Phrase thesaurus
Open Phrases
230 phrases and expressions related to "open".
Phrases
- A golden key can open any door
- A, B, C, D, E, Your public library has arranged these in ways that make you cry, giggle, laugh, love, hate, wonder, ponder and understand (American Library Association advertising slogan)
- Active listening
- Air your dirty linen in public
- An eye-opening experience
- An open and shut case (a straightforward legal case)
- As free as a bird
- As honest as the day is long
- As one door closes, another one opens
- At death's door
- Back door man
- Be open with
- Beat a path to your door
- Before you make up your mind, open it (Irish Independent advertising slogan)
- Begin at the beginning
- Born Free (Virginia McKenna movie)
- Boy next door
- Brutally honest
- Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door
- Business as usual
- Buy one, get one free
- Calorie free
- Crack a book
- Crack a bottle
- Crack a tinnie
- Direct to your door
- Early doors
- Earn an honest penny
- Factory outlet (a shop where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
- Factory shop (a retail outlet where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
- Fancy free
- Foot in the door
- Footloose and fancy free
- For free
- Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
- Free Nelson Mandela
- Free and easy
- Free at last, thank God Almighty, I'm free at last
- Free enterprise with every issue (The Economist advertising slogan)
- Free for all
- Free form
- Free hand
- Free period
- Free range
- Free rein
- Free spirit
- Free trade
- Free will
- Free, gratis, and for nothing
- GNU is Not Unix (Free Software Foundation advertising slogan)
- Generous to a fault
- Get out of jail free
- Get out of jail free card (a means of avoiding justice - from the eponymous card in the Monopoly boardgame)
- Get your foot in the door
- Get your toe in the door
- Girl next door
- Go public
- Hands free
- His life's an open book
- Home free
- Honest Abe (Nickname of Abraham Lincoln)
- Honest Injun
- Honest broker
- Honest mistake
- Honest to God
- Honest to goodness
- I'm free! (A catchphrase from Mr Humphries In Are You Being Served?)
- In the public eye
- It doesn't take a minute to bag it and bin it (UK public advertisement advertising slogan)
- It's a Skoda, honest (Skoda advertising slogan)
- It's a free country
- It's no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted
- Joe Public
- Katy bar the door
- Keep a weather eye open
- Keep an eye open
- Keep an open mind
- Keep open house
- Keep the wolf from the door
- Keep your options open
- Key of the door (Bingo call for number twenty one)
- Klunk! Klick, every trip (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
- Knock on the door
- Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan song)
- Leave out door open
- Leave the door open for
- Leave your options open
- Leave yourself open
- Legal decent honest and truthful
- Let the games begin
- Live free or die
- Make a bolt for the door
- Make an honest woman of
- Make free with
- Man is born free and is everywhere in chains (philosophical comment by Rousseau)
- My door is always open
- Nothing is ever free
- Olly olly oxen free
- Open All Hours (Ronnie Barker television comedy series)
- Open Pandora's box
- Open book
- Open door policy
- Open fire
- Open for business
- Open government
- Open house
- Open marriage
- Open mouth: closed mind
- Open road
- Open season
- Open sesame
- Open source
- Open source software
- Open the bay doors HAL (A catchphrase from 2001, A Space Odyssey)
- Open the box (A catchphrase from Take Your Pick)
- Open the floodgates
- Open the kimono
- Open to doubt
- Open to offers
- Open verdict
- Open warfare (engaged in active fighting)
- Open wide
- Open your account
- Open your big mouth
- Open your eyes
- Open your heart
- Out in the open
- Poor but honest
- Prince of Mid Air (Nickname of World B.Free)
- Prolongs active life (PAL dog food advertising slogan)
- Public Enemy Number One (Nickname of John Dillinger)
- Public enemy
- Public sector
- Push at an open door
- Revenge mission (an attempt to seek active retribution)
- Revenue per available room
- Revolving door policy
- Rockin' In The Free World (Neil Young song)
- Scot free
- She bangs like the shithouse door
- Show the door
- Shut that door (A catchphrase from Larry Grayson)
- Slam the door
- Sleep with one eye open
- Smile, you're on Candid Camera (A catchphrase from Candid Camera)
- Stage door Johnny
- Starch free as a chip can be (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
- Stone Free (Jimi Hendrix song)
- Take the field (begin a sporting event or a military campaign)
- Take the money, open the box
- The Active voice
- The Free State (Nickname of the US state of Maryland)
- The best things in life are free
- The heavens opened
- The land of the free
- The leader of the free world
- The long and winding road that leads to your door (Beatles song lyric)
- The people's choice (a person or thing chosen by public acclamation)
- The public domain
- The public purse
- The truth shall set you free
- The world is your oyster
- There's no such thing as a free lunch
- Think once, think twice, think bike (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
- Three, four, knock at the door (line from nursery rhyme)
- Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun (McDonald's advertising slogan)
- Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking
- Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door (Beatles song lyric)
- Walk free
- Wash your dirty linen in public
- Weapons free
- Why buy the cow when the milk is free?
- Wide open spaces
- Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopaedia (Wikipedia advertising slogan)
- With open arms
- With your eyes open
- Work expands so as to fill the time available
- You Can't Con An Honest John (Mike Skinner - The Streets song)
- You are now free to move about the country (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
- You can't cheat an honest man
Related
- A golden key can open any door
- An open and shut case (a straightforward legal case)
- Be open with
- Before you make up your mind, open it (Irish Independent advertising slogan)
- His life's an open book
- Keep a weather eye open
- Keep an eye open
- Keep an open mind
- Keep open house
- Keep your options open
- Leave out door open
- Leave the door open for
- Leave your options open
- Leave yourself open
- My door is always open
- Open All Hours (Ronnie Barker television comedy series)
- Open Pandora's box
- Open book
- Open door policy
- Open fire
- Open for business
- Open government
- Open house
- Open marriage
- Open mouth: closed mind
- Open road
- Open season
- Open sesame
- Open source
- Open source software
- Open the bay doors HAL (A catchphrase from 2001, A Space Odyssey)
- Open the box (A catchphrase from Take Your Pick)
- Open the floodgates
- Open the kimono
- Open to doubt
- Open to offers
- Open verdict
- Open warfare (engaged in active fighting)
- Open wide
- Open your account
- Open your big mouth
- Open your eyes
- Open your heart
- Out in the open
- Push at an open door
- Sleep with one eye open
- Take the money, open the box
- Wide open spaces
- With open arms
- With your eyes open