Peer Phrases

Phrases

• A cat may look at a king
• A match made in heaven
• Absolute power corrupts absolutely (quotation by Lord Acton)
• After the Lord Mayor's parade
• All men are cremated equal (Spike Milligan line)
• Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life (Monty Python's Flying Circus song)
• As drunk as a lord
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Black Moses (Nickname of basketball player Baron Davis)
• Blank look
• Boom Dizzle (Nickname of basketball player Baron Davis)
• Brighton Pier (Cockney rhyming slang for queer)
• Count me in
• Count me out
• Count noses
• Count the calories
• Count the cost
• Count the pennies
• Count to ten
• Count your blessings
• Dirty look
• Ditty Bop (Nickname of basketball player Baron Davis)
• Does my bum look big in this? (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Don't Look Now (Julie Christie / Donald Sutherland movie)
• Don't count your chickens before they are hatched
• Don't know which way to look
• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
• Down for the count
• Duke it out
• Duke's mixture
• Equal opportunities
• Equal pay, equal time (Bulova Watches advertising slogan)
• Faraway look
• First among equals (the most senior person in a group of equal rank)
• For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
• Funny, you don't look Jewish
• Game set and match
• Hatch, match and dispatch
• Have a Captain Cook (Cockney rhyming slang for look)
• Have a look
• Head count
• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways (from a poem by Browning)
• How long, O Lord, how long?
• I look at the world and I notice it's turning (The Beatles song lyric)
• If you haven't looked at Ford lately, look again (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
• Keep count
• Let me count the ways
• Live like a lord
• Look Ma, no cavities! (Crest Toothpaste advertising slogan)
• Look a fright
• Look after number one
• Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves
• Look alive
• Look and feel
• Look away now
• Look before you leap
• Look both ways
• Look daggers
• Look death in the eye
• Look down on
• Look down your nose
• Look for the Golden Arches (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Look in on
• Look into
• Look lively
• Look ma, no hands!
• Look no further
• Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair (from a poem by Shelley)
• Look out
• Look out for number one

• Look over
• Look over your shoulder
• Look sharp
• Look sharp, feel sharp (Gillette advertising slogan)
• Look someone up and down
• Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls! (A catchphrase from Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In)
• Look the other way
• Look to your laurels
• Look up to
• Look what the cat dragged in
• Look who's talking?
• Look you bach
• Look your best while you wear our least (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• Look, no hands
• Lord Clark of Civilisation (Nickname of Kenneth Clark)
• Lord Fred (Cockney rhyming slang for bed)
• Lord Haw-Haw (Nickname of William Joyce)
• Lord Of The Flies (William Golding book)
• Lord Of The Rings (J R R Tolkien book)
• Lord it over
• Lord love a duck
• Lose count
• Love match
• Meet your match
• Mix and match
• More than a match for
• My Sweet Lord (George Harrison song)
• My precious (The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers)
• Never look a gift horse in the mouth
• Never look back
• Noble art of self defence
• Noble savage
• Old fashioned look
• On an equal footing
• Out for the count
• Over the teeth and through the gums, look out stomach here it comes
• Peer pressure
• Perfect match
• Phil The Greek (Nickname of Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh)
• Praise the lord and pass the ammunition
• Red Baron (Nickname of Rick Sutcliffe)
• Seconds count
• Stop, Look and Listen; remember the Green Cross Code (UK Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• Take The A Train (Duke Ellington tune)
• Take a butchers (Cockney rhyming slang for look)
• Take a cold hard look
• Take a long walk off a short pier
• Take the count
• The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Body Guard (Nickname of Baron Davis)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas book)
• The Duke (Pseudonym of Marion Michael Morrison a.k.a.John Wayne)
• The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Iron Duke (Nickname of Arthur Duke of Wellington)
• The Lord of the Idiots (Nickname of George Costanza (Jason Alexander))
• The Lord of the Rings (J R R Tolkien story and Peter Jackson movie)
• The Red Baron (Nickname of Baron Manfred von Richtofen)
• The Thriller In Manila (Ali versus Frazier boxing match)
• The favoured of the Lord
• The four noble truths
• The look is Immac-ulate (Immac Depilatory advertising slogan)
• The smoker's match (Swan Vesta matches advertising slogan)
• The valley of the shadow of death (line from Psalm 23)
• Three on a match
• Tobacco baron
• Too Easy (Nickname of Baron Davis)
• Whole shooting match
• You can count on me
• You look as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards
• You look as though you've seen the ghost
• You look... Mahvelous! (A catchphrase from Saturday Night Live)
• You'll look a little lovelier each day, with fabulous pink Camay (Camay Soap advertising slogan)