Principal Phrases

Phrases

• A World first
• A boy's best friend is his mother (Psycho)
• A cup of coffee (A baseball expression denoting a break from major league baseball)
• A dog is a man's best friend
• A girl's best friend
• A head for business and a body for sin
• A product of the master mind (Senior Service cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Above my head
• Acid head
• Ain't my first rodeo (said by someone who has experience of a situation)
• Air head
• All the best
• All's for the best in the best of all possible worlds (Voltaire quotation - in Candide)
• America's best record (Puritan Records advertising slogan)
• As mad as a bear with a sore head
• At first blush
• At first hand
• Attack is the best form of defence
• Bang your head against a brick wall
• Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head (The Beatles song lyric)
• Be it on your head
• Be the best (British Army advertising slogan)
• Be the first to know (CNN advertising slogan)
• Best bib and tucker
• Best friend
• Best friends forever
• Best in class
• Best in show
• Best of all
• Best of breed
• Best of friends
• Best practice
• Best stop now
• Big white chief
• Bite someone's head off
• Bone head
• Breast is best (slogan of breastfeeding campaign)
• Bring out the Hellmann's, and bring out the best (Hellmann's Mayonnaise advertising slogan)
• Bring out your best (Bud Light advertising slogan)
• Bring to a head
• Bring your A game (perform to your best ability)
• Bury your head in the sand
• Butt head
• Calendar year (twelve months beginning from the first of January)
• Can't Get You Out of My Head (Kylie Minogue song)
• Can't make head or tail of it
• Cardinal sin
• Cast the first stone
• Chief cook and bottle washer
• Chief of staff
• Coffee at its best (Nescafe Gold Blend advertising slogan)
• Come to a head
• Couldn't make head or tail of it
• Diamonds are a girl's best friend
• Dief the Chief (Nickname of John Diefenbaker)
• Do your head in
• Do your level best
• Doing what we do best (American Airlines advertising slogan)
• Don't mess with my head
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Drink Camp - its the best! (Camp Coffee advertising slogan)
• East, west, home's best
• Even your best friend won't tell you (Lifebuoy Soap advertising slogan)
• Even your best friends won't tell you (Listerine Mouthwash advertising slogan)
• Experience is the best teacher
• Eyes in the back of your head
• Father Knows Best (American TV Show)
• Ferret face (Nickname of Major Frank Burns (Larry Linville))
• First Among Equals (Jeffrey Archer book)
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• First World (the indutrialised affluent and wealthy nations)
• First World problem (a relatively trivial problem only affecting the affluent)
• First among equals (the most senior person in a group of equal rank)
• First amongst equals
• First and foremost
• First blood
• First came to fame
• First catch your hare
• First come first served
• First comes love, then comes marriage
• First contact
• First cut
• First flush
• First footing (making a round of visits at New Year)
• First impressions last
• First light
• First past the post
• First rate
• First relationships last (First National Bank of Chicago advertising slogan)
• First responder (the member of the emergency services to arrive at a disaster)
• First strike
• First thing
• First things first
• First time caller
• First to market
• First up
• First with the Hits (Mercury Records advertising slogan)
• First, do no harm
• Fish always rot from the head downwards
• For the best
• Ford is the Best in Texas (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Fountain head
• Full head of hair
• Funny in the head
• Get it into your head
• Get to first base
• Get to first base with
• Get your head around something
• Get your head down
• Get your head together
• Get your retaliation in first
• Give it your best shot
• Go and boil your head
• Go boil your head
• Go to your head
• Good head on his shoulders
• Got your head screwed on
• Hail to the chief
• Hang your head
• Hanging over your head
• Have your best interests at heart
• Have your head examined
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• Head and shoulders above
• Head banger
• Head case
• Head count
• Head doctor
• Head first
• Head for figures
• Head for heights
• Head for the Border (Taco Bell Restaurants advertising slogan)
• Head for the hills
• Head for the mountains (Busch Beer advertising slogan)
• Head games
• Head honcho
• Head hunting
• Head in the clouds
• Head in the sand
• Head like a sieve
• Head of hair
