Present Phrases

Phrases

• ...Baby One More Time (Britney Spears album and song)
• A Brief History Of Time (Stephen Hawking book)
• A finger of Fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat (Cadbury's advertising slogan)
• A good time was had by all
• A stitch in time saves nine
• A token of our gratitude
• A week is a long time in politics
• About time too
• Ahead of his time
• All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (Spike Jones song)
• All in a good time
• All over the show
• All present and correct
• All the time in the world
• All time low
• All together now (invitation to join in communal singing)
• All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt (Charles M. Schulz quotation)
• Am I bovvered? (A catchphrase from The Catherine Tate Show)
• America's Oldest Living Teenager (Nickname of game show host Dick Clark)
• America's most gifted whiskey (Four Roses Whiskey advertising slogan)
• And now for something completely different (A catchphrase from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• And the Academy Award goes to...
• Any time, any place, any where (Martini advertising slogan)
• Any time, anywhere, acid indigestion can catch you out (Alka Selzer advertising slogan)
• Apocalypse Now (Marlon Brando movie)
• Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
• Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?
• Aren't you hungry for Burger King now? (Burger King advertising slogan)
• Argue the toss
• As large as life
• As time goes by
• At first hand
• At this moment in time
• At this point in time
• Australians wouldn't give a XXXX for anything else (Castlemaine XXXX Lager advertising slogan)
• Award yourself the CDM (Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate advertising slogan)
• Bad time
• Bath time
• Best in show
• Best stop now
• Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow
• Better luck next time
• Bide your time
• Big time
• Boutros Boutros Ghali (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Buy Opera today And make this banner go away (Opera advertising slogan)
• Buy now pay later
• Buy some time
• Buy time
• Call time on
• Can I do you now, sir? (A catchphrase from It's That Man Again (ITMA))
• Can you hear me now? Good! (Verizon wireless advertising slogan)
• Cattle show
• Christmas box
• Christmas is a time to believe in things you can't see (3M Company Scotch Tape advertising slogan)
• Chucking out time
• Clear and present danger
• Come together right now over me (Beatles song lyric)
• Compassion fatigue
• Courier Express. Today's delivery problems solved tomorrow (Courier Express advertising slogan)
• Crunch time
• Current events
• Daylight saving time (the adjustment of clocks to provide longer evening daylight)
• Dead on time
• Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today
• Dickens of a time
• Did you Maclean your teeth today? (Maclean's Toothpaste advertising slogan)
• Do hard time (Spend time in a high security prison)
• Do you love anyone enough to give them your last Rolo? (Rolo Chocolate advertising slogan)
• Doctor, doctor, give me the news, I've got a bad case of loving you (Robert Palmer song lyric)
• Does my bum look big in this? (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Dog and pony show
• Don't Give Up (Kate Bush Peter Gabriel song)
• Don't Look Now (Julie Christie / Donald Sutherland movie)
• Don't Stop Me Now (Queen song)
• Don't give a fig
• Don't give a hang
• Don't give a monkey's
• Don't give two hoots
• Don't give up the day job
• Don't give up the ship (Cutty Sark Whisky advertising slogan)
• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
• Double time
• Enjoy the Show (E! Entertainment Television advertising slogan)
• Equal pay, equal time (Bulova Watches advertising slogan)
• Every time a bell rings, an angel gets it's wings (line from It's A Wonderful Life)
• Every time a good time (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Face time
• Father Knows Best (American TV Show)
• First time caller
• Fly now. Shovel later (Eastern Airlines advertising slogan)
• For free
• For the benefit of Mr.Kite there will be a show tonight on trampoline (Beatles song lyric)
• For the time being
• Forever is a long time
• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn (Gone With the Wind)
• From the beginning of time
• From time immemorial
• From time to time
• Game time
• Geological time
• Get the show on the road
• Gift from the gods
• Gift of life
• Gift of the gab
• Gift of time
• Give 'till it hurts
• Give Me Everything (Pitbull with Ne-Yo, Afrojack, and Nayer song)
• Give Peace A Chance (John Lennon song)
• Give a dog a bad name
• Give a dog a bad name and hang him
• Give a good account of yourself
• Give a hand
• Give a hoot, don't pollute (United States Forest Service advertising slogan)
• Give a leg up
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
• Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself
• Give and take
• Give credit where credit is due
• Give him a right good Hemeling tonight (Hemeling Lager advertising slogan)
• Give him an inch and he'll take a mile
• Give him enough rope and he'll hang himself
• Give it a once over
• Give it a rest
• Give it a spin
• Give it a whirl
• Give it all you've got
• Give it plenty
• Give it some wellie
• Give it the green light
• Give it the gun
• Give it the hairy eyeball
• Give it the old college try
• Give it to me straight
• Give it your best shot
• Give me a break
• Give me a break! Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar! (Kit Kat chocolate advertising slogan)
• Give me a call
• Give me a sign
• Give me liberty or give me death
• Give me the works
• Give no quarter
• Give one's eye teeth for
• Give one's right arm for
• Give or take
• Give someone a bell
• Give someone a bloody nose
• Give someone a boost
• Give someone a good talking to
• Give someone a rocket
• Give someone a thick ear
• Give someone a wide berth
• Give someone an earful
• Give someone hell
• Give someone skin
• Give someone the boot
• Give someone the brush-off
• Give someone the mushroom treatment
• Give someone the slip
• Give someone the willys
• Give someone what for
• Give thanks
• Give the Devil his due
• Give the brush off
• Give the game away
• Give the lie to
• Give the show away
• Give the slip
• Give up
• Give up the blueline
• Give up the ghost
• Give us a call
• Give us a twirl (A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth)
• Give way
• Give your baby something you never had as a baby. A drier bottom (Pampers advertising slogan)
• Give your name to
• Give your word
• Go down for the third time
• God's gift to women
• Good Time, Great Taste, That's Why This is My Place (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Good time charlie
• Good time girl
• Got no time for
• Hair today gone tomorrow
• Hang time
• Happy Birthday To You
• Have you ever had a bad time in Levi's? (Levi's Jeans advertising slogan)
• Have you had your break today? (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• He will give the Devil his due
• He's fallen in the water (A catchphrase from The Goon Show)
• Heeere's Johnny (A catchphrase from Johnny Carson Show)
• Hello big boy, would you like a nice time?
• Here today gone tomorrow
• Hey there, Boo Boo! (A catchphrase from The Yogi Bear Show)
• High old time
• High season (the most popular time to visit a resort or attraction - when prices are highest)
• High time
• Holy mackerel! (A catchphrase from Kingfish In Amos 'N' Andy Show)
• How now brown cow?
• How very dare you (A catchphrase from The Catherine Tate Show)
• I Can See Clearly Now (Johnny Cash and Jimmy Cliff song and Nescafe advertising slogan)
• I didn't get where I am today (A catchphrase from Martin Clunes In Reggie Perrin)
• I don't give a flying f*ck
• I don't give a hoot
• I don't give a rats ass
• I don't have to show you any stinking badges (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)

• I give up
• I love the smell of napalm in the morning (Apocalypse Now)
• I used to be indecisive but now I'm not so sure
• I was very very drunk (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• I'll be leaving you now Sir
• I'll give it a miss
• I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here (Reality TV show)
• I'm a little bit wooooor, a little bit waaaaaaaaaayy, I'm a geezer! (A catchphrase from Chris The Crafty Cockney In The Fast Show)
• I'm smarter than the average bear! (A catchphrase from The Yogi Bear Show)
• Idea whose time has come
• If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
• If you've got the time, we've got the beer (Miller Beer advertising slogan)
• In good time
• In less than no time
• In no time flat
• In person
• In real time
• In record time
• In the flesh
• In the fullness of time
• In the mix
• In the nick of time
• In the right place at the right time
• In your birthday suit
• In your own time
• Is this a great time or what? (MCI Communications advertising slogan)
• It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play (Beatles song lyric)
• It's All Coming Back To Me Now (Meatloaf song)
• It's All Over Now (The Rolling Stone song)
• It's All Over Now Baby Blue (Bob Dylan song)
• It's Miller time! (Miller High Life advertising slogan)
• It's Now Or Never (Elvis Presley song)
• It's a Good Time for the Great Taste of mcdonald's (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• It's about time
• It's better to give than to receive
• It's high time
• It's now or never
• It's payback time
• It's the thought that counts
• It's time for U (UPN advertising slogan)
• It's time to call it a day
• It's time to fly (United Airlines advertising slogan)
• Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today
• Just a question of time
• Just in time
• Just slightly ahead of our time (Panasonic advertising slogan)
• Keep the show on the road
• Keep time with
• Kill time
• Kill time until time kills you
• Lapse of time
• Last time of asking
• Let's do the show right here
• Live for today for tomorrow never comes
• Live today. Tomorrow will cost more (Pan-Am World Airways advertising slogan)
