Relative Phrases

Phrases

• A lot of fuss about nothing
• About face
• About time too
• About to find pups
• About turn
• Agony aunt
• Agony uncle
• All About Eve (Bette Davis movie)
• All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (the opening line of Anna Karenina)
• Am I my brother's keeper?
• An everyday story of country folk (A catchphrase from The Archers)
• Arse about face
• As queer as folk
• Aunt Millie
• Aunt Sally
• Bandy about
• Bang on about
• Be like Dad, keep mum (WWII slogan)
• Beanpole family
• Beat about the bush
• Big Brother
• Big Brother is watching you
• Big Daddy (Nickname of American football Dan Wilkinson)
• Big Daddy (Nickname of Idi Amin)
• Black sheep of the family
• Blood is thicker than water
• Blood will out
• Bob's your uncle
• Boss about
• Bricks and mortar (Cockney rhyming slang for daughter)
• Brother Jonathan
• Bugger about
• Bum about
• Come about
• Country cousin
• Cousin on
• Cry uncle
• Cut up about
• Dad's Army (BBC comedy television series)
• Daddy's little girl
• Did I do that? (A catchphrase from Family Matters)
• Disneyland daddy
• Don't go on about it
• Don't panic (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• Don't put your daughter on the stage Mrs Worthington
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Dutch uncle
• Dysfunctional family
• Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (Woody Allen movie)
• Extra, extra, read all about it
• Fall about laughing
• Fall about your ears
• Family fortunes
• Family man
• Family matters
• Family ties
• Family tree
• Family values
• Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night (All About Eve)
• First World problem (a relatively trivial problem only affecting the affluent)
• Flesh and blood
• Gad about
• Get your family into Shape, without them even noticing (St. Ivel Yogurt advertising slogan)
• Go about your business
• Go on about
• Go to see a man about a dog
• Goodnight children everywhere (A catchphrase from Uncle Mac)
• Hang about
• Harp on about
• Have a thing about
• Have you any last requests? (humorous question asked as though a person was about to be killed)
• Have your wits about you
• He ain't heavy, he's my brother
• Head of the family
• Hedged about
• How about that?
• I Think I Love You (The Partridge Family song)
• I don't know much about art but I know what I like
• I may not know much about art, but I know what I like
• I'll Be Missing You (Puff Daddy with Faith Evans and 112 song)
• I'll be a monkey's uncle
• If you can keep your head when all about you (from a poem by Kipling)
• In out, in out, shake it all about
• In the family way
• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on (Robert Frost quotation)
• It's a family affair
• It's about time
• It's all about you (People Telecom advertising slogan)
• It's complicated (Facebook relationship status)
• Keep it in the family

• Keep on about
• Keep your wits about you
• Kith and kin
• Knock about
• Knock about comedy
• Know what you are about
• Lark about
• Loaf about
• Love-hate relationship
• Make a song and dance about
• Make no bones about
• Man about town
• Messing about in boats
• Milling about
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Muck about
• My arse (A catchphrase from Royle Family)
• My giddy aunt
• Nash Daddy (Nickname of Steve Nash)
• Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about (The Beatles song lyric)
• Nothing to worry your pretty little head about
• Nothing to write home about
• Now they whisper to her not about her (Cashmere Bouquet Soap advertising slogan)
• O Brother Where Art Thou (A catchphrase from Ed Murrow and George Clooney movie title)
• Once removed
• Order about
• Our survey says (A catchphrase from Family Fortunes)
• Out and about
• Piss about
• Ponce about
• Potter about
• Queer as folk
• Read all about it
• Runs in the family
• Ryan's Daughter (David Lean movie)
• Sanka, everything you love about coffee (Sanka advertising slogan)
• Saviour sibling (a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease)
• Say uncle
• Scouting about
• Selling the family silver
• Sibling rivalry
• Something About You (Four Tops song)
• Something to crow about
• Sorry about that, Chief. (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• Soul brother
• Spend more time with my family
• Stop faffing about
• Stop messing about (A catchphrase from Kenneth Williams)
• Sugar daddy
• Talks about talks
• Tell me about it
• Tell them about the honey, mummy (Sugar Puffs advertising slogan)
• That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine (Gene Autry song)
• That just about takes the biscuit
• That's about it
• That's about the size of it
• The Grocer's Daughter (Nickname of Margaret Thatcher)
• The Royle Family (BBC comedy television series)
• The bank of mum and dad
• The family jewels
• The family silver
• The family that prays together stays together
• There's Something About Mary (Cameron Diaz movie)
• There's a lot of it about (A catchphrase from Spike Milligan)
• There's nowt so queer as folk
• There's something about her
• There's something funny about it
• There's too much arson about here
• Throw your weight about
• Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars (Buick advertising slogan)
• Too Busy Thinking About My Baby (Marvin Gaye song)
• Try everything once, except incest and folk dancing (Sir Thomas Beecham quotation)
• Uncle Cliffy (Nickname of Cliff Robinson)
• Uncle Dick (Cockney rhyming slang for sick)
• Uncle Joe (Nickname of Joseph Stalin)
• Uncle Ned (Cockney rhyming slang for bed)
• Uncle Tom Cobley and all
• Up and about
• Watch out there's a Humphrey about (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• We're Just One Big Happy Family (Richard Hawley song)
• We're just one big happy family
• What did you do in the war Daddy?
• What's It All About, Alfie? (Michael Caine movie)
• What's all the fuss about?
• Who's your daddy?
• You and yours
• You are now free to move about the country (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
• You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family
• You can't keep quiet about a Wispa (Cadbury's Wispa advertising slogan)
• You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)