Race Phrases

Phrases

• A Day At The Races (Marx Brothers movie)
• A move in the right direction
• A nation of shopkeepers
• A touch of the tarbrush
• Act white
• After The Gold Rush (Neil Young song)
• All the lonely people, where do they all come from? (Beatles song lyric)
• Angry white male
• At breakneck speed
• At lightning speed
• Athlete's foot
• Back the field
• Beat the rush
• Beauty contest (a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy)
• Beauty parade (a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy)
• Beltway bandit
• Black flagged
• Blistering speed
• Blown off course
• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• Bold move
• Born To Run (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Breakneck speed
• British racing green
• Built for comfort not speed
• Built for speed
• Bum's rush
• Bun run
• Business is beautiful (Sprint advertising slogan)
• Business is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
• Bust a move (dance in a stylish way)
• But of course
• Career limiting move
• Chart a course
• Chase it up
• Chase the dragon
• Chase your own tail
• Computers help people help people (IBM advertising slogan)
• Connecting people (Nokia advertising slogan)
• Correspondence course
• Course you can, Malcolm (Vick's Sinex Nasal Spray advertising slogan)
• Crash and dash
• Crash course
• Cut a dash
• Cut and run
• Cut throat competition
• Cut to the chase
• Dash to pieces
• Dead heat
• Did the earth move for you
• Don't just stand there, do something (A catchphrase from Wacky Races)
• Don't try to run before you can walk
• Don't you people have homes to go to?
• Dry run
• Each way bet
• Eat and run
• Egg and spoon race
• Eye up the competition
• Face the competition
• Faith will move mountains
• First past the post
• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
• 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)
• Gentlemen, start your engines
• Get a move on
• Get up to speed
• Go and chase yourself
• God speed
• God's speed
• Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)
• Had a good run
• Hell is other people (Jean-Paul Sartre quotation)
• High occupancy vehicle lane (a traffic lane reserved for vehicles carrying several people)
• High speed gas (Gas Council advertising slogan)
• Hit and run
• Hold with the hare and run with the hounds
• Home run
• How To Win Friends And Influence People (Dale Carnegie book)
• How do you spell soap? Why P-E-A-R-S, of course (Pears' Soap advertising slogan)
• How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? (Beatles song lyric)
• How does the wireless industry make you feel? (Sprint PCS advertising slogan)
• Hurry along
• Hurry hard
• Hurry off with
• Hurry on down to Hardee's (Rolaids advertising slogan)
• Hurry up
• Hurry up and wait
• I Like To Move It (Reel 2 Reel song)
• 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)
• In due course
• In the long run
• In the short run
• It Takes People Like You To Make People Like Me (Buck Owens song)
• It's all about you (People Telecom advertising slogan)
• Join the Pepsi People (Pepsi advertising slogan)
• Last one there is a rotten egg
• Let nature take its course
• Let your imagination run riot
• Make a move on
• Make your move
• Matter of course
• Melting pot
• Mixed marriage
• More haste, less speed
• Move It On Over (Hank Williams song)
• Move On Up a Little Higher (Mahalia Jackson song)
• Move heaven and earth
• Move in the best circles
• Move over
• Move right along
• Move with the times
• Moving at the speed of business (UPS advertising slogan)
• Neck and neck
• No contest
• No rush
• Not a lot of people know that (A catchphrase from Michael Caine)
• Now, that's better (Sprint PCS advertising slogan)
• Of the people, for the people, by the people
• Off course
• Oh, the humanity
• On a collision course
• On the flat
• On the move
• On the run
• On your mark, get set, go
• One sprint many solutions (Sprint advertising slogan)
• Par for the course
• 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)
• Pipped at the post
• Piss like a race horse
• Pissing contest
• Places to go, people to see, things to do
• Play the race card
• Pleasing people the world over (Holiday Inn advertising slogan)
• Point to point
• Power to the people
• Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People song)
• Race against the clock
• Race against time
• Race for the taste, the honey sweet taste!, the honey-nutty taste of Honey Nut Cheerios (Cheerios Cereals advertising slogan)
• Race proven performance (Kumho Tires advertising slogan)
• Race to the bottom
• Rat race
• Ready set go
• Ready steady go
• Ready, get set, go
• Real food for real people (The beef industry advertising slogan)
• Romp home
• Rubber cheque (a cheque that is returned (bounced) due to insufficient funds)
• Rubber is racing
• Run For Your Life (The Beatles song)
• Run Forrest, Run! (line from the movie Forrest Gump)
• Run a fever
• Run a tight ship
• Run along
• Run amuck
• Run for cover
• Run for the border (Taco advertising slogan)
• Run for the hills
• Run for your life
• Run for your money
• Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes
• Run its course
• Run like the wind
• Run of the Millsap (Nickname of Paul Millsap)
• Run of the mill
• Run off at the mouth
• Run off your feet
• Run out of gas
• Run out of steam
• Run out of town on a rail
• Run rabbit, run rabbit, run run run
• Run rings around
• Run the gauntlet
• Run the plates
• Run the risk
• Run to fat
• Run to ground
• Run to seed
• Run toward the sound of gunfire
• Run with the ball
• Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
• Run yourself ragged
• Rush job
• Rush of blood
• Rush the growler
• Rush to judgement
• Sack race
• See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
• Smooth move
• Speed dating
• Speed demon
• Speed freak
• Speed it up
• Speed kills
• Speed merchant
• Stay on course
• Stay the course
• Stiff competition
• Still waters run deep
• Suck it up (accept a bad situation and move on)
• Sue grabbit and run
• Sugar rush
• Take the chequered flag
• Take the money and run
• The Amazing Race (US TV show)
• The Birth of a Nation (D W Griffith / Lillian Gish movie)
• The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin movie)
• The Master Race
• 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 course of true love never did run smooth
• The finishing line
• The human race
• The little people
• The need for speed
• The people's choice (a person or thing chosen by public acclamation)
• The point of contact (Sprint advertising slogan)
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• The station of the nation (Radio Caroline advertising slogan)
• The thrill of the chase
• There goes the neighbourhood
• This one will run and run
• Three blind mice, see how they run (line from nursery rhyme)
• 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)
• Too good to hurry mints (Murray Mints advertising slogan)
• Top breeders recommend it (Pedigree Chum Dog food advertising slogan)
• Top people take the Times (The Times advertising slogan)
• Under starter's orders
• Up to speed
• Victory won't wait for the nation that's late (Big Ben Clocks advertising slogan)
• Warp speed (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• We make things that bring people closer (Western Electrics advertising slogan)
• We really move our tail for you (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• We the people
• 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?
• Wild goose chase
• Win by a head
• Win by a neck
• Win by a nose
• Win friends and influence people
• Y.M.C.A. (Village People song)
• Yes you can (Sprint advertising slogan)
• You Can't Hurry Love (The Supremes song)
• You are in a Beauty Contest Every Day of your Life (Camay Soap advertising slogan)
• You are now free to move about the country (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
• You can run but you can't hide
• 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

• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• Egg and spoon race
• Piss like a race horse
• Play the race card
• Race against the clock
• Race against time
• Race for the taste, the honey sweet taste!, the honey-nutty taste of Honey Nut Cheerios (Cheerios Cereals advertising slogan)
• Race proven performance (Kumho Tires advertising slogan)
• Race to the bottom
• Rat race
• Sack race
• The Amazing Race (US TV show)
• The Master Race
• The human race
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes