Observe Phrases

Phrases

• A cat may look at a king
• A wandering eye
• Absolute pitch (the ability to determine a musical note by ear)
• Advanced notice
• All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye (Christopher Brookmyer book)
• All my eye and Betty Martin
• Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life (Monty Python's Flying Circus song)
• Am catching
• An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
• Arm candy
• As far as the eye can see
• As queer as a nine bob note
• At a moment's notice
• Be the change that you wish to see in the world (Mahatma Gandhi quotation)
• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
• Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
• Bird's eye view
• Blank look
• Bring your A game (perform to your best ability)
• Can't see beyond the end of your nose
• Can't see the wood for the trees
• Cast an eye over
• Catch your eye
• Celebrate the Moments of Your Life (General Foods International Coffee advertising slogan)
• Christmas is a time to believe in things you can't see (3M Company Scotch Tape advertising slogan)
• Clapped eyes on
• Click bait (an eye ctaching word or image on a website)
• Come home to Birds Eye Country (Birds Eye Frozen Foods advertising slogan)
• Come to the Central Park Zoo Cafeteria. Let the animals watch you eat for a change (Central Park Zoo advertising slogan)
• Come up and see me sometime (A catchphrase from Mae West)
• Cutting remark
• Dirty look
• Distance vision (the ability to see distant objects)
• Does my bum look big in this? (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Don't Look Now (Julie Christie / Donald Sutherland movie)
• Don't know which way to look
• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
• Don't shoot until you can see the whites of their eyes
• Eye candy
• Eye for a bargain
• Eye it try it buy it! (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
• Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
• Eye of the Tiger (Survivor song)
• Eye of the storm
• Eye popping
• Eye someone up and down
• Eye to eye
• Eye up the competition
• Eye watering
• Faraway look
• Fly on the wall
• Follow in the footsteps of
• Follow suit
• Follow the yellow brick road
• Follow your heart
• Follow your nose (Froot Loops advertising slogan)
• For great lager, follow the bear (Hoffmeister lager advertising slogan)
• Funny, you don't look Jewish
• Get your eye in
• Give one's eye teeth for
• Go to see a man about a dog
• God is dead (philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche)
• Good mornings follow a good Nytol (Nytol Sleeping Pills advertising slogan)
• Got my eye in
• Got my eye on
• Half an eye
• Hand in your notice
• Hard act to follow
• Hate watch (viewing a television programme in order to mock it)
• Have a Captain Cook (Cockney rhyming slang for look)
• Have a look
• Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil
• Here's mud in your eye
• Here's one in your eye
• Honour and obey
• I Can See Clearly Now (Johnny Cash and Jimmy Cliff song and Nescafe advertising slogan)
• I believe in angels, something good in everything I see (ABBA lyric)
• I call them like I see them
• I can see you standing over a hot stove, but I can't see the stove (Groucho Marx line)
• I could see you a mile off
• I look at the world and I notice it's turning (The Beatles song lyric)
• I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
• I see nothing - nothing! (A catchphrase from Hogan's Heroes)
• I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips
• I spy with my little eye
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• I think therefore I am (philosophical comment by Rene Descartes)
• I'll Follow The Sun (The Beatles song)
• I'll see you all right
• I've got my eye on you
• I've got your number
• If you haven't looked at Ford lately, look again (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• In a pig's eye
• In my mind's eye, Horatio
• In the blink of an eye
• In the public eye
• In the twinkling of an eye
• Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
• Is this a dagger which I see before me?
• It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
• It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
• Just a glint in his father's eye
• Just watch
• Keep a weather eye open
• Keep an eye on
• Keep an eye open
• Keep an eye out
• Keep tabs on
• Keep track of
• Keep watch
• Keep your eye on the ball
• Keep your eyes on the prize
• Keep your eyes peeled
• Keep your finger on the pulse
• Lay eyes on
• Let the dog see the rabbit
• Let's see the colour of your money
• Lo and behold
• Long time no see
• Look Ma, no cavities! (Crest Toothpaste advertising slogan)
• Look a fright
• Look after number one
• Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves
• Look alive
• Look and feel
• Look away now
• Look before you leap
• Look both ways
• Look daggers
• Look death in the eye
• Look down on
• Look down your nose
• Look for the Golden Arches (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Look in on
• Look into
• Look lively
• Look ma, no hands!
• Look no further
• Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair (from a poem by Shelley)

