Practise Phrases

Phrases

• Best practice
• Brush up on
• Don't try this at home
• Don't try to run before you can walk
• Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs
• Don't try to walk before you can crawl
• Dry run
• Eye it try it buy it! (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
• Get into the swing of it
• Give it the old college try
• Go over
• Got it down to a fine art
• Got my eye in
• Gravy train
• Has your girl turned into a refrigerator? If her air is arctic, try MUM (Mum Deodorant advertising slogan)
• Hey, Soul Sister (Train song)
• If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again
• If gas pains persist, try Volkswagen (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• Imagine no religion, it's easy if you try
• It's never too late to learn
• Keep your hand in
• Learn the ropes
• Learn your lesson
• Let the train take the strain (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Live and learn
• Live as if you will die tomorrow but learn as if you will live forever (Mahatma Ghandhi quotation)
• Nice try
• Night Train (Nickname of Dick Lane)
• Off pat
• Out of practice
• Practice makes perfect
• Practice what you preach

• Road train
• Set in train
• Shoot hoops
• Soul train
• Strangers On A Train (Farley Granger / Alfred Hitchcock movie)
• Swing for the fences (A baseball expression meaning try for a substantial gain)
• Take The A Train (Duke Ellington tune)
• The Big Train (Nickname of Walter Johnson)
• The light at the end of the tunnel may just be a train coming the other way
• These little things are sent to try us
• This is the age of the train (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it
• Train crash
• Train of thought
• Train whistle blowing
• Train wreck
• Try A Little Tenderness (Otis Redding song)
• Try everything once, except incest and folk dancing (Sir Thomas Beecham quotation)
• Try it on the dog
• Try it, you'll like it (Alka Seltzer advertising slogan)
• Try your hand
• Try your luck
• Ukraine Train (Nickname of Vitaly Potapenko)
• Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman! (Coty Perfumes advertising slogan)
• Watch and learn
• We try harder (Avis car rental advertising slogan)
• We're number two. We try harder (Avis Rent-a-Car advertising slogan)
• What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
• Why ask why? Try Bud Dry (Budweiser Earl advertising slogan)
• You are never too old to learn
• You could learn a lot from a dummy, Buckle Up (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration advertising slogan)
• You've seen the rest, now try the best