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Plot Phrases

178 phrases and expressions related to "plot".

Phrases

  • A Case Of Identity (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • A Scandal in Bohemia (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • A prophet is not recognized in his own land
  • Action plan
  • America's story teller (Kodak advertising slogan)
  • An everyday story of country folk (A catchphrase from The Archers)
  • Bone yard
  • Bonfire Night
  • Breaking story
  • Business plan
  • Captain Underpants And The Perilous Plot Of Professor Poopypants (Dav Pilkey book)
  • Character driven fiction
  • Cloud cuckoo land
  • Cock and bull story
  • Conspiracy of silence
  • Cook up a plan
  • Cover story
  • Cut a long story short
  • End of story
  • Every picture tells a story (Doanes Backache Kidney Pills advertising slogan)
  • Evil genius
  • Failing to plan is planning to fail
  • Fairytale ending (a happy simplistic ending to a story similar to those found in fairy tales)
  • False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
  • Fishy story
  • From the Land of Sky-Blue Waters (Hamm's Beer advertising slogan)
  • Game plan
  • Genius bonus (a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed people)
  • God's acre
  • Great Land (Nickname of the US state of Alaska)
  • Gunpowder treason and plot (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Hanging by a thread
  • He's a real nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land (The Beatles song lyric)
  • Hell's half acre
  • His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • I have a cunning plan (A catchphrase from Blackadder)
  • In the grand scheme of things
  • In the land of Nod
  • In the land of the living
  • Inside story
  • Junk Yard Dog (Nickname of Jerome Williams)
  • Knacker's yard
  • L A Story (Steve Martin movie)
  • La la land
  • Land ahoy
  • Land grab
  • Land locked
  • Land of hope and glory
  • Land of make believe
  • Land of milk and honey
  • Land of nod
  • Land of the pharaohs
  • Land office business
  • Land on your feet
  • Land up in
  • Land's sake
  • Lend a hand on the land (WWII slogan)
  • Living off the fat of the land
  • Lose the plot
  • Lose the thread
  • Lost the plot
  • Love Story (Ali MacGraw / Ryan O'Neal movie)
  • Love Story (Taylor Swift song)
  • Love means never having to say you're sorry (Love Story)
  • Man with a plan
  • Meadow muffin
  • Moral compass
  • My side of the story
  • Never never land
  • No man's land
  • Not a patch on
  • Not in my back yard
  • Office politics
  • One side of the story
  • Out to pasture
  • Paternal bonus (a joke or theme added to a childrens programme aimed at adults)
  • Plan B
  • Plan ahead
  • Ponzi scheme
  • Purple patch
  • Put out to pasture
  • Pyramid scheme
  • Same old story
  • Silver Blaze (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • Sob story
  • Story of my life
  • Suicide is painless (title of the theme song to MASH tv series and film)
  • Swallows And Amazons (children's adventure story by Arthur Ransome)
  • The Adventure of Black Peter (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Abbey Grange (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Cardboard Box (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Creeping Man (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Crooked Man (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Dancing Men (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Dying Detective (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Empty House (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Gloria Scott (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Illustrious Client (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Lion's Mane (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Naval Treaty (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Priory School (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Red Circle (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Red-Headed League (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Reigate Squire (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Resident Patient (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Retired Colourman (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Second Stain (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Speckled Band (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Three Gables (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Three Garridebs (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Three Students (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Yellow Face (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Boscombe Valley Mystery (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Final Problem (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Five Orange Pips (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Flying Squad (Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard)
  • The Greatest Story Ever Told (Charlton Heston movie)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Invisible Man (HG Wells story and later a film)
  • The Land of The Rising Sun (Nickname of Japan)
  • The Lord of the Rings (J R R Tolkien story and Peter Jackson movie)
  • The Man with the Twisted Lip (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Palm Beach Story (Claudette Colbert movie)
  • The Philadelphia Story (Cary Grant / Katharine Hepburn movie)
  • The Problem of Thor Bridge (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne story)
  • The Sign of the Four (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Story Of Tracy Beaker (children's story by Jacqueline Wilson)
  • The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Waste Land
  • The land of Nod
  • The land of the free
  • The land that time forgot
  • The law of the land
  • The lay of the land
  • The length and breadth of the land
  • The lie of the land
  • The overall scheme of things
  • The plot thickens
  • The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn (line from nursery rhyme)
  • There is no Plan B
  • This Hard Land (Bruce Springsteen song)
  • This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie song)
  • Thus far into the bowels of the land
  • To cut a long story short
  • To infinty and beyond (line from the movie Toy Story)
  • To make a long story short
  • Toy Story (Tom Hanks movie)
  • West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie)
  • What's The Story Morning Glory? (Oasis album)