Petite Phrases

Phrases

• ...Baby One More Time (Britney Spears album and song)
• A bear of very little brain
• A little bird told me
• A little dab'll do ya (Brylcreem advertising slogan)
• A little help from above
• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
• A little learning is a dangerous thing (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• A little of what you fancy does you good
• A still small voice
• All creatures great and small
• All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt (Charles M. Schulz quotation)
• And baby makes three
• As easy as taking candy from a baby
• As helpless as a baby
• As small as the hairs on a gnat's bollock
• As smooth as a baby's bottom
• As sure as God made little green apples
• Baby Braves (Nickname of a group of Atlanta Braves)
• Baby Bull (Nickname of baseball player Orlando Cepeda)
• Baby Cakes (Nickname of Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby))
• Baby Doc (Nickname of Jean Claude Duvalier)
• Baby Doll (Nickname of boxer Elena Reid)
• Baby Girl (Nickname of boxer Leatitia Robinson)
• Baby Gramps (Nickname of basketball player Greg Oden)
• Baby I Need Your Loving (Four Tops song)
• Baby Jordan (Nickname of basketball player Harold Miner)
• Baby Love (The Supremes song)
• Baby Please Don't Go (Muddy Waters song)
• Baby Shaq (Nickname of Sofoklis Schortsanitis)
• Baby You're A Rich Man (The Beatles song)
• Baby blues
• Baby boomer
• Baby brain (forgetfulness caused by lack of sleep when caring for a newborn)
• Baby bunting
• Baby face
• Baby father
• Baby grand
• Baby needs new shoes
• Baby on board
• Baby shower
• Baby snatcher
• Baby split
• Baby steps
• Baby you can drive my car (Beatles song lyric)
• Baby, you can park my car
• Baby, you're the greatest. (A catchphrase from The Honeymooners)
• Bama Lama Bama Loo (Little Richard song)
• Big Baby (Nickname of basketball player Glen Davis)
• Big fish eat little fish
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Big fleas have little fleas
• Boston Tar Baby (Nickname of boxer Sam Langford)
• Bringing Up Baby (Cary Grant / Katharine Hepburn movie)
• Come On Baby Light My Fire (The Doors song)
• Computer says no (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Queen song)
• Cry baby
• Daddy's little girl
• Dirty little secret
• Don't Worry Baby (Beach Boys song)
• Don't be such a baby
• Don't sweat the small stuff
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Dream a little dream of you
• Drill, baby, drill
• Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (Police song)
• Every little helps (Tesco advertising slogan)
• Everything you want from a store and a little bit more (Safeway Supermarkets advertising slogan)
• Get a little extra help (Halifax advertising slogan)
• Give your baby something you never had as a baby. A drier bottom (Pampers advertising slogan)
• Glow Little Glow-worm (children's nursery rhyme)
• Gnat's bollock (slang term for a very small unit of measurement)
• Good Golly Miss Molly (Little Richard song)
• Good things come in small packages
• Good things come in small parcels
• Greasy spoon (a small cheap cafe selling fried food)
• Hasta la vista baby (A catchphrase from Arnold Schwarzeneggar)
• Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Judy Garland song)
• I Say A Little Prayer (Aretha Franklin song)
• I am the only gay in the village (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• I spy with my little eye
• I want that one (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Bob Dylan song)
• I'll Get By With Little Help From My Friends (The Beatles song)
• I'm a laydee (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• I'm a little bit wooooor, a little bit waaaaaaaaaayy, I'm a geezer! (A catchphrase from Chris The Crafty Cockney In The Fast Show)
• I've got a little list
• Ice, ice baby
• Into every life a little rain must fall
• Is You Is Or Is You Ain't, My Baby? (Louis Jordan song)
• Is you is or is you ain't, my baby?
• It's All Over Now Baby Blue (Bob Dylan song)
• Jagged Little Pill (Alanis Morissette album)
• Keep A Knockin' (Little Richard song)
• Left holding the baby
• Life's little luxuries
• Little Bo peep has lost her sheep (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Boxes (Pete Seeger song)
• Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Brown Jug (Glenn Miller tune)
• Little Chocolate (Nickname of George Dixon)
• Little Cuba (Nickname of Miami Florida)
• Little Deuce Coupe (Beach Boys song)
• Little General (Nickname of Avery Johnson)
• Little Hands of Stone (Nickname of Michael Carbajal)
• Little Hitler
• Little Jack Horner sat in a corner (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little London (Nickname of Gothenburg Sweden)
• Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little New York (Nickname of Carmelo Anthony)
• Little Poison (Nickname of Lloyd Waner)
• Little Red Corvette (Prince song)
• Little Red Rooster (Rolling Stones song)
• Little Rhody (Nickname of the US state of Rhode Island)
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Sure Shot (Nickname of Annie Oakley)
• Little Tommy Tucker sings for his supper (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little White Bull (Tommy Steele song)

