Playschool Phrases

Phrases

• A Doll's House (play by Henrik Ibsen)
• A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play (Mars Chocolate advertising slogan)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (Marlon Brando movie)
• Address the ball (golfing term denoting readiness to play)
• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
• Alma Mater (the school or college from which a person has graduated)
• An Ideal Husband (play by Oscar Wilde)
• And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
• Angels in America (play by Tony Kushner)
• Baa baa black sheep have you any wool? (line from nursery rhyme)
• Back to school
• Billy Liar (Novel and play by Keith Waterhouse and Tom Courtenay / Julie Christie movie)
• Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
• Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (play by Tennesee Williams and Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Charm school
• Child's play
• Chips With Everything (Arnold Wesker play)
• Close of play
• Come out and play
• Death of a Salesman (play by Arthur Miller)
• Ding dong bell Pussy's in the well (line from nursery rhyme)
• Doctor Foster went to Gloucester (line from nursery rhyme)
• Don't play the innocent
• Down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose (line from nursery rhyme)
• Everything to play for
• Everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go (line from nursery rhyme)
• Fair play
• Fair play to you
• Five for silver (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Five, six, pick up sticks (line from nursery rhyme)
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost (line from nursery rhyme)
• Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie (line from nursery rhyme)
• Four for a boy (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Games people play
• Georgie Porgie pudding and pie (line from nursery rhyme)
• Glow Little Glow-worm (children's nursery rhyme)
• Go and play in the traffic
• Goosey Goosey Gander where shall I wander (line from nursery rhyme)
• Gunpowder treason and plot (line from nursery rhyme)
• Half a pound of tuppenny rice, half a pound of treacle (line from nursery rhyme)
• He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum (line from nursery rhyme)
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• He will never play the piano again
• Hedda Gabler (play by Henrik Ibsen)
• Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle (line from nursery rhyme)
• Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Horse play
• How does that play in Peoria?
• Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall (line from nursery rhyme)
• I took my harp to the party but no one asked me to play
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• In play
• It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play (Beatles song lyric)
• It's good to play together (Microsoft Xbox advertising slogan)
• It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game
• It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring
• Itsy Bitsy spider climbing up the spout, down came the rain and washed the spider out (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jack Sprat could eat no fat (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jack be nimble Jack be quick (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jack fell down and broke his crown (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jack jump over the candlestick (line from nursery rhyme)
• Juno and the Paycock (play by Sean O'Casey)
• Kid n' Play (Nickname of Kevin Martin)
• Lady Windermere's Fan (play by Oscar Wilde)
• Little Bo peep has lost her sheep (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Jack Horner sat in a corner (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Tommy Tucker sings for his supper (line from nursery rhyme)
• Live in your world, play in ours (Sony advertising slogan)
• London bridge is falling down (line from nursery rhyme)
• Long Day's Journey into Night (play by Eugene O'Neil)
• Love play
• Lucy Locket lost her pocket (line from nursery rhyme)
• Make a play for
• Make great play of
• Man and Superman (play by George Bernard Shaw)
• Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow (line from nursery rhyme)
• Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• Mother Courage (play by Bertolt Brecht)
• Mourning Becomes Electra (play by Eugene O'Neill)
• Nanny state
• Never tell tales out of school
• O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo (from the play by Shakespeare)
• Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he (line from nursery rhyme)
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• Old school
• Old school tie
• One for sorrow (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• One two buckle my shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• Oranges and lemons say the bells of Saint Clements (line from nursery rhyme)
• Pat a cake, Pat a cake, baker's man, bake me a cake as fast as you can (line from nursery rhyme)
• Peter Peter pumpkin eater (line from nursery rhyme)
• Play Cupid
• Play God
• Play Misty For Me (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Play a blinder
• Play a waiting game
• Play around
• Play ball
• Play both ends against the middle
• Play by ear
• Play by play
• Play by the rules
• Play catch up
• Play catchup
• Play chicken
• Play dead
• Play devil's advocate
• Play dirty
• Play ducks and drakes
• Play fast and loose
• Play favorites
• Play favourites
• Play for keeps
• Play for time
• Play from the tips
• Play gooseberry
• Play hard to get
• Play hardball (A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive)
