Phrase thesaurus

Relative Phrases

180 phrases and expressions related to "relative".

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

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)