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368 phrases and expressions related to "past".

Phrases

  • ...Baby One More Time (Britney Spears album and song)
  • 1066 And All That: A Memorable History Of England (W. C. Sellar book)
  • A Brief History Of Time (Stephen Hawking book)
  • A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Future: Twists And Turns, And Lessons Learned (Michael J. Fox book)
  • A River Runs Through It (Brad Pitt movie)
  • A Short History Of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson book)
  • A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian (Marina Lewycka book)
  • A good time was had by all
  • A stitch in time saves nine
  • A week is a long time in politics
  • About time too
  • After all is said and done
  • After all, tomorrow is another day (Gone With the Wind)
  • Ahead of his time
  • All done and dusted
  • All in a good time
  • All the time in the world
  • All time low
  • Ancient history
  • Any time, any place, any where (Martini advertising slogan)
  • Any time, anywhere, acid indigestion can catch you out (Alka Selzer advertising slogan)
  • Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
  • Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?
  • Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did? (Dial Soap advertising slogan)
  • As time goes by
  • At this moment in time
  • At this point in time
  • Back To The Future
  • Bad time
  • Bath time
  • Been and gone
  • Been around the block a few times
  • Been had
  • Been here before
  • Been in the wars
  • Been there, done that, got the T-shirt
  • Better late than never
  • Better luck next time
  • Better things for better living, through chemistry (Dupont advertising slogan)
  • Bide your time
  • Big time
  • Blast from the past
  • Blow through
  • Brand new ballgame (A baseball expression meaning when a team that has been behind ties up the game)
  • Break through (Cadillac advertising slogan)
  • Build for the future
  • Buy some time
  • Buy time
  • Call time on
  • Christmas is a time to believe in things you can't see (3M Company Scotch Tape advertising slogan)
  • Chucking out time
  • Colour me gone
  • Consigned to the dustbin of history
  • Crunch time
  • Cut through the red tape
  • Day late and a dollar short
  • Daylight saving time (the adjustment of clocks to provide longer evening daylight)
  • Dead and gone
  • Dead on time
  • Dickens of a time
  • Did I do that? (A catchphrase from Family Matters)
  • Did Somebody Say McDonald's? (McDonald's advertising slogan)
  • Did the earth move for you
  • Did you get dressed in the dark?
  • Died and gone to heaven
  • Do as you would be done by
  • Do hard time (Spend time in a high security prison)
  • Done a runner
  • Done and dusted
  • Done deal
  • Done for
  • Done in
  • Done to a turn
  • Done to death
  • Done up like a Christmas tree
  • Done up like a kipper
  • Double time
  • Drag through the mud
  • Earlier on
  • Easier said than done
  • Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been (Beatles song lyric)
  • Equal pay, equal time (Bulova Watches advertising slogan)
  • Every bubble's passed its fizzical (Corona advertising slogan)
  • Every time a bell rings, an angel gets it's wings (line from It's A Wonderful Life)
  • Every time a good time (McDonald's advertising slogan)
  • Face time
  • Fall through
  • Fall through the cracks
  • Fashionably late
  • First past the post
  • First time caller
  • For the foreseeable future
  • For the time being
  • For years we've been making our products as if lives depend on them (Squib drug products advertising slogan)
  • Forever is a long time
  • Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn (Gone With the Wind)
  • From the beginning of time
  • From time immemorial
  • From time to time
  • Future proof
  • Future shock
  • Game time
  • Geological time
  • Getting things done (AmeriCorps national service program advertising slogan)
  • Gift of time
  • Go down for the third time
  • Go through fire and water for
  • Go through the roof
  • Go through with a fine toothed comb
  • Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)
  • Going through the motions
  • Going, going, gone
  • Gone Dolally
  • Gone With The Wind (Clark Gable / Vivien Leigh movie)
  • Gone before
  • Gone but not forgotten
  • Gone fishing
  • Gone for a Burton
  • Gone tits up
  • Gone to a better world
  • Gone to pot
  • Gone to seed
  • Gone to the bad
  • Gone to the dogs
  • Good Time, Great Taste, That's Why This is My Place (McDonald's advertising slogan)
  • Good time charlie
  • Good time girl
  • Got no time for
  • Had a good war (to have been successful during a military campaign)
  • Hair today gone tomorrow
  • Hang time
  • Hard done by
  • Hard work never did anyone any harm
  • Hark back to
  • Have you ever had a bad time in Levi's? (Levi's Jeans advertising slogan)
  • He shot through like a Bondi tram
  • Hello big boy, would you like a nice time?
