Sire Phrases

Phrases

• Absolute power corrupts absolutely (quotation by Lord Acton)
• After the Lord Mayor's parade
• American Express? That'll do nicely sir (American Express advertising slogan)
• An ill-favoured thing sir, but mine own
• Arise Sir Lancelot
• As drunk as a lord
• Aye aye sir
• Baby father
• Be It Ever So Humble There's No Place Like Home (John Howard Payne and Sir Henry Bishop song)
• Can I do you now, sir? (A catchphrase from It's That Man Again (ITMA))
• Drink, feck, arse (A catchphrase from Father Ted)
• Father Knows Best (American TV Show)
• Father Of The Bride (Steve Martin movie)
• Father Ted (BBC comedy television series)
• Father of The Atomic Bomb (Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer)
• Flash Harry (Nickname of Sir Malcolm Sargent)
• Founding father
• Full fathom five thy father lies (from The Tempest by Shakespeare)
• His father's son
• Honour thy father and mother
• How long, O Lord, how long?
• How's your father
• I'll be leaving you now Sir
• Just a glint in his father's eye
• Like father, like son
• Live like a lord
• Lord Clark of Civilisation (Nickname of Kenneth Clark)
• Lord Fred (Cockney rhyming slang for bed)
• Lord Haw-Haw (Nickname of William Joyce)

• Lord Of The Flies (William Golding book)
• Lord Of The Rings (J R R Tolkien book)
• Lord it over
• Lord love a duck
• My Sweet Lord (George Harrison song)
• My precious (The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers)
• Our father who art in heaven
• Praise the lord and pass the ammunition
• Santa's Little Helpers (allusion to the elves that help Father Christmas)
• Sir Charles (Nickname of Charles Barkley)
• Something for the weekend sir?
• Suit you, sir (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• The Fifth Beatle (Nickname of Sir George Martin)
• The Hound Of The Baskervilles (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle book)
• The Lord of the Idiots (Nickname of George Costanza (Jason Alexander))
• The Lord of the Rings (J R R Tolkien story and Peter Jackson movie)
• The Sash My Father Wore (Irish traditional song)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (Pseudonym of Sir Percy Blakeney)
• The Wizard of Dribble (Nickname of Sir Stanley Matthews)
• The boy is father to the man
• The child is father of the man (from a poem by Wordsworth)
• The favoured of the Lord
• The only 'sauce' I dare give Father (Burma Sauce advertising slogan)
• The sash my father wore
• The valley of the shadow of death (line from Psalm 23)
• The wish is father to the thought
• This is Not Your Father's Oldsmobile (Oldsmobile advertising slogan)
• To Sir With Love (Sidney Poitier)
• Try everything once, except incest and folk dancing (Sir Thomas Beecham quotation)
• Yes Sir, I Can Boogie (Baccara song)