Ounce Phrases

Phrases

• A glass and a half in every half pound (Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate advertising slogan)
• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
• Half a pound of tuppenny rice, half a pound of treacle (line from nursery rhyme)
• In for a penny in for a pound
• Not many of them to the pound
• Penny wise, pound foolish
• Perfume worth 9 guineas an ounce (Camay Soap advertising slogan)
• Pink pound
• Pound for pound
• Pound of flesh
• Pound the pavement

• Pull your weight
• Punching above his weight
• Solo pound
• Take the weight off your feet
• Taste, not waist (Weight Watchers Frozen Meals advertising slogan)
• The pound in your pocket
• Throw your weight about
• Watching your weight
• Weight off my mind
• Worth one's weight in gold