Near Phrases

Phrases

• 101 Dalmatians (Disney cartoon and Glenn Close movie)
• A Daniel come to judgement
• A Short History Of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson book)
• A close thing
• A lot of fuss about nothing
• About face
• About time too
• About to find pups
• About turn
• All About Eve (Bette Davis movie)
• All around Robin Hood's barn
• All good things must come to an end
• All things come to he who waits
• America's Next Top Model
• And the next object is (A catchphrase from Twenty Questions)
• Around The World In Eighty Days (Jules Verne book)
• Around the clock
• Arse about face
• As near as dammit
• As tough as they come
• Ask around
• At close quarters
• Balanced approach
• Bandy about
• Bang on about
• Bat the idea around
• Beat about the bush
• Been around the block a few times
• Beside myself with joy
• Beside the point
• Better luck next time
• Boss about
• Boy next door
• Bugger about
• Bum about
• Change has come to America
• Chasing nickels around dollar bills
• Cleanliness is next to Godliness (Pears' Soap advertising slogan)
• Cleanliness is next to godliness
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Richard Dreyfuss movie)
• Close call
• Close enough for government work
• Close enough for jazz
• Close friends
• Close of play
• Close proximity
• Close quarters
• Close ranks
• Close shave
• Close the books
• Close to home
• Close to the bone
• Close to the mark
• Close your eyes and think of England
• Close, but no cigar
• Come Alive! You're in the Pepsi Generation (Pepsi advertising slogan)
• Come And Get It (Badfinger song)
• Come Away with Me (Norah Jones album)
• Come Fly With Me (Frank Sinatra song)
• Come Into The Garden Maud (Tennyson poem and Victorian song)
• Come On Baby Light My Fire (The Doors song)
• Come On Over (Shania Twain album)
• Come On Over (Shania Twain song)
• Come Running (Van Morrison song)
• Come Together (The Beatles song)
• Come a cropper
• Come about
• Come across
• Come again?
• Come and get it
• Come and talk to the listening bank (Midland Bank advertising slogan)
• Come apart at the seams
• Come back for more
• Come between
• Come clean
• Come down hard on
• Come down on someone like a ton of bricks
• Come down to earth with a bump
• Come down to the line
• Come easy to
• Come from behind
• Come full circle
• Come good
• Come hell or high water
• Come hither eyes
• Come home to Birds Eye Country (Birds Eye Frozen Foods advertising slogan)
• Come home to a real fire (Coal Board advertising slogan)
• Come home to roost
• Come in from the cold
• Come into bloom
• Come into line
• Come into view
• Come into your own
• Come of age
• Come off it
• Come on down (A catchphrase from The Price Is Right)
• Come on in, the water's fine
• Come on like gangbusters
• Come on over
• Come on stream
• Come on women, man the factories (WWII slogan)
• Come out
• Come out and play
• Come out fighting
• Come out in a cold sweat
• Come out in the wash
• Come out of the closet
• Come out of the woodwork
• Come out of your shell
• Come out on top
• Come out swinging
• Come out with your hands up
• Come out you're surrounded
• Come over all funny
• Come rain or shine
• Come round
• Come running
• Come the three corners of the world in arms
• Come to
• Come to Jesus
• Come to Marlboro Country (Marlboro Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Come to a head
• Come to a screeching halt
• Come to a sticky end
• Come to blows
• Come to fruition
• Come to grief
• Come to light
• Come to mama
• Come to nothing
• Come to papa
• Come to rest
• Come to the Central Park Zoo Cafeteria. Let the animals watch you eat for a change (Central Park Zoo advertising slogan)
• Come to the aid of the party
• Come to the edge
• Come to the party
• Come to think of it
• Come to where the flavor is (Marlboro Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Come to your senses
• Come together right now over me (Beatles song lyric)
• Come unstuck
• Come up and see me sometime (A catchphrase from Mae West)
• Come up short
• Come up smelling of roses
• Come up trumps
• Come up with
• Come up with the goods
• Come what come may
• Come wind come weather
• Come with a begging bowl
• Come with me to the casbah (A catchphrase from Charles Boyer)
• Come within an ace
• Coming to a screen near you
• Companion plant (a plant grown near to another species to enhance its growth)
• Cut up about
• Dance around the problem
• Dangerous Liaisons (Glenn Close movie)
• Dick around
• Distance vision (the ability to see distant objects)
• Do you come here often?
• Don't Stand So Close To Me (Police song)
• Don't close your eyes for a minute
• Don't come the raw prawn
• Don't cross the bridge till you come to it
• Don't go on about it
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Drag ass around
• Draw to a close
• Dream come true
• Easy come easy go
• Echo Around the World (Edison Records advertising slogan)
• Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (Woody Allen movie)
• Extra, extra, read all about it
• Fall about laughing
• Fall about your ears
• Far better for being near to you (The Chesham Building Society advertising slogan)
• Fart around
• Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night (All About Eve)
• Fatal Attraction (Glenn Close / Michael Douglas movie)
• First come first served
• Fool around
• Gad about
• Get around to it
• Get your head around something
• Girl next door
• Go about your business
• Go around in circles
• Go around with
• Go on about
• Go to see a man about a dog

