Orphan Phrases

Phrases

• A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
• Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
• Child of God
• Child's play
• Doctor Foster went to Gloucester (line from nursery rhyme)
• Go with child
• Heavy with child
• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?
• Leave no child behind (Political slogan)
• Love child
• Orphan problem
• Parents who use drugs have kids who use drugs (The Partnership for a Drug-Free America advertising slogan)
• Problem child
• Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People song)
• Saturday's child works hard for a living
• Saviour sibling (a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease)
• Spare the rod and spoil the child
• Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan
• Sunday's child is full of grace
• The Man Child (Nickname of Dwight Howard)
• The Man with the Child in His Eyes (Kate Bush song)
• The Ragamuffin Man (Nickname of Lloyd Honeyghan)
• The Silence Of The Lambs (Jodie Foster / Anthony Hopkins movie)
• The child is father of the man (from a poem by Wordsworth)
• Thursday's child has far to go
• Voodoo Child (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Waifs and strays
• War baby (someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier)
• Wednesday's child has far to go
• Who's that behind those Foster Grants? (Foster Grant advertising slogan)
• With child