Parcel Phrases

Phrases

• As deaf as a post
• Brat pack
• Bundle of fun
• Bundle of joy
• Bundle of nerves
• Cop a packet
• Costa packet
• Courier Express. Today's delivery problems solved tomorrow (Courier Express advertising slogan)
• Democracy Wall (wall in Bejing China where dissidents post letters poems etc)
• Drop a bundle
• Drop your bundle
• Fanny pack
• First past the post
• Go a bundle on
• Good things come in small packages
• Good things come in small parcels
• If you don't get it, you don't get it (The Washington Post advertising slogan)
• Joe Six Pack
• Joker in the pack
• Leader of the pack
• Make a bundle of money
• Pack a punch
• Pack heat
• Pack it in
• Pack more punch

• Pack of lies
• Pack your bags
• Packet sniffer
• Parcel out
• Part and parcel
• Pass the parcel
• Pipped at the post
• Please Mr. Postman (The Beatles song)
• Post early for Christmas (Post Office advertising slogan)
• Post haste
• Post modern
• Post mortem
• Post partum
• Pushed from pillar to post
• Same day delivery
• Send a salami to your boy in the army
• Send your parcels Red Star and pull out all the stops (Red Star advertising slogan)
• Six pack
• Somebody somewhere wants a letter from you (British Post Office advertising slogan)
• Surprise package
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (Jack Nicholson movie)
• The Rat Pack (Nickname of entertainers Dean Martin Sammy Davis Jr Peter Lawford Joey Bishop and Frank Sinatra)
• The cheque is in the post
• Total package
• Where was Moses When the Lights Went Out? - Groping for a pack of Meccas (Mecca Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Winning post