Negative Phrases

Phrases

• A picture paints a thousand words
• And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie book)
• As pretty as a picture
• Bar none
• Beauty contest (a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy)
• Beauty parade (a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy)
• Big picture
• Click bait (an eye ctaching word or image on a website)
• Contrary to popular opinion
• Do I have to paint you a picture?
• Every picture tells a story (Doanes Backache Kidney Pills advertising slogan)
• Film at eleven
• Get the picture
• Graven image
• Home For The Holidays (film starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr.)
• Image is everything
• In the picture
• Is your film as good as Gold? (Kodak advertising slogan)
• Jack of all trades but master of none
• Klunk! Klick, every trip (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
• Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow (line from nursery rhyme)
• Mirror image
• Motion picture
• Motion picture event
• Negative equity
• Negatively privilege
• None other than
• None starter
• None the wiser
• None the worse for
• None too pleased
• None too shabby
• On the contrary
• Out of the picture
• Picture of health
• Picture perfect
• Primal Fear (film starring Richard Gere)
• Primal Rage (film and video game)
• Put in the picture
• Revenge Of The Nerds (1984 film)
• Second to none
• See the bigger picture
• Spitting image
• Style over substance (an emphasis on image rather than issues)
• Suicide is painless (title of the theme song to MASH tv series and film)
• The Dream Factory (film or television studio where idealised concepts are manufactured - especially Hollywood)
• The Invisible Man (HG Wells story and later a film)
• The Last Picture Show (Jeff Bridges movie)
• The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde book)
• There are none so blind as those that will not see
• There's none so blind as those who will not see
• There's none so deaf as they that will not hear
• Think once, think twice, think bike (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
• This little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none (line from nursery rhyme)
• Two for me, none for you! (Twix advertising slogan)
• War movie (a film with war as the subject matter)
• What's wrong with this picture?