Officer Phrases

Phrases

• Ace Ventura Pet Detective (Jim Carrey movie)
• As bold as brass
• Back office bean counter
• Big Phil (Nickname of football manager Luiz Felipe Scolari)
• Big Sam (Nickname of football manager Sam Allardyce)
• Brass In Pocket (The Pretenders song)
• Brass monkey weather
• Brass tacks (Cockney rhyming slang for facts)
• Build A Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies (Dilbert)
• Canteen culture (boorish behaviour by rank and file police or soldiers)
• Captain America (Nickname of footballer Claudio Reyna)
• Captain Bly (Nickname of baseball player Bert Blyleven)
• Captain Bob (Nickname of Robert Maxwell)
• Captain Brassbound's Conversion
• Captain Canada (Nickname of basketball player Steve Nash)
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Louis de Bernieres book)
• Captain Crunch (Nickname of basketball player Jalen Rose)
• Captain Funkie Fresh (Nickname of Eddie Winslow (Darius McCrary))
• Captain Hook (Nickname of baseball manager George Anderson)
• Captain Jack (Nickname of basketball player Stephen Jackson)
• Captain Kirk (Nickname of basketball player Kirk Hinrich)
• Captain Marvel (Nickname of footballer Bryan Robson)
• Captain Underpants And The Invasion Of The Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space (Dav Pilkey book)
• Captain Underpants And The Perilous Plot Of Professor Poopypants (Dav Pilkey book)
• Captain Underpants And The Wrath Of The Wicked Wedgie Woman (Dav Pilkey book)
• Captain of industry
• Captain's log... (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
• Don't Stand So Close To Me (Police song)
• Don't mess with Texas
• Don't mess with my head
• Ethnic stocking (the appointment to political office on the basis of ethnicity)
• Every Breath You Take (The Police song)
• Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (Police song)
• Executive decision
• Frightful mess
• Get down to brass tacks
• Golden Guus (Nickname of football manager Guus Hiddink)
• Have a Captain Cook (Cockney rhyming slang for look)
• Helping the police with their enquiries
• Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into (A catchphrase from Laurel And Hardy)
• High office
• Hot mess
• Hounded out of office
• I Shot The Sheriff (Eric Clapton song)
• Just another day at the office
• Kiss me Hardy (Admiral Nelson quotation)
• Known to the police
• Land office business
• Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
• Mess around
• Message in A Bottle (Police song)
• Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish (Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band song)
• No manager ever got fired for buying IBM (IBM advertising slogan)
• Office politics
• Office space
• Office work
• Officers and gentlemen
• Only the best for the Captain's table (Birdseye advertising slogan)
• Out of office
• Papa Bear Colonel (Nickname of Robert Hogan (Bob Crane))
• Police state
• Post early for Christmas (Post Office advertising slogan)
• Puddin' Head (Nickname of Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan))
• Rear admiral (naval rank)
• 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
• The Adventure of the Dying Detective (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Brass Cupcake (Nickname of Dee Dee McCall (Stepfanie Kramer))
• The Captain (Nickname of Kareem Abdul Jabbar)
• The French Lieutenant's Woman (Jeremy Irons / Meryl Streep movie)
• The Mahatma (Nickname of Branch Rickey executive)
• The Special One (Nickname of football manager Jose Mourinho)
• There's no place like HBO (Home Box Office advertising slogan)
• Thought police
• Walking On The Moon (The Police song)
• We never sleep (Pinkerton's Detective Agency advertising slogan)
• Where there's muck there's brass
• With brass knobs on