Rare Phrases

Phrases

• A once in a lifetime opportunity
• A victory for common sense
• As common as muck
• As rare as rocking horse droppings
• As scarce as hen's teeth
• Bloody typical
• Chinaman's chance
• Common ground
• Common or garden
• Common sense
• Cruel and unusual punishment
• Dying breed
• Dying out
• Few and far between
• Hardly ever
• Hidden gem
• In short supply
• Least common denominator
• Lightning never strikes twice in the same place
• Make yourself scarce
• Murderers' Row (A baseball expression denoting a group of talented individuals or valuable assets)
• Never in a month of Sundays
• Nothing in common
• Odd customer
• Odd fellow
• Odd fish
• Odd one out
• Once in a blue moon
• Once in a lifetime
• One in a million
• Rare bird
• She's So Unusual (Cyndi Lauper album)
• That Obscure Object Of Desire (Luis Bunuel movie)
• The Gem (Nickname of Erie Pennsylvania)
• The Gem State (Nickname of the US state of Idaho)
• The Odd Couple (Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau movie)
• The common good
• The common touch
• The road less travelled
• Thin on the ground
• Unique in All the World (Ford Thunderbird advertising slogan)
• You, of all people (exclamation when meeting someone unexpectedly)