  • Her Honeymoon - and it should have been mine! (Listerine Mouthwash advertising slogan)
  • Here today gone tomorrow
  • High old time
  • High season (the most popular time to visit a resort or attraction - when prices are highest)
  • High time
  • History Repeating (Shirley Bassey song)
  • History in the making
  • History is bunk (Henry Ford quotation)
  • History repeats itself
  • Hot chocolate, drinking chocolate - the late, late drink (Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate advertising slogan)
  • I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Marvin Gaye song)
  • I coulda been a contender, instead of a bum, which is what I am (On The Waterfront)
  • I did not have sexual relations with that woman
  • I need it yesterday
  • I never did
  • I wasn't born yesterday
  • I wouldn't put it past him
  • I'm Looking Through You (The Beatles song)
  • I've been brokenhearted, blue since the day we parted (ABBA lyric)
  • I've been cheated by you since I don't know when (ABBA lyric)
  • I've been had
  • Idea whose time has come
  • If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him
  • If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
  • If you keep late hours for Society's sake, Bromo-Seltzer will cure that headache (Bromo-Seltzer advertising slogan)
  • If you want a thing done well, do it yourself
  • If you've got the time, we've got the beer (Miller Beer advertising slogan)
  • In Xanadu did Kubla Khan (from a poem by Coleridge)
  • In good time
  • In less than no time
  • In no time flat
  • In real time
  • In record time
  • In the fullness of time
  • In the nick of time
  • In the right place at the right time
  • In your own time
  • Is this a great time or what? (MCI Communications advertising slogan)
  • It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
  • It's Miller time! (Miller High Life advertising slogan)
  • It's a Good Time for the Great Taste of mcdonald's (McDonald's advertising slogan)
  • It's a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done
  • It's about time
  • It's all done in the best possible taste (A catchphrase from Kenny Everett)
  • It's all gone Pete Tong (Cockney rhyming slang for gone wrong)
  • It's all gone pear shaped
  • It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been working like a dog (Beatles song lyric)
  • It's high time
  • It's never too late
  • It's never too late to learn
  • It's payback time
  • It's time for U (UPN advertising slogan)
  • It's time to call it a day
  • It's time to fly (United Airlines advertising slogan)
  • Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today
  • Jump through hoops
  • Just a question of time
  • Just in time
  • Just passing through
  • Just slightly ahead of our time (Panasonic advertising slogan)
  • Keep time with
  • Kill time
  • Kill time until time kills you
  • Lapse of time
  • Last time of asking
  • Late bloomer
  • Late developer
  • Late hour
  • Late in the day
  • Late in the game
  • Late lamented
  • Leaf through
  • Let bygones be bygones
  • Let it slip through your fingers
  • Lie through his teeth
  • Like shit through a goose
  • Living on borrowed time
  • Local time
  • Long time no see
  • Looking at the world through rose coloured glasses
  • Lose track of time
  • Lost and gone forever
  • Love In The Time Of Cholera
  • Make good time
  • Make history
  • Make poverty history
  • Make up for lost time
  • March of time
  • Mark time
  • Matter of time
  • Miller Time (Nickname of Reggie Miller)
  • Mind the time
  • Mistakes have been made
  • More jobs through science (Union Carbide and Carbon advertising slogan)
  • Mum's gone to Iceland (Iceland Supermarkets advertising slogan)
  • My stomach thinks my throat's been cut
  • No harm done
  • No sooner said than done
  • Normal service has been resumed
  • Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party
  • Old before your time
  • Once Upon A Time In America (Robert De Niro movie)
  • Once and future king
  • Once upon a time
  • One leg at a time (Dockers advertising slogan)
  • One more time
  • One step at a time
  • Only a matter of time
  • Only time will tell
  • Oops!... I Did It Again (Britney Spears song)
  • Out Of Time (Rolling Stones song)
  • Over and done with
  • Over the teeth and through the gums, look out stomach here it comes
  • Party time
  • Pass the time of day
  • Past caring
  • Past it
  • Past its sell-by date
