Saw Phrases

Phrases

• As far as the eye can see
• As mad as a bear with a sore head
• Be the change that you wish to see in the world (Mahatma Gandhi quotation)
• Can't see beyond the end of your nose
• Can't see the wood for the trees
• Carry on like a pork chop
• Children should be seen and not heard
• Chop and change
• Chop chop
• Chop shop
• Christmas is a time to believe in things you can't see (3M Company Scotch Tape advertising slogan)
• Clean cut boy
• Come out of the woodwork
• Come up and see me sometime (A catchphrase from Mae West)
• Cost cutting
• Crawl out of the woodwork
• Cut a cheque
• Cut a dash
• Cut a deal
• Cut a hog
• Cut a long story short
• Cut a rug
• Cut a wide swathe (make a pompous display)
• Cut above the rest
• Cut and dried
• Cut and paste
• Cut and run
• Cut and shut
• Cut and thrust
• Cut bait
• Cut corners
• Cut costs
• Cut from the same cloth
• Cut it fine
• Cut it out
• Cut loose
• Cut no ice
• Cut off at the knees
• Cut off without a penny
• Cut out for
• Cut out the dead wood
• Cut prices to the bone
• Cut some slack
• Cut someone dead
• Cut someone down in their prime
• Cut someone down to size
• Cut the Gordian knot
• Cut the cackle
• Cut the cheese
• Cut the cord
• Cut the crap
• Cut the ground from under your feet
• Cut the mustard
• Cut the umbilical cord
• Cut throat competition
• Cut through the red tape
• Cut to the chase
• Cut to the quick
• Cut up about
• Cut up rough
• Cut your coat to suit your cloth
• Cut your losses
• Cut your own throat
• Cut your teeth
• Cutting remark
• Director's cut
• Distance vision (the ability to see distant objects)
• Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
• Don't shoot until you can see the whites of their eyes
• Final cut
• First cut
• Fish or cut bait
• Get the chop
• Go to see a man about a dog
• Half cut
• Have your work cut out for you
• Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil
• High visibility jacket (reflective coat worn to be easily seen)
• Hit the woodwork
• I Can See Clearly Now (Johnny Cash and Jimmy Cliff song and Nescafe advertising slogan)
• I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine (Bob Dylan song)
• I Saw Her Standing There (Beatles song)
• I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (Spike Jones song)
• I believe in angels, something good in everything I see (ABBA lyric)
• I call them like I see them
• I came, I saw, I conquered
• I can see you standing over a hot stove, but I can't see the stove (Groucho Marx line)
• I could see you a mile off
• I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
• I see nothing - nothing! (A catchphrase from Hogan's Heroes)
• I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• I'll see you all right
• Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
• Is this a dagger which I see before me?

• It had to be seen to be believed
• Jigsaw John (Nickname of John St. John (Jack Warden))
• Lamb chop
• Let the dog see the rabbit
• Let's see the colour of your money
• Like a chicken with its head cut off
• Long time no see
• Made especially to prevent sore throats (Craven 'A' Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Make the cut
• Measure twice, cut once
• Miss the cut
• Monkey see: monkey do
• Must see TV (NBC, advertising slogan)
• My stomach thinks my throat's been cut
• Nice to see you, to see you nice (A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth)
• Not cut out for it
• Nothing more to see
• Now you see it, now you don't
• Nowhere to be seen
• On the cutting edge
• Places to go, people to see, things to do
• Pork Chop (Nickname of Floyd Womack)
• Prime cut
• Red and green should never be seen
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes
• Sawing logs
• Say what you see (A catchphrase from Catchphrase)
• See America at see level (Amtrak advertising slogan)
• See Naples and die
• See You Late Alligator (Bill Haley song)
• See a penny and pick it up
• See a pin and pick it up
• See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day
• See eye to eye
• See here
• See how it runs! (Cerebos salt advertising slogan)
• See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
• See it for what it is
• See it out
• See no evil, hear no evil speak no evil
• See red
• See something through
• See that girl, watch that scene (ABBA lyric)
• See the USA in a Chevrolet (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
• See the back of someone
• See the bigger picture
• See the elephant
• See the face you love light up with Terry's All Gold (Terrys Chocolates advertising slogan)
• See things in a different light
• See what brown can do for you (UPS advertising slogan)
• See what happens
• See what the future has in store (Future Shop advertising slogan)
• See what we mean (Canon advertising slogan)
• See which way the cat jumps
• See you anon
• See you in court
• See you later alligator
• See you way clear
• See yourself out
• Seen better days
• Seen one, seen them all
• Sight for sore eyes
• Sore loser
• Spit and sawdust
• Sticks out like a sore thumb
• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (from a poem by Auden)
• Suck it and see
• That's the second biggest ... I've ever seen! (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• The Final Cut (Pink Floyd song)
• The First Cut Is The Deepest (Rod Stewart song)
• The Last Time I Saw Paris (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• The cut of your jib
• The little dog laughed to see such fun
• The right tool for the job
• The unkindest cut of all
• There are none so blind as those that will not see
• There's none so blind as those who will not see
• Three blind mice, see how they run (line from nursery rhyme)
• To cut a long story short
• Tool around
• Veni vidi vici
• We have seen better days
• We love to see you smile (Mcdonalds advertising slogan)
• We're off to see the wizard
• What the butler saw
• What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over
• What you see is what you get
• Whatever it is I think I see becomes a Tootsie Roll to me! (Tootsie Rolls advertising slogan)
• Why don't you come up sometime and see me? (She Done Him Wrong)
• You ain't seen nothing yet
• You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife
• You look as though you've seen the ghost
• You should see what's on HGTV (HGTV advertising slogan)
• You won't see me for dust
• You've seen the rest, now try the best