Request Phrases

Phrases

• A Prayer For Owen Meany (John Irving book)
• A big ask
• A crocodile sandwich please - and make it snappy
• Answer to a maiden's prayer
• Appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober
• Appeal to Caesar
• Appeal to your better judgment
• Apple pie order
• Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer
• Ask after
• Ask and you shall receive
• Ask around
• Ask for the moon
• Ask me another
• Ask no odds
• Ask no questions and hear no lies
• Ask not for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee
• Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country
• Ask out
• Ask the Man who Owns One (Packard advertising slogan)
• Bang out of order
• Beg a favour
• Beg off
• Beg pardon?
• Beg the question
• Beg to differ
• Beg, borrow or steal
• Built to order
• Come to the edge
• Congratulations are in order
• Cop a plea
• Curb appeal
• Don't ask me
• Don't be vague, ask for Haig (Haig Scotch advertising slogan)
• Don't get vexed, ask Teletext (Teletext advertising slogan)
• Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars (line from the movie Now, Voyager)
• Dryest gin in town. Ask any Martini (Seagram's Gin advertising slogan)
• Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (David Reuben book)
• Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (Woody Allen movie)
• Funny you should ask
• Gagging order
• Hate watch (viewing a television programme in order to mock it)
• Have you any last requests? (humorous question asked as though a person was about to be killed)
• I Say A Little Prayer (Aretha Franklin song)
• I ask you
• I beg your pardon

• If you ask me
• If you have to ask the price you can't afford it (Rolls Royce slogan)
• In short order
• In the order of
• Invite someone over
• Kerb appeal
• Kerb appeal (The degree of attractiveness of a car at the kerbside)
• Law and order
• Like a Prayer (Madonna song)
• Mail order bride
• On a wing and a prayer
• On request
• On the wings of a prayer
• Order about
• Order in the court
• Order of magnitude
• Order order
• Order up
• Out of order
• Oxo gives a meal man appeal (Oxo gravy advertising slogan)
• Pecking order
• Play softball (A baseball expression meaning to ask easy questions)
• Plea bargain
• Put your house in order
• Saviour sibling (a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease)
• Shirtsleeve order
• Shoot first, ask questions later
• Side order
• Sit up and beg
• Smokers are requested to use Swan Vestas (Swan Vesta matches advertising slogan)
• Supply and demand
• Take me out to the ball game
• Tall order
• Tastes so good cats ask for it by name (Meow Mix Cat food advertising slogan)
• The Conservative Party at prayer (The Church of England)
• The Wailing Wall (site of prayer in Jerusalem)
• The honour of your presence is requested
• The order of the boot
• The order of the day
• The valley of the shadow of death (line from the Lord's Prayer)
• There's not a soul out there, no one to hear my prayer (ABBA lyric)
• Universal appeal
• Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty? (ABBA lyric)
• Why ask why? Try Bud Dry (Budweiser Earl advertising slogan)
• Wish for the moon
• Write off for
• You gotta ask yourself, do I feel lucky, well do ya punk? (Dirty Harry)