  • Pay through the nose
  • Peace in our time
  • Pearls past price
  • Pierce through the heart
  • Play for time
  • Political correctness gone mad
  • Prime time
  • Procrastination is the thief of time
  • Pull through
  • Pussycat pussycat, where have you been? (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Put the clock back
  • Put through the mill
  • Put through your paces
  • Quality time
  • Race against time
  • Rifle through
  • Rise through the ranks
  • Running late
  • Sack time
  • Same time tomorrow? (Diet Pepsi advertising slogan)
  • Say kids, what time is it? (A catchphrase from Howdy Doody Show)
  • Schweppervescence lasts the whole drink through (Schweppes advertising slogan)
  • Scraping through
  • Screen time
  • See You Late Alligator (Bill Haley song)
  • See something through
  • See what the future has in store (Future Shop advertising slogan)
  • Serve your time
  • Shaping the future
  • She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (The Beatles song)
  • Shoot through (to leave or abscond)
  • Shovel ready (a building project in which all the preliminaries have been arranged)
  • Since time immemorial
  • So many books, so little time (Frank Zappa quotation)
  • Some other time
  • Spend more time with my family
  • Squeaky bum time
  • Summer time (the time adopted during the summer in advance of the standard time)
  • Sweet sixteen and never been kissed
  • Take one day at a time
  • Take time out
  • Talk me through it
  • Talk through your hat
  • The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) (The Chipmunks and David Seville song)
  • The Cradle Of History (Nickname of Monterey California)
  • The Future (Nickname of Carmelo Anthony)
  • The King of Late Night Television (Nickname of Jack Paar)
  • The Last Time (Rolling Stones song)
  • The Last Time I Saw Paris (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
  • The Smartest Dumbbell in the History of Show Business (Nickname of comedienne Gracie Allen)
  • The Time (Dirty Bit) (The Black Eyed Peas song)
  • The age of miracles is past
  • The butler did it
  • The course of true love never did run smooth
  • The die has been cast
  • The dim distant past
  • The dustbin of history
  • The first time is never the best (Campari advertising slogan)
  • The future is now
  • The future isn't what it used to be
  • The future takes VISA (VISA advertising slogan)
  • The future's bright, the future's Orange (Orange mobile phones advertising slogan)
  • The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades (song by Timbuk 3)
  • The good old days
  • The land that time forgot
  • The late unpleasantness
  • The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there (the opening line of The Go-Between)
  • The rest is history
  • The right place at the wrong time
  • The sands of time
  • The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things
  • The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, Carroll)
  • The way to a man's heart is through his stomach
  • The wind of change is blowing through this continent
  • There's a time and a place for everything
  • There's no time like the present
  • There's nothing you can do that can't be done (The Beatles song lyric)
  • Thin time of it
  • Think it through
  • Third time lucky
  • Third time's a charm
  • This time it's personal (Jaws The Revenge advertising tagline)
  • This time next year we will be millionaires (A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses)
  • Those were the days
  • Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it
  • Through The Looking Glass, And What Alice Found There (Lewis Carroll book)
  • Through a glass darkly
  • Through and through
  • Through clenched teeth
  • Through the ages
  • Through the eye of a needle
  • Through the looking glass
  • Through the mill
  • Through thick and thin
  • Till the end of time
  • Time Out Of Mind (Bob Dylan song)
  • Time after time
  • Time and again
  • Time and tide wait for no man
  • Time and time again
  • Time flies
  • Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
  • Time flies when you are having fun

Related

  • Blast from the past
  • First past the post
  • I wouldn't put it past him
  • Past caring
  • Past it
  • Past its sell-by date
  • Pearls past price
  • The age of miracles is past
  • The dim distant past
  • The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there (the opening line of The Go-Between)