Papa Phrases

Phrases

• As busy as a one armed paper hanger
• Baby father
• Bad paper
• Be like Dad, keep mum (WWII slogan)
• Big Daddy (Nickname of American football Dan Wilkinson)
• Big Daddy (Nickname of Idi Amin)
• Cake pop (A small piece of cake coated with chocolate)
• Come to papa
• Cool Papa (Nickname of baseball player James Bell)
• Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
• Dad's Army (BBC comedy television series)
• Daddy's little girl
• Disneyland daddy
• Don't panic (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• Drink, feck, arse (A catchphrase from Father Ted)
• Father Knows Best (American TV Show)
• Father Of The Bride (Steve Martin movie)
• Father Ted (BBC comedy television series)
• Father of The Atomic Bomb (Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer)
• Founding father
• Full fathom five thy father lies (from The Tempest by Shakespeare)
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• His father's son
• Honour thy father and mother
• How's your father
• I'll Be Missing You (Puff Daddy with Faith Evans and 112 song)
• It sounds alright on paper
• Just a glint in his father's eye
• Light the blue touch paper and retire
• Like father, like son
• Mom and Pop
• Nash Daddy (Nickname of Steve Nash)
• Not worth the paper it's printed on
• On paper
• Once you pop you can't stop (Pringles advertising slogan)
• Our father who art in heaven
• Papa Bear (Nickname of George Halas)
• Papa Bear Colonel (Nickname of Robert Hogan (Bob Crane))
• Papa Doc (Nickname of Francois Duvalier)
• Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown song)
• Papa? Nicole? (Renault Clio advertising slogan)
• Paper Doll (Mills Brothers song)
• Paper millionaire
• Paper over the cracks
• Paper profit
• Paper the house
• Paper thin
• Paper tiger
• Paper trail
• Petit Papa No�l (Tino Rossi song)
• Pop art
• Pop goes the weasel
• Pop off
• Pop someone's cherry
• Pop the question
• Pop your clogs
• Put pen to paper
• Santa's Little Helpers (allusion to the elves that help Father Christmas)
• Snap, Crackle, and Pop (Kellogg's Rice Krispies advertising slogan)
• Sugar daddy
• Sweet as the moment when the pod went 'pop' (Birds Eye Peas advertising slogan)
• Take a pop at
• That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine (Gene Autry song)
• The Sash My Father Wore (Irish traditional song)
• The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
• The bank of mum and dad
• The boy is father to the man
• The child is father of the man (from a poem by Wordsworth)
• The only 'sauce' I dare give Father (Burma Sauce advertising slogan)
• The sash my father wore
• The wish is father to the thought
• This is Not Your Father's Oldsmobile (Oldsmobile advertising slogan)
• Too pooped to pop
• Toxic paper
• Vox pop
• What did you do in the war Daddy?
• Who's your daddy?
• You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)