Occupation Phrases

Phrases

• A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play (Mars Chocolate advertising slogan)
• A dirty business
• A fine line
• A head for business and a body for sin
• A lot on your plate (having many responsibilities)
• A nod is as good as a wink to a blind bat (A line from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• A work in progress
• Ads work harder in the new Granada (Granada advertising slogan)
• All aboard the Skylark (A line from Noah and Nelly)
• All in a day's work
• All men are cremated equal (Spike Milligan line)
• All my own work
• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
• Alpha Mom (an ambitious mother who aims to excel at work while raising children)
• America's Oldest Living Teenager (Nickname of game show host Dick Clark)
• Are your friends living beyond your means? (Chivas Regal Scotch advertising slogan)
• As patient as Job
• Back in business
• Balance of trade
• Beat the living crap out of
• Beat the living daylights out of
• Beat the living snot out of
• Better things for better living, through chemistry (Dupont advertising slogan)
• Big Blue (Nickname of International Business Machines (IBM))
• Blessed are the cheese makers (line from Monty Python's Life of Brian)
• Blow job
• Boob job
• Botched job
• Brighton line (Bingo call for number fifty nine)
• Bury yourself in your work
• Business acumen
• Business as usual
• Business at hand
• Business before pleasure
• Business class
• Business end
• Business is beautiful (Sprint advertising slogan)
• Business is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
• Business jet
• Business need
• Business or pleasure
• Business partner
• Business plan
• Business to business
• Cake or death (line from Eddie Izzard comedy)
• Cap and trade (A policy tool aimed at protecting the environment)
• Career limiting move
• Career path
• Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! (line from the movie 25th Hour)
• Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard (Spike Milligan line)
• Close enough for government work
• Come down to the line
• Come into line
• Comparison With the Living Artist Reveals No Difference (Edison Records advertising slogan)
• Contraceptives should be used on all conceivable occasions (Spike Milligan line)
• Cross the line
• Daily grind (the daily routine of a dull or boring job)
• Dirty work at the crossroads
• Do a line
• Do the business
• Do your business
• Doing a land-office business
• Doing a sterling job
• Don't give up the day job
• Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars (line from the movie Now, Voyager)
• Don't mix business with pleasure
• Donkey work
• Draw a line in the sand
• Draw the line
• Drop me a line
• Eight maids a-milking (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Eke out a living
• Eleven pipers piping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• End of the line
• Every time a bell rings, an angel gets it's wings (line from It's A Wonderful Life)
• Everybody out (A catchphrase from The Rag Trade)
• Fair Trade
• Fall down on the job
• Fall into line
• Five golden rings (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• For successful living (Diesel advertising slogan)
• For those who like the trade rough (Travis aftershave advertising slogan)
• Form follows function
• Four calling birds (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Free trade
• Front line
• Get behind in your work
• Get busy living, or get busy dying (line from the movie The Shawshank Redemption)
• Get down to business
• Getting there is half the fun (Cunard Line advertising slogan)
• Go about your business
• Go to work on an egg (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Go, and never darken my towels again (Groucho Marx line)
• Hand a line
• Hand job
• Hard work never did anyone any harm
• Hard work never killed anyone
• Hatchet job
• Have your work cut out for you
• Hazards of the job
• He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy (line from the movie Life of Brian)
• Hold down a job
• Hold the line
• Hook line and sinker
• I Walk The Line (Johnny Cash song)
• I can see you standing over a hot stove, but I can't see the stove (Groucho Marx line)
• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work (Thomas Edison quotation)
• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception (Groucho Marx line)
• I told you I was ill (Spike Milligan line inscribed on his gravestone)
• I'll make it my business
• I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! (line from the movie Network)
• I'm only doing my job
• If a job is worth doing it is worth doing well
• If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers
• If you change your mind, I'm the first in line (ABBA lyric)
• Imagination at Work (General Electric advertising slogan)
• In line for
• In living memory
• In the land of the living
• In the line of duty
• In the line of fire
• Infamy Infamy! They've all got it in for me! (Kenneth Williams line in Carry On Cleo)
• Inside job
• It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it (A catchphrase from Nick Stone In Tightrope)
• It's a living
• Jump the line
• Just the job
• Keep in line
• Keep up the good work
• Land office business
• Lay it on the line
• Leave the gun, take the cannoli (line from The Godfather)
• Lie down on the job
• Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon (Woody Allen line)
• Life is our life's Work (Pfizer advertising slogan)
• Like nobody's business
• Like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic
• Line abreast
• Line astern
• Line is full of misery and lonliness and it's over much too soon (Woody Allen line)
• Line of attack
• Line of least resistance
• Line of sight
• Line of work
• Line your pockets
