Passive Phrases

Phrases

• As patient as Job
• As slow as molasses in January
• Can't Slow Down (Lionel Richie album)
• Cooks who know trust Crisco (Crisco Vegetable Shortening advertising slogan)
• Day surgery (minor surgery that does not require the patient to stay in hospital overnight)
• Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down
• He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches (George Bernard Shaw quotation)
• I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking (the opening line of Goodbye To Berlin)
• Lazy bones
• Painfully slow
• Passive aggressive
• Passive smoking
• Patient Zero (Nickname of Gilbert Arenas)
• Slow burn
• Slow but sure
• Slow motion
• Slow on the uptake
• Slow slow quick quick slow
• The Adventure of the Resident Patient (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Lazy Song (Bruno Mars song)
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
• Vegetable box
• Vegetable drawer