Petition Phrases

Phrases

• A big ask
• All over him like a cheap suit
• Answers on a postcard
• Appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober
• Appeal to Caesar
• Appeal to your better judgment
• Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer
• Ask after
• Ask and you shall receive
• Ask around
• Ask for the moon
• Ask me another
• Ask no odds
• Ask no questions and hear no lies
• Ask not for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee
• Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country
• Ask out
• Ask the Man who Owns One (Packard advertising slogan)
• At a price to suit your pocket
• Bake off
• Beauty queen
• Beg a favour
• Beg off
• Beg pardon?
• Beg the question
• Beg to differ
• Beg, borrow or steal
• Bunny suit (Canadian military slang term for a cbrn (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear))
• Competitive disadvantage
• Cop a plea
• Curb appeal
• Cut and thrust
• Cut throat competition
• Cut your coat to suit your cloth
• Don't ask me
• Don't be vague, ask for Haig (Haig Scotch advertising slogan)
• Don't get vexed, ask Teletext (Teletext advertising slogan)
• Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars (line from the movie Now, Voyager)
• Dryest gin in town. Ask any Martini (Seagram's Gin advertising slogan)
• Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (David Reuben book)
• Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (Woody Allen movie)
• Eye up the competition
• Face the competition
• Feeding frenzy
• Final cut
• First cut
• Follow suit
• Funny you should ask
• Group of death (the most difficult or competitive group in a sports tournament)
• Head to head
• Highly commended
• Honourable mention
• I ask you
• I beg your pardon
• If you ain't first, you're last
• If you ask me
• If you have to ask the price you can't afford it (Rolls Royce slogan)
• In your birthday suit
• Keep up with the Joneses
• Kerb appeal
• Kerb appeal (The degree of attractiveness of a car at the kerbside)
• Let us pray
• Miss the cut
• On request
• Oxo gives a meal man appeal (Oxo gravy advertising slogan)
• Penguin suit
• Play softball (A baseball expression meaning to ask easy questions)
• Plea bargain
• Pray tell
• Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
• Shoot first, ask questions later
• Sit up and beg
• Spot the ball
• Stiff competition
• Suit up
• Suit you, sir (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Suit yourself
• Tastes so good cats ask for it by name (Meow Mix Cat food advertising slogan)
• The gift that keeps on giving
• Universal appeal
• Up for grabs
• Us versus them (denoting the emnity between two opposing groups)
• Whistle and flute (Cockney rhyming slang for suit)
• Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty? (ABBA lyric)
• Why ask why? Try Bud Dry (Budweiser Earl advertising slogan)
• You gotta ask yourself, do I feel lucky, well do ya punk? (Dirty Harry)
• Zoot suit