Paper Phrases

Phrases

• A newspaper, not a snoozepaper (Mail on Sunday advertising slogan)
• A slip of a thing
• A slip of the pen
• Absolute pitch (the ability to determine a musical note by ear)
• All I know is what I read in the papers (Will Rogers quotation)
• All human life is there (News Of The World advertising slogan)
• All the news that's fit to print (New York Times advertising slogan)
• As busy as a one armed paper hanger
• As queer as a nine bob note
• Attack is the best form of defence
• Bad form
• Bad news
• Bad news travels fast
• Bad paper
• Bearer of bad news
• Body painting (a form of painting that uses the human body as a canvas)
• Break the news
• Breaking news
• Carte blanche
• Cheat sheet
• Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
• Cut through the red tape
• Do you want the good news or the bad news?
• Doctor, doctor, give me the news, I've got a bad case of loving you (Robert Palmer song lyric)
• Don't believe everything that's written in the newspapers
• Don't give a hang
• Duncan the Wonder Horse (Nickname of TV news anchor Tom Brokaw)
• Fair and Balanced (FOX News advertising slogan)
• Figure painting (a form of painting in which the human body is the subject)
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Folding money
• Form follows function
• Form is temporary, class is permanent
• Free form
• Freudian slip
• Get the hang of it
• Give a dog a bad name and hang him
• Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself
• Give him enough rope and he'll hang himself
• Give someone the slip
• Give the slip
• Guardian angel
• Hang a left
• Hang a right
• Hang about
• Hang around with
• Hang back
• Hang by the neck until dead
• Hang fire
• Hang him out to dry
• Hang in there
• Hang loose
• Hang on
• Hang on a minute
• Hang on by your fingertips
• Hang on every word
• Hang on for dear life
• Hang on like grim death
• Hang on to your shirt tails
• Hang out
• Hang out with
• Hang out your shingle
• Hang ten
• Hang time
• Hang tough
• Hang up your boots
• Hang up your hat
• Hang up your sword
• Hang your hat on
• Hang your head

• Hard copy
• Have I got news for you
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• Hold the front page
• Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
• In fine form
• In the news
• It is. Are you? (Independent Newspaper advertising slogan)
• It sounds alright on paper
• Joined up writing
• Landscape painting (a form of painting in which the natural world is the subject)
• Leaps off the page
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Let it all hang out
• Let it slip through your fingers
• Let something slip
• Light the blue touch paper and retire
• News for nerds, stuff that matters (Slashdot advertising slogan)
• News from the front
• News management
• Nip slip (the inadvertent exposure of a woman's nipple)
• No F.T. no comment (Financial Times Newspaper advertising slogan)
• No news is good news
• Not worth the paper it's printed on
• On paper
• On the same page
• Page 3 girl
• Page turner
• Paper Doll (Mills Brothers song)
• Paper millionaire
• Paper over the cracks
• Paper profit
• Paper the house
• Paper thin
• Paper tiger
• Paper trail
• Paperback Writer (Beatles song)
• Please turn over
• Portrait painting (a form of painting in which the human face is the subject)
• Put in writing
• Put pen to paper
• Red tape
• Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Slip and slide
• Slip of the tongue
• Slip on a banana skin
• Slip the collar
• Slip up
• Slip, Slidin' Away (Paul Simon song)
• Slip, sliding away
• Splashed across the front page
• Still life (a form of painting in which inanimate objects are the subject)
• Surf report
• Take note of
• That's the news and I'm outta here (A catchphrase from Dennis Miller In Saturday Night Live)
• The Bronze Goddess of Fire (Nickname of LaWanda Page)
• The Sunday Times is the Sunday papers (Sunday Times advertising slogan)
• The Thunderer (Nickname of The Times Newspaper)
• The daily diary of the American dream (Wall Street Journal advertising slogan)
• The document company (Xerox advertising slogan)
• The green stuff
• The most trusted name in news (CNN advertising slogan)
• The quicker picker upper (Bounty Papertowels advertising slogan)
• The writing is on the wall
• There's many a slip twixt cup and lip
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Tissue of lies
• Toxic paper
• Wallpaper the meeting
• We report, you decide (FOX News advertising slogan)
• Yesterday's news

Related

• As busy as a one armed paper hanger
• Bad paper
• Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• It sounds alright on paper
• Light the blue touch paper and retire
• Not worth the paper it's printed on
• On paper
• Paper Doll (Mills Brothers song)
• Paper millionaire
• Paper over the cracks
• Paper profit
• Paper the house
• Paper thin
• Paper tiger
• Paper trail
• Put pen to paper
• Toxic paper