• Little Women (Louisa May Alcott book)
• Little black book
• Little black dress
• Little black number
• Little blighter
• Little boxes made of ticky tacky
• Little by little
• Little devil
• Little fish in a big pond (someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers)
• Little gentleman in the velvet coat
• Little green men
• Little pitchers have big ears
• Little strokes fell great oaks
• Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape
• Little things please little minds
• Little tin god
• Little treasure
• Little white lie
• Long Tall Sally (Little Richard song)
• Make little of
• Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• Maybe Baby (Buddy Holly song)
• Mighty oaks from little acorns grow
• Million Dollar Baby (Hilary Swank / Clint Eastwood movie)
• Mother's little helper
• Move On Up a Little Higher (Mahalia Jackson song)
• My Baby Left Me (Elvis Presley song)
• New arrival (colloquial term for a newborn baby)
• No job too small
• Nothing to worry your pretty little head about
• O ye, of little faith
• Oh little town of Bethlehem
• One of life's little ironies
• One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind (Neil Armstrong quotation)
• Pizza! Pizza! (Little Caesars restaurants advertising slogan)
• Poor little rich girl
• Precious little
• Quite the little gentleman
• Ready Teddy (Little Richard song)
• Rock Your Baby (George McCrae song)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Santa's Little Helpers (allusion to the elves that help Father Christmas)
• Seeing small business differently (SBC Communications advertising slogan)
• Shouldn't your baby be a Gerber baby? (Gerber Products advertising slogan)
• Show a little leg
• Sleep like a baby
• Small beer
• Small fortune
• Small is beautiful
• Small minded
• Small potatoes
• Small wonder
• Small wonder (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• So Farley's, so good (Farley's Baby Food advertising slogan)
• So many books, so little time (Frank Zappa quotation)
• Solutions for a small planet (IBM advertising slogan)
• Sticks and snails and puppy dog's tails that's what little boys are made of (line from nursery rhyme)
• Suffer the little children
• Sugar and spice and all things nice that's what little girls are made of (line from nursery rhyme)
• Sweet Baby James (James Taylor song)
• Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry / Beatles song)
• Talk to me, baby
• Test tube baby
• The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas (Burt Reynolds / Dolly Parton movie)
• The Girl Can't Help It (Little Richard song and movie)
• The God Of Small Things (Arundhati Roy book)
• The Little Big Man (Nickname of Sharmba Mitchell)
• The Little Buttercup (Nickname of Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason))
• The Little Corporal (Nickname of Napoleon Bonaparte)
• The Little Drummer Boy (Harry Simeone Chorale song)
• The Little Engine (Nickname of T.J.Ford)
• The Little Lady (Nickname of Jo Anne Santini (Michele Scarabelli))
• The Little Master (Nickname of Sachin Tendulkar - Indian cricketer)
• The Little Mermaid (Disney cartoon movie)
• The Little Paris (Nickname of Bucharest Romania)
• The Little Queen of the Soap Operas (Nickname of actress Anne Francis)
• The Little Sparrow (Nickname of Edith Piaf)
• The Little Witch (Nickname of Juan Sebastian Veron)
• The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer
• The little boys' room
• The little dog laughed to see such fun
• The little engine that could
• The little people
• The next small thing
• The patter of tiny feet
• The small screen
• The still small voice of God
• The winner takes it all, the loser standing small (ABBA lyric)
• There's a little McDonald's in Everyone (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• These little things are sent to try us
• Think small (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• This little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none (line from nursery rhyme)
• This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed at home (line from nursery rhyme)
• Throw the baby out with the bathwater
• Time out for tiny little tea leaves in Tetley Tea (Tetley Tea advertising slogan)
• Tiptoe through the tulips (1920s Broadway song and Tiny Tim hit)
• Too Busy Thinking About My Baby (Marvin Gaye song)
• Too little, too late
• Try A Little Tenderness (Otis Redding song)
• Tutti Frutti (Little Richard song)
• Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are (line from nursery rhyme)
• Twist around your little finger
• Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named Paul (line from nursery rhyme)
• Two little ducks (Bingo call for number twenty two)
• War baby (someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier)
• Wee small hours of the morning
• Wet the baby's head
• Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? (Bette Davis movie)
• When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
• Who loves ya baby? (A catchphrase from Kojak)
• Who's little boy are you?
• With A Little Help From My Friends (The Beatles song)
• Wrapped around your little finger
• Yeah but, no but (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• Yeah, I know (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby (Bing Crosby song)
• You'll look a little lovelier each day, with fabulous pink Camay (Camay Soap advertising slogan)
• You've come a long way, baby (Virginia Slims Cigarettes advertising slogan)