advertising slogan)
• Displaced person
• Don't you just love being in control? (British Gas advertising slogan)
• Earthly delights
• Earthly paradise
• Earthly pleasures
• Eat someone alive
• Eaten alive
• Ethnic stocking (the appointment to political office on the basis of ethnicity)
• Evening person
• Exert one's authority
• Famous for being famous
• Far better for being near to you (The Chesham Building Society advertising slogan)
• Figure painting (a form of painting in which the human body is the subject)
• First among equals (the most senior person in a group of equal rank)
• For the time being
• Half alive
• Have you any last requests? (humorous question asked as though a person was about to be killed)
• Heavy hitter (A baseball expression meaning a powerful or commanding person)
• Hope springs eternal in the human breast (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• Human Rights Act
• Human condition
• Human error
• Human kind cannot bear very much reality (from a poem by Eliot)
• Human nature
• Human resources
• Human rights
• I have it on good authority
• I'm free! (A catchphrase from Mr Humphries In Are You Being Served?)
• I'm only human
• If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying (Bob Dylan song lyric)
• In person
• Individual streak
• It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it (Maurice Switzer quotation)

• Keep hope alive
• Leading authority
• Like being savaged by a dead sheep
• Look alive
• Makes you feel human again (Solpadeine advertising slogan)
• More dead than alive
• More human interest (Washington Mutual advertising slogan)
• Morning person
• Mortal remains
• No earthly reason
• Not my type (not a person one is attracted to)
• Of Human Bondage (Bette Davis movie)
• Only human
• People person
• Person of interest
• Person to person
• Portrait painting (a form of painting in which the human face is the subject)
• Potty mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• Sakes alive
• Shuffle off this mortal coil
• Skin alive
• Snakes alive
• Snakes alive (Bingo call for number fifty five)
• Stayin' Alive (Bee Gees song)
• Supreme being
• The Human Eraser (Nickname of Marvin Webster)
• The Human Highlight Reel (Nickname of Dominique Wilkins)
• The Human Rain Delay (Nickname of Mike Hargrove)
• The Human Termite (Nickname of Joe Interleggi)
• The Human Victory Cigar (Nickname of Darko Milicic)
• The Importance Of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde book)
• The Importance of Being Ernest (play by Oscar Wilde)
• The human race
• The milk of human kindness
• The most human handset (DiStar advertising slogan)
• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid (Jane Austen quotation)
• The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on
• To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer
• Toilet mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman! (Coty Perfumes advertising slogan)
• Wanted, dead or alive
• Wardrobe mistress (a person in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company)
• We answer to a higher authority (Hebrew National hot dogs advertising slogan)
• What fools these mortals be
• World authority
• You'll never take me alive copper