Sentence Phrases

Phrases

• 50 Words for Snow (Kate Bush song)
• A Daniel come to judgement
• A picture paints a thousand words
• A word to the wise
• Actions speak louder than words
• Alphabet soup (a jumble of words or letters, often in reference to organsiations known by their initials, like CIA or BBC)
• An Englishman's word is his bond
• Any word?
• As good as your word
• At a loss for words
• Bandy words with
• Click bait (an eye ctaching word or image on a website)
• Coin a phrase
• Complex sentence (a sentence containing subordinate clauses)
• Costa Del Crime
• Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky book)
• Crime Dog (Nickname of baseball player Fred McGriff)
• Crime against nature
• Crime doesn't pay
• Crime of passion
• Deeds not words
• Detained at Her Majesty's pleasure
• Don't mince words
• Eat your words
• Empty words
• Famous last words
• Fine words butter no parsnips
• Four letter word
• From the word go
• Get a word in edgeways
• Get out of jail free
• Get out of jail free card (a means of avoiding justice - from the eponymous card in the Monopoly boardgame)
• Give your word
• Go back on one's word (Retract a previous promise)
• Go directly to jail, do not pass go
• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good (Wall Street)
• Hang by the neck until dead
• Hang on every word
• Hard words
• Have a word with yourself
• Have words with
• He understands every word I say to him
• Here's a word from our sponsor
• His word is law
• I'll not hear a word against him
• If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
• In a word
• In as many words
• In other words
• In the beginning was the word
• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on (Robert Frost quotation)
• In words of one syllable
• Jail bait
• Jail bird
• Jonnies out of jail
• Judgement At Nuremburg (Burt Lancaster / Spencer Tracy movie)
• Judgement call
• Judgement day
• Just say the word
• Keep your word
• Kind words
• Last word
• Let the punishment fit the crime
• Lost for words
• Man of few words
• Man of his word
• Many a true word is spoken in jest
• Mark my words
• Marriage isn't a word it's a sentence
• Mince your words
• Mum's the word
• Mumm's the word (Mumm's Champagne advertising slogan)
• My word is my bond
• My word!
• Nary, a word
• Nose for crime
• Not in so many words
• On death row
• Partners in crime
• Pass sentence
• Put in a good word for
• Put the hard word on
• Put words into someone's mouth
• Rush to judgement
• Say a few words
• Say the magic word and win $100 dollars (A catchphrase from Groucho Marx In You Bet Your Life)
• Seal your fate
• Serve your time
• Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (Elton John song)
• Spread the word
• Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
• Take a bite out of crime
• Take a bite out of crime! (National Crime Prevention Council advertising slogan)
• Take someone's word for it
• Take the words out of my mouth
• The F word
• The Flying Squad (Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard)
• The French Have A Word For It (Josh Lanyon book)
• The French have a word for it
• The Napoleon of Crime (Nickname of Professor Moriarty)
• The Shadow knows (A catchphrase from the crime fighting vigilante)
• The judgement of Solomon
• The jury is out
• The perfect crime
• The phrase that pays
• The word on the street
• To have words with
• Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime (Tony Blair political slogan)
• Trial and error
• Trial and tribulation
• Trial by television
• Turn of phrase
• Twelve good men and true
• War of words
• Warm words
• Way with words
• Weasel words
• Well-chosen words
• What's the good word?
• Whisper words of wisdom, let it be (The Beatles song lyric)
• Word association football
• Word for word
• Word has it
• Word in your ear
• Word in your shell-like
• Word of honour
• Word of mouth
• Word to the wise
• Words Of Love (Buddy Holly song)
• Words of wisdom
• You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth, It Must Have Been Whilst You Were Kissing Me (Meatloaf song)