• Head of steam
• Head of the family
• Head of the household
• Head off
• Head on
• Head on collision
• Head over heels in love
• Head start
• Head them off at the pass
• Head to head
• Head to toe
• Head up
• Head wind
• Heap coals of fire on someone's head
• High ticket item (a consumer good that would constitute a major expense when bought)
• Hit the nail on the head
• Hold a gun to his head
• Hold the field (- remain the most important)
• Hold up your head
• Hold your head up high
• Honesty is the best policy
• Hope for the best
• Hot Lips Houlihan (Nickname of Major Margaret Houlihan (Loretta Swit))
• I am the master of my fate (from a poem by Henley)
• I could do that standing on my head
• I never knew you had dandruff (Head and Shoulders shampoo advertising slogan)
• I'm convinced the Goodyear Grand Prix-S is a major contribution to road safety (Goodyear Tyres advertising slogan)
• If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again
• If you ain't first, you're last
• If you can keep your head when all about you (from a poem by Kipling)
• If you change your mind, I'm the first in line (ABBA lyric)
• In over your head
• Iowa's Leading Edge (Nickname of Council Bluffs Iowa)
• It was the best of times: it was the worst of times (the opening line of A Tale Of Two Cities)
• It's all done in the best possible taste (A catchphrase from Kenny Everett)
• Jack is as good as his master
• Jack of all trades but master of none
• Keep a civil tongue in your head
• Keep a cool head
• Keep your head
• Keep your head above water
• Keep your head down
• Kelloggs, because your best days start with breakfast (Kelloggs advertising slogan)
• Keynote speaker
• Knock it on the head
• Knowing me, knowing you, it's the best I can do (ABBA lyric)
• Knuckle head
• La Belle Epoque (the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World War)
• Ladies first
• Last in first out
• Laugh your head off
• Laughter is the best medicine
• Leading authority
• Leading edge
• Leading fashion hub
• Leading indicator
• Leading light
• Leading question
• Leadoff hitter (A baseball expression denoting the player who bats first)
• Level head
• Like a chicken with its head cut off
• Living well is the best revenge
• Loaf of bread (Cockney rhyming slang for head)
• Look your best while you wear our least (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• Lose your head
• Love at first sight
• Main chance
• Main event
• Main squeeze
• Major league (A baseball expression meaning at the top rank)
• Major player
• Make first base
• Make the best of a bad job
• Make your head spin
• Making the sky the best place on Earth (Air France advertising slogan)
• Man's best friend
• Master Blaster (Nickname of Sachin Tendulkar - Indian cricketer)
• Master of disguise
• Me first
• Meat head
• Might and main
• Mother knows best
• Move in the best circles
• My head is spinning
• Need your head examined
• Next to myself, I like BVD best (BVD Underwear advertising slogan)
• Not best pleased
• Not right in the head
• Nothing but the best
• Nothing to worry your pretty little head about
• Of the first water
• Off the top of my head
• Off with his head
• Off your head
• Old head on young shoulders
• Old master
• On me head son (Invitation to cross a football so that another player can head it)
• On your best behaviour
• On your own head be it
• One's level best
• Only the best for the Captain's table (Birdseye advertising slogan)
• Opening night (the first night of a theatrical performance)
• Out of your head
• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read (Groucho Marx line)
• Over your head
• Pecker head
• Petrol head
• Pinch, punch, first of the month
• Pointy head
• Pot head
• Price on his head
• Probably the best lager in the World (Carlsberg advertising slogan)
• Progress is our most important product (General Electric advertising slogan)
• Propeller head
• Puddin' Head (Nickname of Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan))
• Puddin' Head (Nickname of Willie Jones)
• Pull your head in
• Puppet master
• Put a gun to your head
• Put your best foot forward
• Put your head above the parapet
• Put your head into the lion's mouth
• Put your head on the block
• Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (Burt Bacharach song)
• Revenge is a dish best served cold
• Safety first
• Second best
• Second thoughts are best
• Seesaw Margery Daw Johnny shall have a new master (line from nursery rhyme)
• Self important
• Shoot first, ask questions later
• Simply The Best (Tina Turner song)
• Simply the best there is (Britvic advertising slogan)
• Six of the best
