Sixty Phrases

Phrases

• 167 days of foggy, foggy dew can't claim all the credit for beautiful English complexions (Elizabeth Arden advertising slogan)
• 69 position
• A bad quarter of an hour
• A buck fifty
• At sixty miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock (Rolls Royce advertising slogan)
• At the eleventh hour
• Back number
• Beer and sandwiches at Number 10
• Big Six (Nickname of baseball player Christy Mathewson)
• Brighton line (Bingo call for number fifty nine)
• Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! (line from the movie 25th Hour)
• Clickety click (Bingo call for number sixty six)
• Cometh the hour, cometh the man
• Complex number (a number containing real and imaginary parts)
• Cushy number
• Deep six
• Do a number on
• Doctor's Orders (Bingo call for number nine)
• Droopy drawers (Bingo call for number forty four)
• Eighty six
• Employee Number 8 (Nickname of Antoine Walker)
• Fifty Shades of Grey (E L James book)
• Five, six, pick up sticks (line from nursery rhyme)
• Gentlemen we can rebuild him. We have the technology. (A catchphrase from Six Million Dollar Man)
• Got your number
• Hancock's Half Hour (BBC comedy radio and television series)
• Happy hour
• Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan song)
• Hit for six
• I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
• I've got your number
• If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself (Albert Einstein quotation)
• Into the valley of death rode the six hundred
• Joe Six Pack
• Key of the door (Bingo call for number twenty one)
• Knock for six
• Late hour
• Legs eleven (Bingo call for number eleven)
• Little black number
• Look after number one
• Look out for number one
• Love Potion Number Nine (Leiber and Stoller song)
• Lucky number seven
• Man of the hour
• My finest hour
• Name, rank, and serial number
• Now is the hour
• Number 10 Downing Street (address of the British Prime Minister)
• Number Six (Pseudonym of Peter Smith The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan))
• Number crunching
• Number one
• Number one concubine (name given to the partner of Bertrand Russell)
• Number one son
• Number two
• Number unobtainable
• On the hour
• Public Enemy Number One (Nickname of John Dillinger)
• Six and two threes
• Six degrees of separation
• Six feet under
• Six figures
• Six for gold (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Six of one and half a dozen of the other
• Six of the best
• Six pack
• Six ways to Sunday
• Six, two and even
• Sixth sense
• Snakes alive (Bingo call for number fifty five)
• So easy to use, no wonder it's number one (AOL advertising slogan)
• Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry / Beatles song)
• Sweet sixteen and never been kissed
• The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The darkest hour is just before the dawn
• The magic number
• The sixty-four thousand dollar question
• The witching hour
• Times without number
• Top of the hour
• Top of the shop (Bingo call for number ninety)
• Two fat ladies (Bingo call for number eighty eight)
• Two four six eight who do we appreciate (cheerleader chant)
• Two little ducks (Bingo call for number twenty two)
• Unlucky for some (Bingo call for number thirteen)
• Was she worth it (Bingo call for number fifty six)
• We're number two. We try harder (Avis Rent-a-Car advertising slogan)
• When I'm Sixty-Four (The Beatles song)
• Zero hour