• Living as man and wife
• Living in a box
• Living in sin
• Living is easy with eyes closed (Beatles song lyric)
• Living legend
• Living off the fat of the land
• Living on borrowed time
• Living the dream
• Living together
• Living well is the best revenge
• Living will
• Maid of all work
• Make a good job of it
• Make light work of
• Make short work of
• Make the best of a bad job
• Mama always said that life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get (line from the movie Forrest Gump)
• Many hands make light work
• Mean business
• Mendoza line (A baseball expression denoting a line marking a very poor performance)
• Mind your own business
• Monkey business
• Moving at the speed of business (UPS advertising slogan)
• My one regret in life is that I am not someone else (Woody Allen line)
• Nasty piece of work
• Never do a stroke of work
• Next in line to the throne
• Nice work if you can get it
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• No job too small
• Nudge nudge, wink wink (A line from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• Occupational hazard
• Off line
• Office work
• On deck (A baseball expression meaning next in line)
• On the job
• On the job training
• One toe over the line
• Only fools and horses work
• Open for business
• Out of line
• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read (Groucho Marx line)
• Pardon me for living
• Party line
• Picket line
• Please hold the line
• Pressure of work
• Put-up job
• Quality is job one (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Rag trade
• Real piece of work
• Risky business
• Rough trade
• Run Forrest, Run! (line from the movie Forrest Gump)
• Rush job
• Saturday's child works hard for a living
• Scare the living daylights out of
• Scrape a living
• Seeing small business differently (SBC Communications advertising slogan)
• Seriously though, he's doing a grand job (A catchphrase from David Frost)
• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Shoot someone a line
• Sign on the dotted line
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Snow job
• Sophisticated living
• Spade work
• Starting line up
• Step out of line
• Stock in trade
• Stop, or my mom will shoot (line from Sylvestor Stallone movie)
• Strictly business
• Summertime, And The Living Is Easy (George Gershwin song)
• Summertime, and the living is easy
• Take a hard line
• Taking care of business
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Best Second Banana in the Business (Nickname of Art Carney)
• The Devil finds work for idle hands to do
• The Internet at Work (UUNET advertising slogan)
• The Italian Job (Michael Caine movie)
• The Living Death (Nickname of Lew Jenkins)
• The Rag Trade (BBC comedy television series)
• The Show Business Capital Of The World (Nickname of Hollywood California)
• The Smartest Dumbbell in the History of Show Business (Nickname of comedienne Gracie Allen)
• The bottom line
• The bottom line is the bottom line is the bottom line
• The business
• The business of America is business
• The finishing line
• The lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep (Woody Allen line)
• The oldest profession
• The patience of Job
• The right man for the job
• The right tool for the job
• The right tools for the job
• The thin red line
• The toughest job you'll ever love (United States Peace Corps advertising slogan)
• The unexamined life is not worth living (philosophical opinion by Socrates)
• The valley of the shadow of death (line from the Psalm 23)
• The worst in living memory
• There's No Business Like Show Business (Judy Garland song)
• These go to eleven (line from the movie This Is Spinal Tap)
• This Woman's Work (Kate Bush song)
• This line of business
• This line of country
• Three French hens (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Three line whip
• Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• To infinty and beyond (line from the movie Toy Story)
• To make that tough job easier - you deserve M&M candy (M&Ms advertising slogan)
• Toe the line
• Too Much Monkey Business (Chuck Berry song)
• Tools of the trade
• Trade down
• Treading a fine line
• Tricks of the trade
• Twelve drummers drumming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Two turtle doves (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Up and down like the Ottoman Empire (line from Monty Python's Life Of Brian)
• Wait in line
• We Can Work It Out (Beatles song)
• We are going to need considerably bigger buns (line from Calendar Girls)
• We make things that make communications work (Lucent Technologies advertising slogan)
• We mean business
• Well, nobody's perfect (line from the movie Some Like It Hot)
• What a piece of work is man
• What we have here is a failure to communicate (line from Cool Hand Luke)
• Whistle while you work
• Why do only fools and horses work?
• Woman's work is never done
• Work both sides of the street
• Work expands so as to fill the time available
• Work hard. Fly right (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• Work it
• Work itself up into a lather
• Work life balance
• Work like a Trojan
• Work like a beaver
• Work like a dog
• Work of art
• Work one's fingers to the bone
• Work the phone
• Work the rabbit's foot on
• Work to rule
• Work wonders
• Work your ass off
• Work your butt off
• Work your ticket
• Work yourself into the ground
• You can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff (Groucho Marx line)
• You don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps
• You got a friend in the business (Gateway 2000 advertising slogan)
• You say you want a revolution (Line from Beatles song)
• You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! (line from the Michael Caine movie The Italian Job)