Profession Phrases

Phrases

• A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play (Mars Chocolate advertising slogan)
• A lot on your plate (having many responsibilities)
• A true professional
• A work in progress
• Ads work harder in the new Granada (Granada advertising slogan)
• All in a day's work
• All my own work
• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
• Alpha Mom (an ambitious mother who aims to excel at work while raising children)
• As patient as Job
• Balance of trade
• Blow job
• Boob job
• Botched job
• Bury yourself in your work
• Cap and trade (A policy tool aimed at protecting the environment)
• Career limiting move
• Career path
• Close enough for government work
• Daily grind (the daily routine of a dull or boring job)
• Dirty work at the crossroads
• Doing a sterling job
• Don't give up the day job
• Donkey work
• Everybody out (A catchphrase from The Rag Trade)
• Fair Trade
• Fall down on the job
• For those who like the trade rough (Travis aftershave advertising slogan)
• Free trade
• Get behind in your work
• Go to work on an egg (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Hand job
• Hard work never did anyone any harm
• Hard work never killed anyone
• Hatchet job
• Have your work cut out for you
• Hazards of the job
• Hold down a job
• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work (Thomas Edison quotation)
• I'm only doing my job
• If a job is worth doing it is worth doing well
• If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers
• Imagination at Work (General Electric advertising slogan)
• Inside job
• It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it (A catchphrase from Nick Stone In Tightrope)
• Join the professionals (British Army advertising slogan)
• Just the job
• Keep up the good work
• Letters after your name
• Lie down on the job
• Life is our life's Work (Pfizer advertising slogan)
• Line of work
• Maid of all work
• Make a good job of it
• Make light work of
• Make short work of
• Make the best of a bad job
• Many hands make light work
• Nasty piece of work
• Never do a stroke of work

• Nice work if you can get it
• No job too small
• Office work
• On the job
• On the job training
• Only fools and horses work
• Pressure of work
• Put-up job
• Quality is job one (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Rag trade
• Real piece of work
• Rough trade
• Rush job
• Seriously though, he's doing a grand job (A catchphrase from David Frost)
• Snow job
• Spade work
• Stock in trade
• The Devil finds work for idle hands to do
• The Internet at Work (UUNET advertising slogan)
• The Italian Job (Michael Caine movie)
• The Rag Trade (BBC comedy television series)
• The oldest profession
• The patience of Job
• The right man for the job
• The right tool for the job
• The right tools for the job
• The toughest job you'll ever love (United States Peace Corps advertising slogan)
• This Woman's Work (Kate Bush song)
• To make that tough job easier - you deserve M&M candy (M&Ms advertising slogan)
• Tools of the trade
• Trade down
• Tricks of the trade
• We Can Work It Out (Beatles song)
• We are professional grade (GMC Truck advertising slogan)
• We make things that make communications work (Lucent Technologies advertising slogan)
• What a piece of work is man
• Whistle while you work
• Why do only fools and horses work?
• Woman's work is never done
• Work both sides of the street
• Work expands so as to fill the time available
• Work hard. Fly right (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• Work it
• Work itself up into a lather
• Work life balance
• Work like a Trojan
• Work like a beaver
• Work like a dog
• Work of art
• Work one's fingers to the bone
• Work the phone
• Work the rabbit's foot on
• Work to rule
• Work wonders
• Work your ass off
• Work your butt off
• Work your ticket
• Work yourself into the ground
• You don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps
• You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! (line from the Michael Caine movie The Italian Job)