Pattern Phrases

Phrases

• A girl with kaleidoscope eyes (Beatles song lyric)
• All part of life's rich pattern
• America's Next Top Model
• Apple pie order
• Bang out of order
• Better by design
• Bog standard
• Built to order
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Richard Dreyfuss movie)
• Congratulations are in order
• Cruel to be kind
• Design flaw
• Design for life

• Double standard
• Eats shooots and leaves (classic example of the need for punctuation)
• Gagging order
• Halo model
• Hate watch (viewing a television programme in order to mock it)
• Holding pattern
• Human kind cannot bear very much reality (from a poem by Eliot)
• In short order
• In the order of
• It's A Kind Of Magic (Queen song)
• It's kind to your throat (Craven 'A' Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Join the dots
• Kind Of Blue (Miles Davis tune and album)

• Kind words
• Law and order
• Lead by example
• Mail order bride
• Make Your Own Kind Of Music (Mama Cass Elliot song)
• Make an example of
• Matrix management
• McDonald's is Your Kind of Place (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Model behaviour
• Model citizen
• Model of virtue
• Model pupil
• Order about

• Order in the court
• Order of magnitude
• Order order
• Order up
• Out of order
• Painting by numbers
• Pecking order
• Put your house in order
• Role model
• Saviour sibling (a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease)
• Shirtsleeve order
• Side order
• So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (3dfx advertising slogan)

• Some kind of a nut
• Standard of the World (Cadillac advertising slogan)
• Summer time (the time adopted during the summer in advance of the standard time)
• Tall order
• Textbook example
• The Gold Standard
• The Matrix (Keanu Reeves movie)
• The Matrix (Nickname of Shawn Marion)
• The order of the boot
• The order of the day
• Two of a kind
• Vodka as it should be (Russian Standard advertising slogan)
• You're Wendy's kind of people (Wendy Burgers advertising slogan)