Phrase thesaurus
Office Phrases
146 phrases and expressions related to "office".
Phrases
- A Room With A View (E M Forster book)
- A dirty business
- A head for business and a body for sin
- A room without books is like a body without a soul (Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation)
- Al desko (eating one's lunch while still working)
- As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
- Back in business
- Back office bean counter
- Back room boy
- Barrack room lawyer
- Bedroom tax (slang term for UK's removal of Spare Room Subsidy)
- Big Blue (Nickname of International Business Machines (IBM))
- Body building
- Boiler room (The location of a high pressure telephone sales team)
- Both sides of the desk
- Branch out
- Breakout space
- Breathing room
- Build A Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies (Dilbert)
- Building castles in the air
- 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
- Called on the carpet
- Comfort room (A euphemism for lavatory)
- Desk jockey
- Desk rage
- Die in harness
- Do the business
- Do your business
- Doing a land-office business
- Don't mix business with pleasure
- Driving a desk
- Elbow room
- Elvis has left the building
- Empire State Building
- Ethnic stocking (the appointment to political office on the basis of ethnicity)
- Far better for being near to you (The Chesham Building Society advertising slogan)
- Frasier has left the building (A catchphrase from Frasier)
- Friends don't let friends drive drunk (United States Department of Transportation advertising slogan)
- Front of house
- Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room (Dr.Strangelove)
- Get down to business
- Go about your business
- Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong (Pan-American Coffee Bureau advertising slogan)
- High office
- Hot desking
- Hounded out of office
- I'll make it my business
- Investments with Abbey endings (Abbey National Building Society advertising slogan)
- Just another day at the office
- Land office business
- Leave the room
- Like nobody's business
- Locker room humour
- Make room
- Mean business
- Mind your own business
- Monkey business
- Moving at the speed of business (UPS advertising slogan)
- My heart went boom when I crossed that room (Beatles song lyric)
- No room to breathe
- No room to swing a cat
- Office politics
- Office space
- Office work
- Olive branch
- Open for business
- Out of office
- Panic room
- Pencil pusher
- Post early for Christmas (Post Office advertising slogan)
- Powder room
- Revenue per available room
- Revenue per occupied room
- Risky business
- Room for improvement
- Room for one more inside
- Room to let
- Root and branch
- Seeing small business differently (SBC Communications advertising slogan)
- Shovel ready (a building project in which all the preliminaries have been arranged)
- Shut it (A catchphrase from The Office)
- Smallest room in the house
- Smoke-filled room
- Somebody somewhere wants a letter from you (British Post Office advertising slogan)
- Standing room only
- Step into my office
- Strictly business
- Swept into office
- Taking care of business
- That was easy (Staples advertising slogan)
- The Best Second Banana in the Business (Nickname of Art Carney)
- The Chrysler Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
- The Empire State Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
- The Mahatma (Nickname of Branch Rickey executive)
- The Secretary of Defense (Nickname of David Jones)
- The Secretary of Defense (Nickname of Garry Maddox)
- 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 business
- The business of America is business
- The elephant in the room
- The little boys' room
- There's No Business Like Show Business (Judy Garland song)
- There's always room for J-E-L-L-O (Jell-O advertising slogan)
- There's no place like HBO (Home Box Office advertising slogan)
- This line of business
- Too Much Monkey Business (Chuck Berry song)
- Visit the ladies room
- War room (the place where war plans are directed)
- We mean business
- We never sleep (Pinkerton's Detective Agency advertising slogan)
- We're with the Woolwich (Woolwich Building Society advertising slogan)
- Welfare agency
- White Room (Cream song)
- Wiggle room
- You got a friend in the business (Gateway 2000 advertising slogan)
Related
- Back office bean counter
- Build A Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies (Dilbert)
- Ethnic stocking (the appointment to political office on the basis of ethnicity)
- High office
- Hounded out of office
- Just another day at the office
- Land office business
- Office politics
- Office space
- Office work
- Out of office
- Post early for Christmas (Post Office advertising slogan)
- Shut it (A catchphrase from The Office)
- Somebody somewhere wants a letter from you (British Post Office advertising slogan)
- Step into my office
- Swept into office
- There's no place like HBO (Home Box Office advertising slogan)