Object Phrases

Phrases

• A close thing
• A funny thing happened on the way to the theatre
• A goal in mind
• A good mind to
• A healthy mind in a healthy body
• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
• A little learning is a dangerous thing (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• A load off your mind
• A mind is a terrible thing to waste (United Negro College Fund advertising slogan)
• A product of the master mind (Senior Service cigarettes advertising slogan)
• A slip of a thing
• A thing of beauty is a joy forever (from a poem by Keats)
• Aim high
• Always On My Mind (Brenda Lee and Elvis Presley song)
• An ill-favoured thing sir, but mine own
• And the next object is (A catchphrase from Twenty Questions)
• Are you out of your Vulcan mind? (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• Article of faith
• At the back of my mind
• Bear in mind
• Before you make up your mind, open it (Irish Independent advertising slogan)
• Better by design
• Blow your mind
• Bright young thing
• Call to mind
• Carolina In My Mind (James Taylor song)
• Cast your mind back
• Chance would be a fine thing
• Change the subject
• Change your mind
• Comes to mind
• Comes to the same thing
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Queen song)
• Cross your mind
• Design flaw
• Design for life
• Distance vision (the ability to see distant objects)
• Do the wild thing
• Do your own thing
• Empire State of Mind (Jay-Z with Alicia Keys song)
• Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Jim Carey movie)
• Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (Police song)
• Fair market value (a reasonable price for an article for sale)
• Feed one's mind
• Figure painting (a form of painting in which the human body is the subject)
• First thing
• Georgia On My Mind (Ray Charles song)
• Have a mind to
• Have a thing about
• Have half a mind to
• Here's the thing
• High ticket item (a consumer good that would constitute a major expense when bought)
• I can't believe I ate the whole thing (Alka Seltzer advertising slogan)
• If you change your mind, I'm the first in line (ABBA lyric)
• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself
• In my mind's eye, Horatio
• In the back of my mind
• Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results (Albert Einstein quotation)
• It concentrates the mind wonderfully
• It don't mean a thing if it ain't got swing
• It's a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done
• It's a red thing (Tizer advertising slogan)
• It's all in the mind
• It's the real thing (Coca Cola advertising slogan)
• Item du jour
• Just one more thing (A catchphrase from Columbo)
• Keep an open mind
• Keep in mind
• Landscape painting (a form of painting in which the natural world is the subject)
• Let me make one thing perfectly clear
• Let's Call The Whole Thing Off (Irving Berlin song)
• Life is just one damned thing after another
• Lodge a complaint
• Lodge an objection
• Love is the greatest thing
• Mind blowing
• Mind boggling
• Mind games

• Mind how you go (A catchphrase from Dixon of Dock Green)
• Mind map
• Mind numbing
• Mind of your own
• Mind over matter
• Mind over matter: if you don't mind it don't matter
• Mind share
• Mind the gap
• Mind the time
• Mind your backs
• Mind your language
• Mind your manners
• Mind your own beeswax
• Mind your own business
• Mind your p's and q's
• Money is no object
• Neither one thing nor the other
• Never mind
• Never mind the buzzcocks
• Object lesson
• Occupy one's mind
• Of unsound mind
• One thing leads to another
• One track mind
• Onto a good thing
• Open mouth: closed mind
• Out of sight, out of mind
• Out of your mind
• Peace of mind
• Piece of my mind
• Poor thing but mine own
• Portrait painting (a form of painting in which the human face is the subject)
• Put your mind at rest
• Revenge sex (sex with the intention of infecting a partner with Aids)
• Score an own goal
• Set your mind at ease
• Sitting target
• Soft target
• Softness is a thing called Comfort (Comfort fabric conditioner advertising slogan)
• Speak your mind
• Spring to mind
• State of mind
• Still life (a form of painting in which inanimate objects are the subject)
• Sure thing
• Take aim
• Take your mind of it
• Teach someone a thing or two
• That Obscure Object Of Desire (Luis Bunuel movie)
• The balance of his mind was disturbed
• The best thing since sliced bread
• The genuine article (Budweiser Beer advertising slogan)
• The lady doth protest too much, methinks (from Hamlet by Shakespeare)
• The mind boggles
• The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n (from a poem by Milton)
• The next small thing
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (Political slogan)
• The play's the thing
• The vision thing
• There's no such thing as a free lunch
• There's no such thing as bad publicity
• Tidy mind
• Time Out Of Mind (Bob Dylan song)
• To every thing there is a season
• To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive
• Too much of a good thing
• Too much of a good thing is wonderful
• Travel broadens the mind
• Under protest
• Unexpected item in bagging area
• Vacation is a world where there are no locks on the doors or the mind or the body (Club Med Resorts advertising slogan)
• War movie (a film with war as the subject matter)
• Wardrobe malfunction (when an item of clothing slips out of place to expose part of the body - typically a woman's breast)
• We aim to please
• We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just one thing. The World's Best Tobacco (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Weight off my mind
• What with one thing and another
• Wild Thing (Nickname of Anderson Varejo)
• You can have too much of a good thing
• You've Got a Good Thing Going (Kent Cigarettes advertising slogan)