Public Phrases - Phrases With Public In Them

Public Phrases

Phrases with public in them

Phrases about public

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)

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