Priest Phrases

Phrases

• Abandon hope all ye who enter here (warning from Dante's Divine Comedy)
• Baby father
• Body mass index
• Cardinal sin
• Catholic taste
• Divine intervention
• Divine providence
• Divine retribution
• Divine right of kings
• Drink, feck, arse (A catchphrase from Father Ted)
• Fat berg (a solid mass of grease in a sewer)
• Father Knows Best (American TV Show)
• Father Of The Bride (Steve Martin movie)

• Father Ted (BBC comedy television series)
• Father of The Atomic Bomb (Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer)
• Founding father
• Full fathom five thy father lies (from The Tempest by Shakespeare)
• His father's son
• Honour thy father and mother
• How's your father
• Is the Pope Catholic?
• Judas priest
• Just a glint in his father's eye
• Lapsed Catholic
• Like father, like son
• Man of the cloth

• Mass hysteria
• Number 10 Downing Street (address of the British Prime Minister)
• Our father who art in heaven
• Paddy's Wigwam (Nickname of The Roman Catholic Cathedral Liverpool)
• Santa's Little Helpers (allusion to the elves that help Father Christmas)
• The Custodian (Nickname of Brian Cardinal)
• The Divine Miss M.(Nickname of Bette Midler)
• The Divine Sarah (Nickname of Sarah Bernhardt)
• The Minister of Defense (Nickname of Reggie White)
• The Prime Minister of Mirth (Nickname of George Robey)
• The Sash My Father Wore (Irish traditional song)
• The boy is father to the man
• The child is father of the man (from a poem by Wordsworth)

• The only 'sauce' I dare give Father (Burma Sauce advertising slogan)
• The sash my father wore
• The wish is father to the thought
• This is Not Your Father's Oldsmobile (Oldsmobile advertising slogan)
• To err is human; to forgive, divine (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• We found the weapons of mass destruction
• Weapons of mass destruction
• Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?
• Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
• Yes Minister (BBC comedy television series)