Precious Phrases

Phrases

• A fine line
• A pot of gold
• After The Gold Rush (Neil Young song)
• After you, my dear Alphonse
• All that glisters is not gold
• Always pick Flowers (Flowers Fine Ales advertising slogan)
• As fine as frog's hair
• As good as gold
• Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head (The Beatles song lyric)
• Born with a silver spoon in his mouth
• Chance would be a fine thing
• Coffee at its best (Nescafe Gold Blend advertising slogan)
• Crock of gold
• Cross my palm with silver
• Crown Jewels
• Cut it fine
• Damn fine coffee (A catchphrase from Twin Peaks)
• Dear Dirty Dublin (Nickname of Dublin Ireland)
• Dear John
• Dear Prudence (The Beatles song)
• Deep Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Elementary my dear Watson (A catchphrase from Sherlock Holmes)
• Every dark cloud has a silver lining
• Fine and dandy
• Fine dining
• Fine feathered
• Fine figure of a man
• Fine figure of a woman
• Fine words butter no parsnips
• Five for silver (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Fool's gold (a brassy yellow mineral that the inexperienced prospector may mistake for gold)
• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn (Gone With the Wind)
• Get a gold star (earn a merit point for doing well)
• Go for gold
• Go through with a fine toothed comb
• Gold digger
• Good as gold (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• Got it down to a fine art
• Hang on for dear life
• Heart Of Gold (Neil Young song)
• Heart of gold
• Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into (A catchphrase from Laurel And Hardy)
• Hidden gem
• Hiyo Silver away (A catchphrase from The Lone Ranger)
• Hold on for dear life
• I Feel Fine (Beatles song)
• In fine fettle
• In fine form
• Is your film as good as Gold? (Kodak advertising slogan)
• Martha My Dear (The Beatles song)
• Maxwell's Silver Hammer (The Beatles song)
• Murderers' Row (A baseball expression denoting a group of talented individuals or valuable assets)
• My precious (The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers)
• Near and dear to my heart
• Not a cough in a carload (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Not to put too fine a point on it
• Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
• One fine day
• Precious little
• Pure gold (Benson & Hedges advertising slogan)
• Rain before seven, fine before eleven
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• See the face you love light up with Terry's All Gold (Terrys Chocolates advertising slogan)
• Selling the family silver
• Short Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silver Blaze (Sherlock Holmes story)
• Silver bullet (a simple and seeming effortless solution to a difficult problem)
• Silver circle
• Silver fox (a handsome grey-haired man)
• Silver screen
• Silver service (a method of serving food using silver cutlery)
• Silver surfer (an older person who uses the World Wide Web)
• Silver threads amongst the gold (blonde hair that is turning grey)
• Silver tongued (eloquent or persuasive manner of speech)
• Silver wedding (a celebration of twenty-five years of marriage)
• Six for gold (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Speech is silver but silence is golden
• Star of the silver screen
• TV gold
• That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine (Gene Autry song)
• The Artful Dodger (Nickname of Jack Dawkins)
• The English summer: three fine days and a thunderstorm
• The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin movie)
• The Gold Standard
• The Silver Fox (Nickname of Edwin Snider)
• The Silver Prince (Nickname of Sourav Ganguly - Indian cricketer)
• The family silver
• The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
• The streets of London are paved with gold
• There's gold in them thar hills
• This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
• To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
• Treading a fine line
• We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just one thing. The World's Best Tobacco (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• With a hearty hiho Silver
• With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row (line from nursery rhyme)
• Worth one's weight in gold