• Living on borrowed time
• Local time
• Long time no see
• Look away now
• Lose track of time
• Love In The Time Of Cholera
• Make good time
• Make poverty history
• Make up for lost time
• Man on the spot
• Many happy returns (a toast given to someone on their birthday)
• March of time
• Mark time
• Matter of time
• McDonald's Today (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Miller Time (Nickname of Reggie Miller)
• Mind the time
• My friend, Joe Holmes, is now a horse (Arrow Shirts advertising slogan)
• Need You Now (Lady Antebellum song)
• Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow
• Never give a sucker an even break (A catchphrase from W C Fields)
• Never look a gift horse in the mouth
• Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today
• Not today
• Now There is only one Mars (Mars Chocolate advertising slogan)
• Now and again
• Now and then
• Now is the hour
• Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party
• Now is the winter of our discontent
• Now now
• Now then now then now then
• Now then, now then, now then (A catchphrase from Jimmy Savile)
• Now they whisper to her not about her (Cashmere Bouquet Soap advertising slogan)
• Now we're cooking
• Now you see it, now you don't
• Now you're playing with power! (Nintendo Entertainment System advertising slogan)
• Now you're talking
• Now, that's better (Sprint PCS advertising slogan)
• Oh Give Me A Home Where The Buffalo Roam (Brewster Higly song)
• Old before your time
• On show
• On the spot
• Once Upon A Time In America (Robert De Niro movie)
• Once upon a time
• One leg at a time (Dockers advertising slogan)
• One more time
• One step at a time
• One-man show
• Only a matter of time
• Only time will tell
• Out Of Time (Rolling Stones song)
• Party time
• Pass the time of day
• Peace in our time
• Peep show
• Play for time
• Present company excepted
• Prime time
• Procrastination is the thief of time
• Produce range
• Promise her anything, but give her Arpege (Arpege Perfume advertising slogan)
• Quality time
• Race against time
• Right here, right now
• Sack time
• Same Bat-time, same Bat-channel (A catchphrase from Batman TV show)
• Same time tomorrow? (Diet Pepsi advertising slogan)
• Say kids, what time is it? (A catchphrase from Howdy Doody Show)
• Screen time
• Secret Santa
• Serve your time
• Shoot me now
• Show a clean pair of heels
• Show a leg
• Show a little leg
• Show and tell
• Show down
• Show me the money (A catchphrase from Jerry Maguire)
• Show me the spot (Abraham Lincoln quotation)
• Show no quarter
• Show of hands
• Show off
• Show pony
• Show some appreciation
• Show the door
• Show the flag
• Show the ropes
• Show the white feather
• Show up
• Show your hand
• Show your true colours
• Show's over folks
• Since time immemorial
• So many books, so little time (Frank Zappa quotation)
• Some other time
• Spend more time with my family
• Squeaky bum time
• Steal the show
• Step up to the plate
• Stocking filler
• Stocking stuffer
• Stop the show
• Suit you, sir (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Summer time (the time adopted during the summer in advance of the standard time)
• Take one day at a time
• Take time out
• That was then, this is now
• The Amazing Race (US TV show)
• The Greatest Show on Earth (Barnum & Bailey Circus advertising slogan)
• The Last Picture Show (Jeff Bridges movie)
• The Last Time (Rolling Stones song)
• The Last Time I Saw Paris (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• The Show (Nickname of Harold Arceneaux)
• The Show Business Capital Of The World (Nickname of Hollywood California)
• The Smartest Dumbbell in the History of Show Business (Nickname of comedienne Gracie Allen)
• The Time (Dirty Bit) (The Black Eyed Peas song)
• The Truman Show (Jim Carey movie)
• The answer's yes. Now what's the question? (Unipart advertising slogan)
• The first time is never the best (Campari advertising slogan)
• The future is now
• The gift of tongues
• The gift that keeps on giving
• The land that time forgot
• The now generation
• The only 'sauce' I dare give Father (Burma Sauce advertising slogan)
• The only show in town
• The right place at the wrong time
• The sands of time
• The show must go on
• The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things
• The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, Carroll)
• There's No Business Like Show Business (Judy Garland song)
• There's a time and a place for everything
• There's no time like the present
• They think its all over: it is now
• Thin time of it
• Things We Said Today (The Beatles song)
• Third time lucky
• Third time's a charm
• Thirty for now
• This time it's personal (Jaws The Revenge advertising tagline)
• This time next year we will be millionaires (A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses)
• Till the end of time
• Time Out Of Mind (Bob Dylan song)
• Time after time
• Time and again
• Time and tide wait for no man
• Time and time again
• Time flies
• Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
• Time flies when you are having fun