Several Phrases

Phrases

• A few bricks short of a full load
• A few cards short of a full deck
• A few roos loose in the top paddock
• Accept that some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue
• All that and then some
• And then some
• Are you ready for some football?
• As many chins as a Chinese phone book
• Been around the block a few times
• Blow some my way (Chesterfield Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Buy some time
• Catch some rays
• Catch some zzzs
• Coat of many colours
• Cowards may die many times before their death
• Crack some suds
• Cut some slack
• Few and far between
• Finger in many pies
• For A Few Dollars More (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Get some shuteye
• Give it some wellie
• Had a few
• Have many irons in the fire
• High occupancy vehicle lane (a traffic lane reserved for vehicles carrying several people)
• How many bars do you have? (AT&T Wireless advertising slogan)
• I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti (The Silence of the Lambs)
• In as many words
• Knock back a few
• Know how many beans make five
• Light a fire under some
• Lucy ... You got some 'splaining to do! (A catchphrase from I Love Lucy)
• Make some noise
• Man of few words
• Man of many parts
• Many a mickle makes a muckle
• Many a true word is spoken in jest
• Many are called but few are chosen
• Many hands make light work
• Many happy returns (IBM Electric Typewriters advertising slogan)
• Many happy returns (a toast given to someone on their birthday)
• Many moons ago
• Not in so many words
• Not many of them to the pound
• One Too Many Mornings (Bob Dylan song)
• One sprint many solutions (Sprint advertising slogan)

• One two many and you might turn Bertie (Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts advertising slogan)
• Pour Some Sugar On Me (Def Leppard song)
• Pour some sugar on me
• Put some muscle into it
• Put some slap on
• Say a few words
• Show some appreciation
• So many books, so little time (Frank Zappa quotation)
• Some Guys Have All The Luck (Robert Palmer song)
• Some Like It Hot (Jack Lemmon / Tony Curtis / Marilyn Monroe movie)
• Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (BBC comedy television series)
• Some Nights (fun song)
• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em
• Some assembly required
• Some day my prince will come
• Some day my prints will come
• Some kind of a nut
• Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them
• Some of our best men are women (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Some other time
• Some you win: some you lose
• Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan
• Take a few deep breaths
• The Man of Many Moods (Nickname of actor Charles Laughton)
• The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts all on a summer's day (line from nursery rhyme)
• The few, the proud, the Marines (United States Marine Corps advertising slogan)
• The house of many doors
• The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things
• The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, Carroll)
• There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's Mastercard (MasterCard advertising slogan)
• There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle
• There's many a good tune played on an old piano
• There's many a slip twixt cup and lip
• Throw enough dirt and some will stick
• To name but a few
• Too many chiefs and not enough indians
• Too many cooks spoil the broth
• Too many irons in the fire
• Unlucky for some (Bingo call for number thirteen)
• Want some seafood Mama (Fats Waller song)
• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• We few, we happy few, we band of brothers (from Henry V by Shakespeare)
• Well, nobody's perfect (line from the movie Some Like It Hot)
• Win some, lose some
• Without us, some guys will starve (Carl's Jr. advertising slogan)
• You can't handle the truth (A Few Good Men)
• You win some: you lose some