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302 phrases and expressions related to "small".

Phrases

  • A Short History Of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson book)
  • A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian (Marina Lewycka book)
  • A bear of very little brain
  • A few bricks short of a full load
  • A few cards short of a full deck
  • A little bird told me
  • A little dab'll do ya (Brylcreem advertising slogan)
  • A little help from above
  • A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
  • A little learning is a dangerous thing (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
  • A little of what you fancy does you good
  • A slip of a thing
  • A still small voice
  • Action Man (children's male doll)
  • All children, except one, grow up (the opening line of Peter Pan)
  • All creatures great and small
  • All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt (Charles M. Schulz quotation)
  • Art is long and life is short
  • As small as the hairs on a gnat's bollock
  • As sure as God made little green apples
  • As thick as two short planks
  • At the last minute
  • Atom Heart Mother (Pink Floyd album)
  • Atom smasher
  • Attention to detail
  • Baby grand
  • Bama Lama Bama Loo (Little Richard song)
  • Big fish eat little fish
  • Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
  • Big fleas have little fleas
  • Bits and bobs
  • Bits and pieces
  • Bring up short
  • Caught by the short and curlies
  • Caught short
  • Chicken feed
  • Children and fools tell the truth
  • Children should be seen and not heard
  • Children's shoes have far to go (Start-Rite Shoes advertising slogan)
  • Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
  • Come up short
  • Computer says no (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
  • Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Queen song)
  • Cut a long story short
  • Daddy's little girl
  • Day late and a dollar short
  • Day surgery (minor surgery that does not require the patient to stay in hospital overnight)
  • Dirty little secret
  • Dog and pony show
  • Don't close your eyes for a minute
  • Don't sweat the small stuff
  • Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
  • Dream a little dream of you
  • Drop in the bucket
  • Drop in the ocean
  • Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (Police song)
  • Every little helps (Tesco advertising slogan)
  • Everything you want from a store and a little bit more (Safeway Supermarkets advertising slogan)
  • Father of The Atomic Bomb (Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer)
  • First World problem (a relatively trivial problem only affecting the affluent)
  • Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Get a little extra help (Halifax advertising slogan)
  • Glow Little Glow-worm (children's nursery rhyme)
  • Gnat's bollock (slang term for a very small unit of measurement)
  • Good Golly Miss Molly (Little Richard song)
  • Good things come in small packages
  • Good things come in small parcels
  • Goodnight children everywhere (A catchphrase from Uncle Mac)
  • Grapes, like children, need love and affection (Almaden advertising slogan)
  • Greasy spoon (a small cheap cafe selling fried food)
  • Half pint
  • Hang on a minute
  • Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Judy Garland song)
  • Hold on a minute
  • I Say A Little Prayer (Aretha Franklin song)
  • I am the only gay in the village (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
  • I spy with my little eye
  • I want that one (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
  • I'll Get By With Little Help From My Friends (The Beatles song)
  • I'm a laydee (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
  • I'm a little bit wooooor, a little bit waaaaaaaaaayy, I'm a geezer! (A catchphrase from Chris The Crafty Cockney In The Fast Show)
  • I've got a little list
  • In short order
  • In short supply
  • In the short run
  • Into every life a little rain must fall
  • It doesn't take a minute to bag it and bin it (UK public advertisement advertising slogan)
  • Itsy Bitsy spider climbing up the spout, down came the rain and washed the spider out (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Itsy bitsy
  • Jagged Little Pill (Alanis Morissette album)
  • Just a glint in his father's eye
  • Keep A Knockin' (Little Richard song)
  • Lady Madonna, children at your feet (Beatles song lyric)
  • Last minute
  • Laugh a minute
  • Let's rock (A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With Children)
  • Life's little luxuries
  • Life's too short
  • Little Bo peep has lost her sheep (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Little Boxes (Pete Seeger song)
  • Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Little Brown Jug (Glenn Miller tune)
  • Little Chocolate (Nickname of George Dixon)
  • Little Cuba (Nickname of Miami Florida)
  • Little Deuce Coupe (Beach Boys song)
  • Little General (Nickname of Avery Johnson)
  • Little Hands of Stone (Nickname of Michael Carbajal)
  • Little Hitler
  • Little Jack Horner sat in a corner (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Little London (Nickname of Gothenburg Sweden)
  • Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Little New York (Nickname of Carmelo Anthony)
  • Little Poison (Nickname of Lloyd Waner)
  • Little Red Corvette (Prince song)
