Scene Phrases

Phrases

• A Room With A View (E M Forster book)
• A View To A Kill (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
• A class act
• A funny thing happened on the way to the theatre
• A welcome sight
• Act of God
• Act out
• Act the fool
• Act the giddy goat
• Act the part
• Act up
• Act white
• Act your age
• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players
• Balancing act
• Behind the scenes
• Bird's eye view
• Blot on the landscape
• Blow off the stage
• Caught in the act
• Change of scene (A new location and way of thinking)
• Chew up the scenery
• Children should be seen and not heard
• Class act
• Clean up your act
• Colour one's view
• Come into view
• Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
• Dim view
• Distance lends enchantment to the view
• Do a disappearing act
• Don't put your daughter on the stage Mrs Worthington
• Double act
• Exit stage left
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• Fringe theatre
• Get in on the act
• Get your act together
• Hard act to follow
• Hasta la vista baby (A catchphrase from Arnold Schwarzeneggar)
• Hidden in plain sight
• High visibility jacket (reflective coat worn to be easily seen)
• High wire act
• Human Rights Act
• In on the act
• In plain sight
• International incident
• It had to be seen to be believed

• Know by sight
• Landscape painting (a form of painting in which the natural world is the subject)
• Line of sight
• Lose sight of
• Love at first sight
• Love scene
• Make a scene (causing a disturbance)
• Make the scene
• Nowhere to be seen
• Out of sight, out of mind
• Phone it in (perform an act in an uncommitted disinterested manner)
• Play hardball (A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive)
• Point of view
• Political landscape
• Put on an act
• Random act of kindness
• Read the riot act
• Red and green should never be seen
• Second sight
• See that girl, watch that scene (ABBA lyric)
• Seen better days
• Seen one, seen them all
• Set the stage
• Shoot on sight
• Sight for Soaring Eyes (Trans World Airways advertising slogan)
• Sight for sore eyes
• Sight unseen
• Sister Act (Whoopie Goldberg movie)
• Sorry sight
• Stage door Johnny
• Star of stage and screen
• Steal the scene
• Survey the scene
• Take centre stage
• That's the second biggest ... I've ever seen! (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• The act you've known for all these years (Beatles song lyric)
• The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner (9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan)
• The stage is set
• The view from the top
• Think global, act local
• Think globally, act locally (Friends of the Earth advertising slogan)
• Triple play (A baseball expression denoting the act of making three outs during the same play)
• View from a Bridge (play by Arthur Miller)
• We have seen better days
• World view
• You ain't seen nothing yet
• You can't eat scenery
• You look as though you've seen the ghost
• You've seen the rest, now try the best