• Good things come in small packages
• Good things come in small parcels
• Good things come in threes
• Good things come to those who wait (Guinness advertising slogan)
• Goof around
• Green around the gills
• Hang about
• Hang around with
• Hard to come by
• Harp on about
• Have a thing about
• Have you any last requests? (humorous question asked as though a person was about to be killed)
• Have your wits about you
• Hedged about
• Here I come to save the day (A catchphrase from Mighty Mouse)
• Holding your cards close to your chest
• Horse around
• Horsing around
• How about that?
• How come?
• I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
• I Get Around (Beach Boys song)
• I don't know much about art but I know what I like
• I may not know much about art, but I know what I like
• I've come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum
• Idea whose time has come
• If you build it they will come
• If you can keep your head when all about you (from a poem by Kipling)
• In out, in out, shake it all about
• In the neighbourhood of
• In the order of
• In the region of
• In the same ballpark
• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on (Robert Frost quotation)
• It's about time
• It's all about you (People Telecom advertising slogan)
• It's come to a pretty pass
• Jerk around
• Jig around
• Johnny come lately
• Joke around
• Just around the corner
• Keep on about
• Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer (proverbial saying)
• Keep your wits about you
• Kick the gong around
• Kidding around
• Knock about
• Knock about comedy
• Knock into the middle of next week
• Know what you are about
• Lark about
• Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
• Loaf about
• Make a song and dance about
• Make no bones about
• Man about town
• Mess around
• Messing about in boats
• Milling about
• Monkey around
• Mooching around
• More or less
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Muck about
• My Boomerang Won't Come Back (Charlie Drake song)
• My ship has come in
• Near and dear to my heart
• Near death experience
• Near miss
• Near sighted
• Near the knuckle
• Near to one's heart
• Nearly new
• Next generation
• Next in line to the throne
• Next to myself, I like BVD best (BVD Underwear advertising slogan)
• Next to nothing
• Ninth inning (A baseball expression meaning an event or process is near the end)
• Nose around
• Not a hundred miles away
• Not just nearly clean, but really clean (Ariel Ultra advertising slogan)
• Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about (The Beatles song lyric)
• Nothing to worry your pretty little head about
• Nothing to write home about
• Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party
• Now they whisper to her not about her (Cashmere Bouquet Soap advertising slogan)
• On deck (A baseball expression meaning next in line)
• On the bubble
• Order about
• Out and about
• Piss about
• Play around
• Point blank range
• Ponce about
• Potter about
• Proximity marketing
• Pussyfoot around
• Rain, rain go away, come again another day (line from nursery rhyme)
• Read all about it
• Ring around the collar (Wisk detergent advertising slogan)
• Rock And Roll Dreams Come True (Meatloaf song)
• Rock Around The Clock (Bill Haley song)
• Rough around the edges
• Run rings around
• Run toward the sound of gunfire
• Sail close to the wind
• Sanka, everything you love about coffee (Sanka advertising slogan)
• Scouting about
• Scratch around
• Screw around
• Scrub around it
• Shop Around (Smokey Robinson song)
• Shop around
• Sitting next to Nellie
• Skim milk does not come from skinny cows (Alba Dry Milk advertising slogan)
• Sleep around
• Smoke around the campfire
• So creamy it's almost fattening (Burma Shave Shaving Cream advertising slogan)
• Some day my prince will come
• Some day my prints will come
• Something About You (Four Tops song)
• Something to crow about
• Sorry about that, Chief. (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• Stone's throw
• Stop faffing about
• Stop messing about (A catchphrase from Kenneth Williams)
• Take it to the next level
• Talks about talks
• Taste Me! Taste Me! Come on and Taste Me! (Doral Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Tell me about it
• Tell them about the honey, mummy (Sugar Puffs advertising slogan)
• Thank you, come again (A catchphrase from Apu In The Simpsons)
• That just about takes the biscuit
• That's about it
• That's about the size of it
• The Next America (Nickname of Columbia Maryland)
• The best is yet to come
• The chickens have come home to roost
• The dim distant past
• The next president of the United States
• The next small thing
• The shape of things to come
• The shot heard around the world
• The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things
• The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, Carroll)
• The wheel has come full circle
• The wheels have come off
• The world around one
• There's Something About Mary (Cameron Diaz movie)
• There's a lot of it about (A catchphrase from Spike Milligan)
• There's not much in it
• There's something about her
• There's something funny about it
• There's too much arson about here
• They never come back
• Things to come
• This neck of the woods
• This time next year we will be millionaires (A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses)
• Throw your money around
• Throw your weight about
• Till the cows come home
• To kingdom come
• Too Busy Thinking About My Baby (Marvin Gaye song)
• Too close for comfort
• Too close to call
• Tool around
• Toward this end
• Twist around your little finger
• Up and about
• Up close and personal
• Watch out there's a Humphrey about (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• We will cross that bridge when we come to it
• What goes around comes around
• What goes up must come down
• What has come over you?
• What's It All About, Alfie? (Michael Caine movie)
• What's all the fuss about?
• When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions
• When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
• When you come to think of it
• Why don't you come up sometime and see me? (She Done Him Wrong)
• Within spitting distance
• Within striking distance
• Wrapped around your little finger
• You are now free to move about the country (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
• You can't keep quiet about a Wispa (Cadbury's Wispa advertising slogan)
• You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore
• You'd be so nice to come home to
• You've come a long way, baby (Virginia Slims Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Your next car (Chrysler advertising slogan)

Related

• As near as dammit
• Coming to a screen near you
• Companion plant (a plant grown near to another species to enhance its growth)
• Far better for being near to you (The Chesham Building Society advertising slogan)
• Near and dear to my heart
• Near death experience
• Near miss
• Near sighted
• Near the knuckle
• Near to one's heart
• Ninth inning (A baseball expression meaning an event or process is near the end)