Parliament Phrases

Phrases

• A class act
• A week is a long time in politics
• Act of God
• Act out
• Act the fool
• Act the giddy goat
• Act the part
• Act up
• Act white
• Act your age
• Balancing act
• Bedroom politics
• Billion Dollar Man (Nickname of American politician Henry Nowak)
• Caught in the act
• Class act
• Clean up your act
• Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
• Do a disappearing act
• Double act
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• Gesture politics
• Get in on the act
• Get your act together
• Hard act to follow
• Hear hear
• High wire act

• Human Rights Act
• In on the act
• My right honourable friend
• Number 10 Downing Street (address of the British Prime Minister)
• Office politics
• Order order
• Paddy Pantsdown (Nickname of English politician Paddy Ashdown)
• Phone it in (perform an act in an uncommitted disinterested manner)
• Play hardball (A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive)
• Pork barrel politics
• Put on an act
• Random act of kindness
• Read the riot act
• Sister Act (Whoopie Goldberg movie)
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Beast of Bolsover (Nickname of English politician Dennis Skinner)
• The Boy David (Nickname of English politician David Steel)
• The Chingford Strangler (Nickname of English politician Norman Tebbit)
• The Houses of Parliament (tourist attraction in London England)
• The act you've known for all these years (Beatles song lyric)
• The ayes have it
• The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner (9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan)
• The corridors of power
• Think global, act local
• Think globally, act locally (Friends of the Earth advertising slogan)
• Three line whip
• Triple play (A baseball expression denoting the act of making three outs during the same play)