Phrase thesaurus
Public Phrases
168 phrases and expressions related to "public".
Phrases
- A golden key can open any door
- A victory for common sense
- A, B, C, D, E, Your public library has arranged these in ways that make you cry, giggle, laugh, love, hate, wonder, ponder and understand (American Library Association advertising slogan)
- Affluent society
- Air your dirty linen in public
- All the lonely people, where do they all come from? (Beatles song lyric)
- All together now (invitation to join in communal singing)
- An open and shut case (a straightforward legal case)
- As common as muck
- Banana republic
- Be open with
- Before you make up your mind, open it (Irish Independent advertising slogan)
- Better gas mileage. A Civic responsibility (Honda advertising slogan)
- Cafe society
- Common ground
- Common or garden
- Common sense
- Computers help people help people (IBM advertising slogan)
- Connecting people (Nokia advertising slogan)
- Don't you people have homes to go to?
- Factory outlet (a shop where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
- Factory shop (a retail outlet where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
- Far better for being near to you (The Chesham Building Society advertising slogan)
- Forward with the People (Daily Mirror advertising slogan)
- Games people play
- Genius bonus (a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed people)
- Go public
- Hell is other people (Jean-Paul Sartre quotation)
- High occupancy vehicle lane (a traffic lane reserved for vehicles carrying several people)
- His life's an open book
- Hold a mirror up to society
- How To Win Friends And Influence People (Dale Carnegie book)
- How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? (Beatles song lyric)
- I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
- I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me! (A catchphrase from Stuart Smiley In Saturday Night Live)
- If enough people would stop smoking and start drinking, we could get out of ashtrays and into vermouth (Cinzano advertising slogan)
- If you keep late hours for Society's sake, Bromo-Seltzer will cure that headache (Bromo-Seltzer advertising slogan)
- In the public eye
- Investments with Abbey endings (Abbey National Building Society advertising slogan)
- It Takes People Like You To Make People Like Me (Buck Owens song)
- It doesn't take a minute to bag it and bin it (UK public advertisement advertising slogan)
- It's all about you (People Telecom advertising slogan)
- Joe Public
- Join the Pepsi People (Pepsi advertising slogan)
- Keep a weather eye open
- Keep an eye open
- Keep an open mind
- Keep open house
- Keep your options open
- Klunk! Klick, every trip (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
- Least common denominator
- Leave out door open
- Leave the door open for
- Leave your options open
- Leave yourself open
- My door is always open
- Not a lot of people know that (A catchphrase from Michael Caine)
- Nothing in common
- Of the people, for the people, by the people
- Open All Hours (Ronnie Barker television comedy series)
- Open Pandora's box
- Open book
- Open door policy
- Open fire
- Open for business
- Open government
- Open house
- Open marriage
- Open mouth: closed mind
- Open road
- Open season
- Open sesame
- Open source
- Open source software
- Open the bay doors HAL (A catchphrase from 2001, A Space Odyssey)
- Open the box (A catchphrase from Take Your Pick)
- Open the floodgates
- Open the kimono
- Open to doubt
- Open to offers
- Open verdict
- Open warfare (engaged in active fighting)
- Open wide
- Open your account
- Open your big mouth
- Open your eyes
- Open your heart
- Out in the open
- Pay your debt to society
- People carrier (a car with several passenger seats)
- People in here are trying to sleep
- People mover (a car with several passenger seats)
- People of colour
- People person
- People power
- People smuggler (someone involved in smuggling immigrants between countries, often illegally)
- People watching
- People who like people like Dial (Dial Soap advertising slogan)
- People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
- People's republic (a communist state)
- Places to go, people to see, things to do
- Pleasing people the world over (Holiday Inn advertising slogan)
- Polite society
- Poster boy
- Power to the people
- Public Enemy Number One (Nickname of John Dillinger)
- Public enemy
- Public sector
- Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People song)
- Push at an open door
- Real food for real people (The beef industry advertising slogan)
- Sleep with one eye open
- Take the money, open the box
- The Heart Of Europe (Nickname of Prague Czech Republic)
- The People's Champ (Nickname of Freddie Mitchell)
- The People's Cherce (Nickname of Dixie Walker)
- The People's Princess (Nickname of Diana Princess of Wales)
- The People's Republic Of Berkeley (Nickname of Berkeley California)
- The People's Republic Of Cambridge (Nickname of Cambridge Massachusetts)
- The People's Republic of South Yorkshire (Nickname of Sheffield England)
- The Rome Of The North (Nickname of Prague Czech Republic)
- The Socialist Republic Of South Yorkshire (Nickname of Sheffield England)
- The Steel Heart Of The Republic (Nickname of Ostrava Czech Republic)
- The common good
- The common touch
- The little people
- The people's choice (a person or thing chosen by public acclamation)
- The public domain
- The public purse
- Think once, think twice, think bike (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
- To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
- To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all (Oscar Wilde quotation)
- Top people take the Times (The Times advertising slogan)
- Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking
- Wash your dirty linen in public
- We make things that bring people closer (Western Electrics advertising slogan)
- We the people
- We're with the Woolwich (Woolwich Building Society advertising slogan)
- When E F Hutton talks, people listen (EF Hutton advertising slogan)
- Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies (Beatles song lyric)
- Wherever particular people congregate (Pall Mall Cigarettes advertising slogan)
- Who are the people in your neighborhood?
- Wide open spaces
- Win friends and influence people
- With open arms
- With your eyes open
- Y.M.C.A. (Village People song)
- You meet the nicest people on a Honda (Honda advertising slogan)
- You're Wendy's kind of people (Wendy Burgers advertising slogan)
- You, of all people (exclamation when meeting someone unexpectedly)
Related
- A, B, C, D, E, Your public library has arranged these in ways that make you cry, giggle, laugh, love, hate, wonder, ponder and understand (American Library Association advertising slogan)
- Air your dirty linen in public
- Factory outlet (a shop where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
- Factory shop (a retail outlet where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
- Go public
- In the public eye
- It doesn't take a minute to bag it and bin it (UK public advertisement advertising slogan)
- Joe Public
- Klunk! Klick, every trip (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
- Public Enemy Number One (Nickname of John Dillinger)
- Public enemy
- Public sector
- The people's choice (a person or thing chosen by public acclamation)
- The public domain
- The public purse
- Think once, think twice, think bike (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
- Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking
- Wash your dirty linen in public