People Phrases

Phrases

• A nation of shopkeepers
• A person is known by the company he keeps
• A, B, C, D, E, Your public library has arranged these in ways that make you cry, giggle, laugh, love, hate, wonder, ponder and understand (American Library Association advertising slogan)
• Air your dirty linen in public
• All the lonely people, where do they all come from? (Beatles song lyric)
• An everyday story of country folk (A catchphrase from The Archers)
• Anti personnel mine
• As queer as folk
• Boat person
• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• Cat person
• Community of learners
• Computers help people help people (IBM advertising slogan)
• Connecting people (Nokia advertising slogan)
• Count noses
• Crowd control
• Crowd funding
• Crowd source
• Displaced person
• Don't you people have homes to go to?
• Egg and spoon race
• Evening person
• Face in the crowd
• Face time
• Factory outlet (a shop where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
• Factory shop (a retail outlet where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
• Far From The Madding Crowd (Julie Christie / Alan Bates movie)
• Far From The Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy book)
• First among equals (the most senior person in a group of equal rank)
• Forward with the People (Daily Mirror advertising slogan)
• Games people play
• Genius bonus (a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed people)
• Go public
• Great unwashed
• Have you any last requests? (humorous question asked as though a person was about to be killed)
• Head count
• Heavy hitter (A baseball expression meaning a powerful or commanding person)
• Hell is other people (Jean-Paul Sartre quotation)
• High occupancy vehicle lane (a traffic lane reserved for vehicles carrying several people)
• How To Win Friends And Influence People (Dale Carnegie book)
• How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? (Beatles song lyric)
• Human resources
• I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
• I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me! (A catchphrase from Stuart Smiley In Saturday Night Live)
• If enough people would stop smoking and start drinking, we could get out of ashtrays and into vermouth (Cinzano advertising slogan)
• In person
• In the public eye
• It Takes People Like You To Make People Like Me (Buck Owens song)
• It doesn't take a minute to bag it and bin it (UK public advertisement advertising slogan)
• It's all about you (People Telecom advertising slogan)
• Joe Public
• Join the Pepsi People (Pepsi advertising slogan)
• Klunk! Klick, every trip (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
• Lost in a crowd
• Morning person
• Not a lot of people know that (A catchphrase from Michael Caine)
• Not my type (not a person one is attracted to)
• Of the people, for the people, by the people
• Oh, the humanity
• One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind (Neil Armstrong quotation)
• People carrier (a car with several passenger seats)
• People in here are trying to sleep
• People mover (a car with several passenger seats)
• People of colour
• People person
• People power
• People smuggler (someone involved in smuggling immigrants between countries, often illegally)
• People watching
• People who like people like Dial (Dial Soap advertising slogan)
• People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
• People's republic (a communist state)

