Serious Phrases

Phrases

• All joking aside
• Appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober
• As silent as the grave
• As sober as a judge
• Beyond a joke
• Clean and sober
• Cold sober
• Company man (a worker especially loyal to the employer he works for)
• Computer nerd
• Dance on someone's grave
• Dig your own grave
• From the cradle to the grave
• Get down to brass tacks
• Get real
• Hold the field (- remain the most important)
• I don't believe it (A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew, One Foot In The Grave)
• In the grave
• It's no joke
• Mean business
• No joke
• No kidding
• No laughing matter
• No nonsense
• One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
• One foot in the grave
• Poker face
• Progress is our most important product (General Electric advertising slogan)
• Self important
• Serious as a heart attack
• Serious bit of kit
• Serious money
• Seriously ten (Network Ten Australia advertising slogan)
• Seriously though, he's doing a grand job (A catchphrase from David Frost)
• Someone walked on my grave
• Stone cold sober
• Turning in his grave
• Where the rubber meets the road (where the important facts or realities lie)
• You cannot be serious (A catchphrase from John McEnroe)