Poverty Phrases

Phrases

• A fool and his money are soon parted
• A friend in need is a friend indeed
• A poor relation
• A poor workman blames his tools
• Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
• All I Really Want To Do (Bob Dylan song)
• All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (Spike Jones song)
• All I Want For Christmas Is You (Maria Carey song)
• All You Need Is Love (Beatles song)
• All we want is the facts Ma'am (A catchphrase from Dragnet)
• All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt (Charles M. Schulz quotation)
• Any way you want it
• As poor as a church mouse
• Baby I Need Your Loving (Four Tops song)
• Badly off
• Business need
• Crunch all you want, we'll make more (Doritos advertising slogan)
• Dirt poor
• Do You Really Want to Hurt Me (Culture Club song)
• Do You Want To Know A Secret? (Beatles song)
• Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? (Warner's Body Bra advertising slogan)
• Do you want the good news or the bad news?
• Down on his luck
• Eats shooots and leaves (classic example of the need for punctuation)
• Eke out a living
• Everything you want from a store and a little bit more (Safeway Supermarkets advertising slogan)
• Fall on hard times
• Feel the pinch
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost (line from nursery rhyme)
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
• Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper song)
• Grapes, like children, need love and affection (Almaden advertising slogan)
• Hard pressed
• Hard times
• Hard up
• Hasn't got two cents to rub together
• I Pity The Poor Immigrant (Bob Dylan song)
• I Want Somebody To Love (The Beatles song)
• I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles song)
• I Want You (Bob Dylan song)
• I Want You Back (The Jackson 5 song)
• I don't want to say I told you so, but I told you so
• I need it yesterday
• I want YOU for the US Army (World War I and World War II advertising slogan)
• I want my MTV (MTV advertising slogan)
• I want my Maypo (Maypo advertising slogan)
• I want that one (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• I want to be alone (A catchphrase from Grand Hotel)
• I want to talk to the organ grinder not the monkey
• I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens (Woody Allen quotation)
• If life were like that, you wouldn't need a VISA card (VISA advertising slogan)
• If this is wrong I don't want to be right
• If you want Kentucky Fried Chicken, you have to visit me (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself
• If you want to get ahead, get a hat (Hat Council advertising slogan)
• If you want to impress someone, put him on your Black list (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife (the opening line of Pride and Prejudice)
• It's My Party And I'll Cry If I Want To (Lesley Gore song)
• It's everywhere you want to be (Visa advertising slogan)

• Lean times
• Love is all you need (The Beatles song lyric)
• Make do
• Make poverty history
• Mendoza line (A baseball expression denoting a line marking a very poor performance)
• Minimum wage
• Money, That's What I Want (The Beatles song)
• Need You Now (Lady Antebellum song)
• Need your head examined
• Nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there
• Not a penny to bless yourself with,
• Not two pennies to rub together
• Of slender means
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• On a need to know basis
• On queer street
• On skid row
• On the wrong side of the tracks
• On your uppers
• One law for the rich and another for the poor
• Piss poor
• Polly want a cracker?
• Poor but honest
• Poor little rich girl
• Poor thing but mine own
• Prepare to want one (Hyundai advertising slogan)
• Rags to riches
• Rich man poor man beggerman thief
• Rubber chicken (poor quality or overcooked chicken)
• Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
• Scrape a living
• Shoestring budget
• Stop the world I want to get off
• The Poor Bloody Infantry (term used to describe the British infantry in WWI)
• The crumbs from a rich man's table
• The more you get the more you want
• The need for speed
• The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
• Thin time of it
• Want a better Internet? You belong at America Online (AOL advertising slogan)
• Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman! (Coty Perfumes advertising slogan)
• Want some seafood Mama (Fats Waller song)
• Want to reach 8 out of 10 adults - walk this way (Yellow Pages advertising slogan)
• Waste not, want not
• We Need To Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver book)
• We are going to need considerably bigger buns (line from Calendar Girls)
• We're gonna need a bigger boat (Jaws advertising tagline)
• What You Want is What You Get (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• What we want is Watney's (Watney's beer advertising slogan)
• What women want
• Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away (Robert Maynard Hutchins quotation)
• Where do you want to go today? (Microsoft advertising slogan)
• Who's finger do you want on the trigger?
• You Can't Always Get What You Want (The Rolling Stone song)
• You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows
• You don't need caffeine. And neither does your cola (Like Cola advertising slogan)
• You say you want a revolution (Line from Beatles song)
• You're going to need a bigger boat (Jaws)
• You're the One That I Want (John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John song)