Person Phrases

Phrases

• ...Baby One More Time (Britney Spears album and song)
• A great one for
• A person is known by the company he keeps
• All children, except one, grow up (the opening line of Peter Pan)
• All for one and one for all
• All human life is there (News Of The World advertising slogan)
• All one to me
• All the lonely people, where do they all come from? (Beatles song lyric)
• An army of one (United States Army advertising slogan)
• And then there was one
• Angel Cups (Nickname of soap character Marcy Rhoades)
• Another One Bites The Dust (Queen song)
• Are You Being Served? (BBC comedy television series)
• Art is going one step too far
• As busy as a one armed paper hanger
• As busy as a one legged arse kicker
• As one door closes, another one opens
• Ask the Man who Owns One (Packard advertising slogan)
• At one another's throats
• At one fell swoop
• Atone for one's sins
• Avert one's eyes
• Avert one's gaze
• Back to square one
• Bare one's teeth
• Bat Masterson (Nickname of American western character William Barclay Masterson)
• Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! (The Beatles song)
• Being There
• Betcha can't eat just one (Lay's potato chips advertising slogan)
• Bite the big one
• Boat person
• Body painting (a form of painting that uses the human body as a canvas)
• Breathe one's last
• Buy one, get one free
• By royal appointment
• Cat person
• Character assassination
• Character driven fiction
• Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
• Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard (Spike Milligan line)
• Colour one's view
• Computers help people help people (IBM advertising slogan)
• Connecting people (Nokia advertising slogan)
• Cop one
• Dance With The One That Brought You (Shania Twain song)
• Day one
• Desperate Dan (a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The Dandy)
• Displaced person
• Doff one's cap
• Don't put all your eggs in one basket
• Don't you just love being in control? (British Gas advertising slogan)
• Don't you people have homes to go to?
• Down it in one
• Down to the last out (A baseball expression meaning to have one last chance)
• Down to the pub for a quick one
• Ethnic stocking (the appointment to political office on the basis of ethnicity)
• Evening person
• Every one a winner
• Exercise one's discretion
• Exert one's authority
• Famous for being famous
• Far better for being near to you (The Chesham Building Society advertising slogan)
• Feed one's mind
• Figure painting (a form of painting in which the human body is the subject)
• First among equals (the most senior person in a group of equal rank)
• For No One (Beatles song)
• For the time being
• Forward with the People (Daily Mirror advertising slogan)
• Fourpenny one
• From day one
• Games people play
• Genius bonus (a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed people)
• Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration (Thomas Edison quotation)
• Give one's eye teeth for
• Give one's right arm for
• Go off on one
• Go one better
• Got it in one
• Have one on me
• Have you any last requests? (humorous question asked as though a person was about to be killed)
• He's one sick puppy
• Heavy hitter (A baseball expression meaning a powerful or commanding person)
• Hell is other people (Jean-Paul Sartre quotation)
• Hello, one two three testing
• Here's one I prepared earlier (A catchphrase from Blue Peter)
• Here's one in your eye
• High occupancy vehicle lane (a traffic lane reserved for vehicles carrying several people)
• Hole in one
• Hope springs eternal in the human breast (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• 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 Rights Act
• Human condition
• Human error
• Human kind cannot bear very much reality (from a poem by Eliot)
• Human nature
• Human resources
• Human rights
• I don't believe it (A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew, One Foot In The Grave)