• Sleepy head
• Snap someone's head off
• Soft in the head
• Some of our best men are women (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Sorry about that, Chief. (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• Stand it on its head
• Strike out swinging (A baseball expression meaning to fail while giving it your best effort)
• Strong in the arm and thick in the head
• Sunday best
• Surely the best tactic (Tic Tac Candy advertising slogan)
• Take it into your head
• Talk over your head
• Talking head
• The Best Bad Girl on TV (Nickname of Cloris Leachman)
• The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas (Burt Reynolds / Dolly Parton movie)
• The Best Second Banana in the Business (Nickname of Art Carney)
• The Best Years Of Our Lives (William Wyler movie)
• The Best never rest (Ford Trucks advertising slogan)
• The Chief (Nickname of Robert Parish)
• The Custodian (Nickname of Brian Cardinal)
• The Devil has all the best tunes
• The Drywall Master of the Universe (Nickname of Dan Conner (John Goodman))
• The First Cut Is The Deepest (Rod Stewart song)
• The First Garden City Of The World (Nickname of Letchworth England)
• The First Lady of Television (Nickname of Faye Emerson)
• The First State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
• The Galloping Major (Nickname of Ferenc Puskas)
• The Girl Of My Best Friend (Elvis Presley song)
• The Head Ball Coach (Nickname of Steve Spurrier)
• The Little Master (Nickname of Sachin Tendulkar - Indian cricketer)
• The Master (Nickname of Noel Coward)
• The Master Race
• The Master of the Atrocious Pun (Nickname of Clifton Fadiman)
• The best a man can get (Gillette advertising slogan)
• The best defence is a good offence
• The best is the enemy of the good
• The best is yet to come
• The best laid plans
• The best laid schemes of mice and men
• The best of British
• The best of British luck
• The best of both worlds
• The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup (Folgers Coffee advertising slogan)
• The best seat in the house (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• The best that money can buy
• The best thing since sliced bread
• The best things in life are free
• The best to you each morning (Kelloggs advertising slogan)
• The best tyres in the world have Goodyear written all over them (Goodyear Tyres advertising slogan)
• The best way of expressing your intelligence (Zenith Data Systems advertising slogan)
• The best way to get music out of your system (Philips advertising slogan)
• The blind leading the blind
• The brightest and the best
• The first network for men (Spike TV advertising slogan)
• The first time is never the best (Campari advertising slogan)
• The good is the enemy of the best
• The main drag
• The main event
• The mainspring in a Bulova is made to last 256 years or 146 leather straps - whichever comes first (Bulova Watches advertising slogan)
• The master of my fate
• The original and the best
• The power to be your best (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Thousands of possibilities, get yours (Best Buy advertising slogan)
• Throw a beanball (A baseball expression meaning to attack an opponent by aiming at their head)
• To cast the first stone
• Today is the first day of the rest of your life
• Towel head (derogatory slang term referring to an Arab man)
• Turn on the fun (Best Buy advertising slogan)
• Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
• Upon your head be it
• We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just one thing. The World's Best Tobacco (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Wet the baby's head
• What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
• When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
• Where the rubber meets the road (where the important facts or realities lie)
• Which came first the chicken or the egg?
• Who blinked first?
• Who's got the best darn burgers in the whole wide world? (Burger King and I advertising slogan)
• Win by a head
• With the best will in the world
• Women and children first
• World's first
• Yes, master (A catchphrase from I Dream Of Jeannie)
• Yorkshire born in Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head
• You don't get a second chance at a first impression
• You heard it here first
• You only get one chance to make a first impression
• You would forget your head if it weren't screwed on
• You're As Good As The Best And Better Than The Rest (Tina Turner song)
• You've seen the rest, now try the best
• Your best bet
• Your best bet for a fuller flavour (Carling Black Label advertising slogan)