Significant Phrases

Phrases

• A cup of coffee (A baseball expression denoting a break from major league baseball)
• Abbreviated piece of nothing
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Business end
• Cast a long shadow
• Chopped liver
• Cut no ice
• Drop in the ocean
• Ferret face (Nickname of Major Frank Burns (Larry Linville))
• High ticket item (a consumer good that would constitute a major expense when bought)
• History in the making
• Hold the field (- remain the most important)
• Hot Lips Houlihan (Nickname of Major Margaret Houlihan (Loretta Swit))
• I'm convinced the Goodyear Grand Prix-S is a major contribution to road safety (Goodyear Tyres advertising slogan)
• Little fish in a big pond (someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers)
• Major league (A baseball expression meaning at the top rank)
• Major player
• Next to nothing
• Not to be sneezed at
• Not worth a hill of beans
• On the map
• Progress is our most important product (General Electric advertising slogan)
• Self important
• The Galloping Major (Nickname of Ferenc Puskas)
• Where the rubber meets the road (where the important facts or realities lie)