• I have it on good authority
• I have not slept one wink
• I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
• I took my harp to the party but no one asked me to play
• I want that one (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• I'm free! (A catchphrase from Mr Humphries In Are You Being Served?)
• I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me! (A catchphrase from Stuart Smiley In Saturday Night Live)
• I'm only human
• If I've only one life, let me live it as a blonde! (Clairol Hair Colouring advertising slogan)
• If enough people would stop smoking and start drinking, we could get out of ashtrays and into vermouth (Cinzano advertising slogan)
• If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying (Bob Dylan song lyric)
• In one ear and out the other
• In one piece
• In person
• In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king
• In words of one syllable
• Individual streak
• It Happened One Night (Clark Gable movie)
• It Takes People Like You To Make People Like Me (Buck Owens song)
• It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it (Maurice Switzer quotation)
• It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
• It takes one to know one
• It was just one of those things
• It's all about you (People Telecom advertising slogan)
• It's an ill wind that blows no one any good
• Join the Pepsi People (Pepsi advertising slogan)
• Just one more thing (A catchphrase from Columbo)
• Just one of those days
• Key of the door (Bingo call for number twenty one)
• Kill two birds with one stone
• Knit one purl one
• Last one there is a rotten egg
• Launch one's lunch
• Leading authority
• Lend one's name
• Let me make one thing perfectly clear
• Let one go
• Let one thousand flowers bloom
• Life is just one damned thing after another
• Like being savaged by a dead sheep
• Look after number one
• Look out for number one
• Make one's hackles rise
• Makes you feel human again (Solpadeine advertising slogan)
• Massage one's ego
• Minority of one
• Mirror mirror on the all who is the fairest one of all?
• More human interest (Washington Mutual advertising slogan)
• More than one string to your bow
• Morning person
• Mortal remains
• My one regret in life is that I am not someone else (Woody Allen line)
• Near to one's heart
• Neither one thing nor the other
• Nice one Cyril (A catchphrase from Wonderloaf)
• No One (Alicia Keys song)
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent (Eleanor Roosevelt quotation)
• No one expects the Spanish Inquisition (A catchphrase from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• No one likes us, we don't care (A catchphrase from Millwall football supporters)
• None other than
• Not a lot of people know that (A catchphrase from Michael Caine)
• Not my type (not a person one is attracted to)
• Now There is only one Mars (Mars Chocolate advertising slogan)
• Number one
• Number one concubine (name given to the partner of Bertrand Russell)
• Number one son
• Odd one out
• Of Human Bondage (Bette Davis movie)
• Of the people, for the people, by the people
• On the one hand
• One Cent (Nickname of Anfernee Hardaway)
• One Dog (Nickname of Lance Johnson)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Jack Nicholson movie)
• One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
• One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez book)
• One More Cup Of Coffee (Bob Dylan song)
• One More Night (Maroon 5 song)
• One Of Us Must Know (Bob Dylan song)
• One Size (Nickname of Fitz Hall)
• One Too Many Mornings (Bob Dylan song)
• One Tough (Nickname of Joaquin Andejar)
• One and all
• One and the same
• One armed bandit
• One brick short of a load
• One by one
• One card for home and abroad (Maestro advertising slogan)
• One fall, two submissions or a knockout
• One fine day
• One foot in the grave
• One for all and all for one
• One for sorrow (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth

• One for the book
• One for the road
• One good turn deserves another
• One half of the world does not know how the other half lives
• One hand tied behind your back
• One hand washes the other
• One hell of
• One horse town
• One in a billion (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• One in a million
• One in the eye
• One instinctively knows when something is right (Croft Original Sherry advertising slogan)
• One jump ahead of
• One law for the rich and another for the poor
• One leg at a time (Dockers advertising slogan)
• One liner
• One man and his dog
• One man's meat is another man's poison
• One man's trash is another man's treasure
• One man: one vote
• One may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
• One minute to midnight
• One moment please
• One more time
• One night stand
• One night stand investment
• One of life's little ironies
• One of the boys
• One of these days, Alice ... Pow! To the moon! (A catchphrase from The Honeymooners)
• One off
• One off the wrist
• One on one
• One out, all out
• One over the eight
• One ringy-dingy...two ringy-dingies (A catchphrase from Ernestine In Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In)
• One second
• One side of the story
• One size fits all
• One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind (Neil Armstrong quotation)
• One smart cookie
• One sprint many solutions (Sprint advertising slogan)
• One step ahead
• One step at a time
• One step forward, two steps back
• One stop shop
• One swallow doesn't make a summer
• One taste and your stuck on golden flake (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• One that Last (Duracell Batteries advertising slogan)
• One thing leads to another
• One to one
• One to remember
• One toe over the line
• One track mind
• One trick pony
• One two buckle my shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• One two many and you might turn Bertie (Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts advertising slogan)
• One two three o'clock four o'clock rock
• One volunteer is worth ten pressed men
• One wedding brings another
• One year's seeds make seven year weeds
• Only human
• Out of character
• 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
• Places to go, people to see, things to do
• Pleasing people the world over (Holiday Inn advertising slogan)
• Plus one
• Portrait painting (a form of painting in which the human face is the subject)
• Potty mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• Power to the people
• Prepare to want one (Hyundai advertising slogan)
• Public Enemy Number One (Nickname of John Dillinger)
• Pull a fast one
• Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People song)
• Put one foot in front of the other
• Put one over on
• Quality is job one (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Quick one
• Real food for real people (The beef industry advertising slogan)
• Rolled into one
• Room for one more inside
• Route one
• Seen one, seen them all
• Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
• Shuffle off this mortal coil
• Six of one and half a dozen of the other
• Sleep with one eye open
• So easy to use, no wonder it's number one (AOL advertising slogan)
• So no one told you life was gonna be this way
• Still the One (ABC advertising slogan)
• Stop me and buy one (Wall's Ice Cream advertising slogan)
• Stop me if you've heard this one
• Supreme being
• Take one day at a time
• Take one for the team
• Take someone to one side
• Ten one hundred
• That's a new one on me
• The Amazing One (Nickname of Alfredo Amezaga)
• The Chosen One (Nickname of LeBron James)
• The Great One (Nickname of comedian Jackie Gleason)
• The Human Eraser (Nickname of Marvin Webster)
• The Human Highlight Reel (Nickname of Dominique Wilkins)
• The Human Rain Delay (Nickname of Mike Hargrove)
• The Human Termite (Nickname of Joe Interleggi)
• The Human Victory Cigar (Nickname of Darko Milicic)
• The Importance Of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde book)
• The Importance of Being Ernest (play by Oscar Wilde)
• 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 Special One (Nickname of football manager Jose Mourinho)
• The Wild One (Marlon Brando movie)
• The flower of one's youth
• The human race
• The lights are on but there's no one at home
• The little people
• The milk of human kindness
• The most human handset (DiStar advertising slogan)
• The one and only Wonderbra (Wonderbra advertising slogan)
• The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals (Crispy Critters advertising slogan)
• The one that got away
• The one to watch (Channel 7 Australia advertising slogan)
• 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 right one (Martini advertising slogan)
• The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on
• The world around one
• There's more than one way to skin a cat
• There's not a soul out there, no one to hear my prayer (ABBA lyric)
• There's one born every minute
• There's only one
• This one will run and run
• Tie one on
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer
• To get one's back up
• 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)
• Two for one
• Two heads are better than one
• Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named Paul (line from nursery rhyme)
• Two steps forward and one step back
• Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman! (Coty Perfumes advertising slogan)
• Wardrobe mistress (a person in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company)
• We answer to a higher authority (Hebrew National hot dogs advertising slogan)
• We make things that bring people closer (Western Electrics advertising slogan)
• We the people
• We used to have one of those, but the wheels fell off
• We're Just One Big Happy Family (Richard Hawley song)
• We're just one big happy family
• We're the one (Sky Television advertising slogan)
• We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just one thing. The World's Best Tobacco (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• What Makes You Beautiful (One Direction song)
• What with one thing and another
• What's in your wallet? (Capital One advertising slogan)
• 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?
• Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
• Win faster (One Brand Group advertising slogan)
• Win friends and influence people
• With one bound he was at her side
• Work one's fingers to the bone
• World authority
• Worth one's weight in gold
• Wring one's hands
• Y.M.C.A. (Village People song)
• You are a one
• You can kiss that one goodbye
• You meet the nicest people on a Honda (Honda advertising slogan)
• You only get one chance to make a first impression
• You only hurt the one you love
• You're Wendy's kind of people (Wendy Burgers advertising slogan)
• You're the One That I Want (John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John song)
• You, of all people (exclamation when meeting someone unexpectedly)
• You, you're the one (McDonald's advertising slogan)

Related

• A person is known by the company he keeps
• Boat person
• Cat person
• Displaced person
• Evening person
• First among equals (the most senior person in a group of equal rank)
• Have you any last requests? (humorous question asked as though a person was about to be killed)
• Heavy hitter (A baseball expression meaning a powerful or commanding person)
• In person
• Morning person
• Not my type (not a person one is attracted to)
• People person
• Person of interest
• Person to person
• Potty mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid (Jane Austen quotation)
• Toilet mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• Wardrobe mistress (a person in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company)