• Look out
• Look out for number one
• Look over
• Look over your shoulder
• Look sharp
• Look sharp, feel sharp (Gillette advertising slogan)
• Look someone up and down
• Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls! (A catchphrase from Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In)
• Look the other way
• Look to your laurels
• Look up to
• Look what the cat dragged in
• Look who's talking?
• Look you bach
• Look your best while you wear our least (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• Look, no hands
• Man is born free and is everywhere in chains (philosophical comment by Rousseau)
• Meet one's eye
• Monkey see: monkey do
• More than meets the eye
• Must see TV (NBC, advertising slogan)
• Never follow (Audi advertising slogan)
• Never look a gift horse in the mouth
• Never look back
• Nice to see you, to see you nice (A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth)
• Night Watch (Terry Pratchett book)
• No F.T. no comment (Financial Times Newspaper advertising slogan)
• No comment
• Not A Dry Eye In The House (Meatloaf song)
• Not a dry eye in the house
• Not on my watch
• Not so as you'd notice
• Nothing more to see
• Now you see it, now you don't
• Obey your thirst (Sprite advertising slogan)
• Old fashioned look
• One in the eye
• Over the teeth and through the gums, look out stomach here it comes
• People watching
• Phone it in (perform an act in an uncommitted disinterested manner)
• Places to go, people to see, things to do
• Put a sparkle in your eye
• Quicker than the eye
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes
• Say what you see (A catchphrase from Catchphrase)
• See America at see level (Amtrak advertising slogan)
• See Naples and die
• See You Late Alligator (Bill Haley song)
• See a penny and pick it up
• See a pin and pick it up
• See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day
• See eye to eye
• See here
• See how it runs! (Cerebos salt advertising slogan)
• See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
• See it for what it is
• See it out
• See no evil, hear no evil speak no evil
• See red
• See something through
• See that girl, watch that scene (ABBA lyric)
• See the USA in a Chevrolet (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
• See the back of someone
• See the bigger picture
• See the elephant
• See the face you love light up with Terry's All Gold (Terrys Chocolates advertising slogan)
• See things in a different light
• See what brown can do for you (UPS advertising slogan)
• See what happens
• See what the future has in store (Future Shop advertising slogan)
• See what we mean (Canon advertising slogan)
• See which way the cat jumps
• See you anon
• See you in court
• See you later alligator
• See you way clear
• See yourself out
• Side eye (a sidelong glance)
• Sit up and take notice
• Sleep with one eye open
• Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch
• Spit in the eye of
• Stop, Look and Listen; remember the Green Cross Code (UK Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• Suck it and see
• Sweet as the moment when the pod went 'pop' (Birds Eye Peas advertising slogan)
• Take a butchers (Cockney rhyming slang for look)
• Take a cold hard look
• Take a gander
• Take note of
• The Black Watch (Nickname of The Royal Highland Regiment)
• The Eye into the Eyes (CBS advertising slogan)
• The all seeing eye
• The apple of his eye
• The eye in the sky
• The hand is quicker than the eye
• The little dog laughed to see such fun
• The look is Immac-ulate (Immac Depilatory advertising slogan)
• The one to watch (Channel 7 Australia advertising slogan)
• There are none so blind as those that will not see
• There's none so blind as those who will not see
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• Three blind mice, see how they run (line from nursery rhyme)
• Through the eye of a needle
• Trust and obey
• Turn a blind eye
• Watch and learn
• Watch my chops
• Watch my smoke
• Watch out
• Watch out there's a Humphrey about (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Watch over
• Watch the birdy
• Watch the sparks fly
• Watch the time
• Watch the world go by
• Watch this space
• Watch you like a hawk
• Watch your back
• Watch your language
• Watch your mouth
• Watch your step
• We love to see you smile (Mcdonalds advertising slogan)
• We're off to see the wizard
• What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over
• What you see is what you get
• Whatever it is I think I see becomes a Tootsie Roll to me! (Tootsie Rolls advertising slogan)
• White man's watch
• Why don't you come up sometime and see me? (She Done Him Wrong)
• Window on the world
• With a jaundiced eye
• Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
• You cannot step into the same river twice (philosophical comment by Heraclitus)
• You look as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards
• You look as though you've seen the ghost
• You look... Mahvelous! (A catchphrase from Saturday Night Live)
• You should see what's on HGTV (HGTV advertising slogan)
• You watch, we listen (British Satellite Broadcasting advertising slogan)
• You won't see me for dust
• You'll look a little lovelier each day, with fabulous pink Camay (Camay Soap advertising slogan)