Rule Phrases

Phrases

• 3 6 3 Rule
• Above the law
• Against the law
• 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)
• Bend the rules
• Born To Run (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Britannia rules the waves
• Britannia waives the rules
• Brush with the law
• Bun run
• Business is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
• Chatham House rules
• Click it or ticket (United States seat belt law advertising slogan)
• Close enough for government work
• Cold Mountain (Jude Law / Renee Zellweger / Nicole Kidman movie)
• Command and control
• Control freak
• Cost control
• Crowd control
• Cruise control
• Cut and run
• Do as I say not as I do
• Don't try to run before you can walk
• Don't walk on the grass
• Don't you just love being in control? (British Gas advertising slogan)
• Dry run
• Eat and run
• Empire State Building
• Empire State of Mind (Jay-Z with Alicia Keys song)
• Fall foul of the law
• Go to law
• Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)
• Golden rule
• Government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem (Political slogan)
• Had a good run
• Hard cases make bad law
• His word is law
• Hit and run
• Hold with the hare and run with the hounds
• Home rule
• Home run
• Honesty is the best policy
• House rules
• I arrest you in the name of the law
• I before E except after C
• I fought the law and the law won
• I'm from the government, and I'm here to help
• In the eyes of the law
• In the long run
• In the short run
• It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in
• Keep off the grass
• Law abiding
• Law and order
• Law unto oneself
• Lay the law down
• Let your imagination run riot
• Lose control
• Majority rules
• Mob rule
• No smoking
• On the run
• One law for the rich and another for the poor
• Open door policy
• Open government
• Out of control
• Outside the law
• Play by the rules
• Portion control
• Possession is nine tenths of the law
• Primal therapist (psychotherapist who uses Primal Scream method of treatment)
• Quality control
• Radio control
• Regime change
• Revolving door policy
• Rubber bullet (a bullet made of rubber or plastic and used for riot control)
• Rule Britannia
• Rule of thumb
• Rule out
• Rule the roost
• Rule with a rod of iron

• Rule with an iron fist
• Rules and regulations
• Rules are made to be broken
• 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
• Scorched Earth Policy
• See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
• See what we mean (Canon advertising slogan)
• Spiral out of control
• Stickler for the rules
• Still waters run deep
• Sue grabbit and run
• Take someone to law
• Take the law into your own hands
• Take the money and run
• The Brittas Empire (BBC comedy television series)
• The Chrysanthemum Throne (the traditional term for the reign of the Emperor of Japan)
• The Cider House Rules (Michael Caine movie)
• The Empire State (Nickname of the US state of New York)
• The Empire State (Nickname of the US state of South Georgia)
• The Empire State Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Empire Strikes Back (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• The Evil Empire
• The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner (9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan)
• The course of true love never did run smooth
• The empire on which the sun never sets
• The exception which proves the rule
• The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
• The law is an ass
• The law of averages
• The law of diminishing returns
• The law of the jungle
• The law of the land
• The letter of the law
• The long arm of the law
• The rise and fall of the Roman Empire
• The sun never sets on the British Empire
• There ought to be a law
• There's an exception to every rule
• There's method in my madness
• There's no law against it
• This one will run and run
• Though this be madness, yet there is method in it
• Three blind mice, see how they run (line from nursery rhyme)
• Up and down like the Ottoman Empire (line from Monty Python's Life Of Brian)
• Whoever you vote for the government gets in (Anarchist political slogan)
• Work to rule
• World government
• World ruler
• You can run but you can't hide
• Your fragrance Your rules (Hugo Boss Deep Red advertising slogan)

Related

• 3 6 3 Rule
• Golden rule
• Home rule
• Mob rule
• Rule Britannia
• Rule of thumb
• Rule out
• Rule the roost
• Rule with a rod of iron
• Rule with an iron fist
• The exception which proves the rule
• There's an exception to every rule
• Work to rule