Phrase thesaurus
Nine Phrases
117 phrases and expressions related to "nine".
Phrases
- 69 position
- 99.44% pure (Ivory Soap advertising slogan)
- A diller, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar
- A stitch in time saves nine
- As nice as ninepence
- As queer as a nine bob note
- As right as ninepence
- Back number
- Beer and sandwiches at Number 10
- Behind the eight ball
- Brighton line (Bingo call for number fifty nine)
- Cat has nine lives
- Clickety click (Bingo call for number sixty six)
- Complex number (a number containing real and imaginary parts)
- Count to ten
- Cushy number
- Do a number on
- Doctor's Orders (Bingo call for number nine)
- Domestos kills ninety-nine per cent of all known germs (Domestos Bleach advertising slogan)
- Dressed up to the nines
- Droopy drawers (Bingo call for number forty four)
- Eight Days A Week (Beatles song)
- Eight maids a-milking (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
- Eight out of ten cats prefer it (Whiskas Cat Food advertising slogan)
- Eight ways to Sunday
- Employee Number 8 (Nickname of Antoine Walker)
- Front nine (The first nine holes in a game of golf)
- Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration (Thomas Edison quotation)
- Got your number
- Handbags at ten paces
- Hang ten
- I've got your number
- It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen (the opening line of Nineteen Eighty-Four)
- Key of the door (Bingo call for number twenty one)
- Legs eleven (Bingo call for number eleven)
- Life's not all beer and skittles
- Little black number
- Look after number one
- Look out for number one
- Love Potion Number Nine (Leiber and Stoller song)
- Lucky number seven
- Name, rank, and serial number
- Nine To Five (Lily Tomlin / Dolly Parton / Jane Fonda movie)
- Nine While Nine (The Sisters Of Mercy song)
- Nine days' wonder
- Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
- Nine tailors make a man
- Nine while nine
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell book)
- Nineteen to the dozen
- Nineteenth hole
- Number 10 Downing Street (address of the British Prime Minister)
- Number Six (Pseudonym of Peter Smith The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan))
- Number crunching
- Number one
- Number one concubine (name given to the partner of Bertrand Russell)
- Number one son
- Number two
- Number unobtainable
- On cloud nine
- One over the eight
- One volunteer is worth ten pressed men
- Parsley seed goes nine times to the devil
- Party Like It's 1999 (Prince song)
- Perfect ten
- Perfume worth 9 guineas an ounce (Camay Soap advertising slogan)
- Pieces of eight
- Possession is nine tenths of the law
- Public Enemy Number One (Nickname of John Dillinger)
- Revolution 9 (Beatles song)
- Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
- Seriously ten (Network Ten Australia advertising slogan)
- Snakes alive (Bingo call for number fifty five)
- So easy to use, no wonder it's number one (AOL advertising slogan)
- Ten a penny
- Ten green bottles sitting on the wall
- Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
- Ten one hundred
- Ten summersets he'll undertake on solid ground (Beatles song lyric)
- That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them
- The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men (line from nursery rhyme)
- The Nine Days Queen (Nickname of Lady Jane Grey)
- The Ten Commandments (Charlton Heston movie)
- The Top Ten
- The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner (9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan)
- The magic number
- Three score and ten
- Times without number
- Tonight's top ten list (A catchphrase from David Letterman In The Late Show)
- Top of the shop (Bingo call for number ninety)
- Two and eight (Cockney rhyming slang for state)
- Two fat ladies (Bingo call for number eighty eight)
- Two four six eight who do we appreciate (cheerleader chant)
- Two little ducks (Bingo call for number twenty two)
- Unlucky for some (Bingo call for number thirteen)
- Was she worth it (Bingo call for number fifty six)
- We're number two. We try harder (Avis Rent-a-Car advertising slogan)
- Whole nine yards
- Your starter for ten (A catchphrase from University Challenge)
Related
- A stitch in time saves nine
- As queer as a nine bob note
- Brighton line (Bingo call for number fifty nine)
- Cat has nine lives
- Doctor's Orders (Bingo call for number nine)
- Front nine (The first nine holes in a game of golf)
- Love Potion Number Nine (Leiber and Stoller song)
- Nine To Five (Lily Tomlin / Dolly Parton / Jane Fonda movie)
- Nine While Nine (The Sisters Of Mercy song)
- Nine days' wonder
- Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
- Nine tailors make a man
- Nine while nine
- On cloud nine
- Parsley seed goes nine times to the devil
- Possession is nine tenths of the law
- The Nine Days Queen (Nickname of Lady Jane Grey)
- Whole nine yards