• Play havoc with
• Play hell
• Play hide the sausage
• Play hookey
• Play it again Sam
• Play it again, Sam (New York State Lottery advertising slogan)
• Play it by the book
• Play it cool
• Play it for laughs
• Play it safe
• Play kissy face
• Play off
• Play possum
• Play safe
• Play second fiddle
• Play silly buggers
• Play softball (A baseball expression meaning to ask easy questions)
• Play the field (- indulge in a series of sexual relationships)
• Play the fool
• Play the game
• Play the old soldier
• Play the percentage game
• Play the race card
• Play the white man
• Play to win
• Play with fire
• Play within a play
• Play your cards right
• Play your part
• Play yourself in
• Playboy of the Western World (play by John Millington Synge)
• Plug and play
• Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea (line from nursery rhyme)
• Pussycat pussycat, where have you been? (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rain, rain go away, come again another day (line from nursery rhyme)
• Remember remember the fifth of November (line from nursery rhyme)
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• Ring aring of roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Roll over and play dead
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play by Tom Stoppard)
• Round and round the garden like a teddy bear (line from nursery rhyme)
• School dunce
• School for scandal
• School of fish
• School of hard knocks
• School of thought
• School's out for summer
• School's out forever
• Seesaw Margery Daw Johnny shall have a new master (line from nursery rhyme)
• Seven for a secret, never to be told (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• She Stoops to Conquer (play by Oliver Goldsmith)
• Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair (line from nursery rhyme)
• Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye (line from nursery rhyme)
• Six for gold (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Sticks and snails and puppy dog's tails that's what little boys are made of (line from nursery rhyme)
• Sugar and spice and all things nice that's what little girls are made of (line from nursery rhyme)
• Sunday school
• Sword play
• Talk out of school
• Tell tales out of school
• The Admirable Crichton (Play by J M Barrie and nickname of James Crichton)
• The Adventure of the Priory School (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Big Ship Sails on The Ally-Ally-Oh (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Boys in the Band (play by Mart Crowley)
• The Bronx Zoo (Nickname of Benjamin Harrison High School)
• The Cherry Orchard (play by Anton Chekhov)
• The Devil's Disciple (Bernard Shaw play and Burt Lancaster movie)
• The Ginger Man (play by JP Donleavy)
• The Glass Menagerie (play by Tennessee Williams)
• The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Iceman Cometh (play by Eugene O'Neill)
• The Importance of Being Ernest (play by Oscar Wilde)
• The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Plough and the Stars (play by Sean O'Casey)
• The Quare Fellow (play by Brendan Behan)
• The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts all on a summer's day (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Scottish play
• The cow jumped over the moon (line from nursery rhyme)
• The dish ran away with the spoon (line from nursery rhyme)
• The house that Jack built (line from nursery rhyme)
• The king was in his counting house counting out his money (line from nursery rhyme)
• The play's the thing
• The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey (line from nursery rhyme)
• The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn (line from nursery rhyme)
• There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile (line from nursery rhyme)
• There was an old woman who lived in a shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• They danced by the light of the moon (line from nursery rhyme)
• They dined on mince, and slices of quince (line from nursery rhyme)
• 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)
• Three blind mice, see how they run (line from nursery rhyme)
• Three for a girl (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Three, four, knock at the door (line from nursery rhyme)
• Threepenny Opera (play by Bertolt Brecht)
• Tom Tom the pipers son stole a pig and away he ran (line from nursery rhyme)
• Triple play (A baseball expression denoting the act of making three outs during the same play)
• Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are (line from nursery rhyme)
• Two can play at that game
• Two for joy (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named Paul (line from nursery rhyme)
• Up above the world so high , like a diamond in the sky (line from nursery rhyme)
• Upstairs, downstairs and in my lady's chamber (line from nursery rhyme)
• View from a Bridge (play by Arthur Miller)
• Waiting for Godot (play by Samuel Beckett)
• Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town, upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown (line from nursery rhyme)
• What Katy Did At School
• When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
• When the cat's away the mice will play
• When they were up, they were up (line from nursery rhyme)
• Who killed Cock Robin (line from nursery rhyme)
• Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? (play by Edward Albee)
• With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes she shall have music wherever she goes (line from nursery rhyme)
• With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row (line from nursery rhyme)
• You hum it and I'll play it