• Person of interest
• Person to person
• Pillar of the community
• Piss like a race horse
• Places to go, people to see, things to do
• Play the race card
• Pleasing people the world over (Holiday Inn advertising slogan)
• Potty mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• Power to the people
• Public Enemy Number One (Nickname of John Dillinger)
• Public enemy
• Public sector
• Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People song)
• Queer as folk
• Race against the clock
• Race against time
• Race for the taste, the honey sweet taste!, the honey-nutty taste of Honey Nut Cheerios (Cheerios Cereals advertising slogan)
• Race proven performance (Kumho Tires advertising slogan)
• Race to the bottom
• Rat race
• Real food for real people (The beef industry advertising slogan)
• Religion is the opiate of the masses (Karl Marx quotation)
• Sack race
• Serving All our Community (Brampton's Arts Group advertising slogan)
• Skeleton staff
• Stand out from the crowd
• The Amazing Race (US TV show)
• The Birth of a Nation (D W Griffith / Lillian Gish movie)
• The Master Race
• The People's Champ (Nickname of Freddie Mitchell)
• The People's Cherce (Nickname of Dixie Walker)
• The People's Princess (Nickname of Diana Princess of Wales)
• The People's Republic Of Berkeley (Nickname of Berkeley California)
• The People's Republic Of Cambridge (Nickname of Cambridge Massachusetts)
• The People's Republic of South Yorkshire (Nickname of Sheffield England)
• The great unwashed
• The human race
• The little people
• The people's choice (a person or thing chosen by public acclamation)
• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid (Jane Austen quotation)
• The proper study of mankind is man (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• The public domain
• The public purse
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd
• The station of the nation (Radio Caroline advertising slogan)
• There's nowt so queer as folk
• Think once, think twice, think bike (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
• Three's a crowd
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• Toilet mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• Top people take the Times (The Times advertising slogan)
• Try everything once, except incest and folk dancing (Sir Thomas Beecham quotation)
• Two's company three's a crowd
• Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking
• Victory won't wait for the nation that's late (Big Ben Clocks advertising slogan)
• Vox pop
• Vox populi
• Wardrobe mistress (a person in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company)
• Wash your dirty linen in public
• We make things that bring people closer (Western Electrics advertising slogan)
• We the people
• When E F Hutton talks, people listen (EF Hutton advertising slogan)
• Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies (Beatles song lyric)
• Wherever particular people congregate (Pall Mall Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Who are the people in your neighborhood?
• Win friends and influence people
• Y.M.C.A. (Village People song)
• You meet the nicest people on a Honda (Honda advertising slogan)
• You're Wendy's kind of people (Wendy Burgers advertising slogan)
• You, of all people (exclamation when meeting someone unexpectedly)

Related

• All the lonely people, where do they all come from? (Beatles song lyric)
• Computers help people help people (IBM advertising slogan)
• Connecting people (Nokia advertising slogan)
• Don't you people have homes to go to?
• Forward with the People (Daily Mirror advertising slogan)
• Games people play
• Genius bonus (a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed people)
• Hell is other people (Jean-Paul Sartre quotation)
• High occupancy vehicle lane (a traffic lane reserved for vehicles carrying several people)
• How To Win Friends And Influence People (Dale Carnegie book)
• How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? (Beatles song lyric)
• I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
• I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me! (A catchphrase from Stuart Smiley In Saturday Night Live)
• If enough people would stop smoking and start drinking, we could get out of ashtrays and into vermouth (Cinzano advertising slogan)
• It Takes People Like You To Make People Like Me (Buck Owens song)
• It's all about you (People Telecom advertising slogan)
• Join the Pepsi People (Pepsi advertising slogan)
• Not a lot of people know that (A catchphrase from Michael Caine)
• Of the people, for the people, by the people
• People carrier (a car with several passenger seats)
• People in here are trying to sleep
• People mover (a car with several passenger seats)
• People of colour
• People person
• People power
• People smuggler (someone involved in smuggling immigrants between countries, often illegally)
• People watching
• People who like people like Dial (Dial Soap advertising slogan)
• People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
• People's republic (a communist state)
• Places to go, people to see, things to do
• Pleasing people the world over (Holiday Inn advertising slogan)
• Power to the people
• Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People song)
• Real food for real people (The beef industry advertising slogan)
• The People's Champ (Nickname of Freddie Mitchell)
• The People's Cherce (Nickname of Dixie Walker)
• The People's Princess (Nickname of Diana Princess of Wales)
• The People's Republic Of Berkeley (Nickname of Berkeley California)
• The People's Republic Of Cambridge (Nickname of Cambridge Massachusetts)
• The People's Republic of South Yorkshire (Nickname of Sheffield England)
• The little people
• The people's choice (a person or thing chosen by public acclamation)
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• Top people take the Times (The Times advertising slogan)
• We make things that bring people closer (Western Electrics advertising slogan)
• We the people
• When E F Hutton talks, people listen (EF Hutton advertising slogan)
• Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies (Beatles song lyric)
• Wherever particular people congregate (Pall Mall Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Who are the people in your neighborhood?
• Win friends and influence people
• Y.M.C.A. (Village People song)
• You meet the nicest people on a Honda (Honda advertising slogan)
• You're Wendy's kind of people (Wendy Burgers advertising slogan)
• You, of all people (exclamation when meeting someone unexpectedly)