Petty Phrases

Phrases

• A narrow fellow in the grass (from a poem by Emily Dickinson)
• A still small voice
• All creatures great and small
• As small as the hairs on a gnat's bollock
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Don't sweat the small stuff
• First World problem (a relatively trivial problem only affecting the affluent)
• Gnat's bollock (slang term for a very small unit of measurement)
• Good things come in small packages
• Good things come in small parcels
• Greasy spoon (a small cheap cafe selling fried food)
• I don't mean maybe
• It don't mean a thing if it ain't got swing
• Just because you are paranoid it doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you
• Keep on the straight and narrow
• Lean and mean
• Lean mean fighting machine
• Lean, mean and hungry
• Mean Joe (Nickname of Joe Greene)
• Mean Mr. Mustard (Beatles song)
• Mean Streets (Robert De Niro movie)
• Mean and selfish
• Mean business
• Mean spirited
• Narrow down
• Narrow escape
• Narrow minded
• No job too small
• No mean feat

• One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind (Neil Armstrong quotation)
• Parish pump
• Points mean prizes
• Say what you mean and mean what you say
• See what we mean (Canon advertising slogan)
• Seeing small business differently (SBC Communications advertising slogan)
• Shallow end
• Small beer
• Small fortune
• Small is beautiful
• Small minded
• Small potatoes
• Small wonder
• Small wonder (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• Solutions for a small planet (IBM advertising slogan)
• Straight and narrow
• The God Of Small Things (Arundhati Roy book)
• The Golden Mean
• The Queen Of Mean (Nickname of Anne Robinson)
• The next small thing
• The small screen
• The still small voice of God
• The winner takes it all, the loser standing small (ABBA lyric)
• Think small (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• We mean business
• Wee small hours of the morning
• Well, she was just seventeen you know what I mean (The Beatles song lyric)
• What do points mean? Points mean prizes (A catchphrase from Price Is Right)
• What you mean we, white man?