  • Little Red Rooster (Rolling Stones song)
  • Little Rhody (Nickname of the US state of Rhode Island)
  • Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Little Sure Shot (Nickname of Annie Oakley)
  • Little Tommy Tucker sings for his supper (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Little White Bull (Tommy Steele song)
  • Little Women (Louisa May Alcott book)
  • Little black book
  • Little black dress
  • Little black number
  • Little blighter
  • Little boxes made of ticky tacky
  • Little by little
  • Little devil
  • Little fish in a big pond (someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers)
  • Little gentleman in the velvet coat
  • Little green men
  • Little pitchers have big ears
  • Little strokes fell great oaks
  • Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape
  • Little things please little minds
  • Little tin god
  • Little treasure
  • Little white lie
  • Long Tall Sally (Little Richard song)
  • Make little of
  • Make short work of
  • Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Mickey Mouse organisation
  • Midnight's Children
  • Mighty oaks from little acorns grow
  • Mother's little helper
  • Move On Up a Little Higher (Mahalia Jackson song)
  • Nasty, brutish and short
  • New York minute
  • Next to nothing
  • No big deal
  • No job too small
  • No room to breathe
  • No room to swing a cat
  • Nothing to worry your pretty little head about
  • O ye, of little faith
  • Oh little town of Bethlehem
  • One brick short of a load
  • One minute to midnight
  • One of life's little ironies
  • One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind (Neil Armstrong quotation)
  • Our children are not our children
  • Pint sized
  • Pizza! Pizza! (Little Caesars restaurants advertising slogan)
  • Pocket rocket
  • Poison dwarf
  • Poor little rich girl
  • Precious little
  • Pull someone up short
  • Quite the little gentleman
  • Ready Teddy (Little Richard song)
  • Red Dwarf (BBC comedy television series)
  • Restricted growth
  • Santa's Little Helpers (allusion to the elves that help Father Christmas)
  • Seeing small business differently (SBC Communications advertising slogan)
  • Shit (or short) end of the stick
  • Short Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Short Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Short Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Short and curlies
  • Short and sweet
  • Short arms, long pockets
  • Short but sweet
  • Short change
  • Short end of the stick
  • Short fuse
  • Short list
  • Short sharp shock
  • Short shrift
  • Short sighted
  • Short stuff
  • Show a little leg
  • Small beer
  • Small fortune
  • Small is beautiful
  • Small minded
  • Small potatoes
  • Small wonder
  • Small wonder (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
  • Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast (A catchphrase from Red Dwarf)
  • So many books, so little time (Frank Zappa quotation)
  • Sold short
  • Solutions for a small planet (IBM advertising slogan)
  • Sticks and snails and puppy dog's tails that's what little boys are made of (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Suffer the little children
  • Sugar and spice and all things nice that's what little girls are made of (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry / Beatles song)
  • Take a long walk off a short pier
  • Take a long walk off a short plank
  • The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas (Burt Reynolds / Dolly Parton movie)
  • The Devil is in the detail
  • The Famous Five (characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book)
  • The Girl Can't Help It (Little Richard song and movie)
  • The God Of Small Things (Arundhati Roy book)
  • The Little Big Man (Nickname of Sharmba Mitchell)
  • The Little Buttercup (Nickname of Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason))
  • The Little Corporal (Nickname of Napoleon Bonaparte)
  • The Little Drummer Boy (Harry Simeone Chorale song)
  • The Little Engine (Nickname of T.J.Ford)
  • The Little Lady (Nickname of Jo Anne Santini (Michele Scarabelli))
  • The Little Master (Nickname of Sachin Tendulkar - Indian cricketer)
  • The Little Mermaid (Disney cartoon movie)
  • The Little Paris (Nickname of Bucharest Romania)
  • The Little Queen of the Soap Operas (Nickname of actress Anne Francis)
  • The Little Sparrow (Nickname of Edith Piaf)
  • The Little Witch (Nickname of Juan Sebastian Veron)
  • The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer
  • The little boys' room
  • The little dog laughed to see such fun
  • The little engine that could
  • The little people
  • The long and short of it
  • The next small thing
  • The patter of tiny feet
  • The short end of the stick
  • The small screen
  • The still small voice of God
  • The wheels on the bus go round and round (title of children's song)
  • The winner takes it all, the loser standing small (ABBA lyric)
  • There's a little McDonald's in Everyone (McDonald's advertising slogan)
  • There's one born every minute
  • These little things are sent to try us
  • Think small (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
  • This little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none (line from nursery rhyme)
  • This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed at home (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Throw another shrimp on the barbie (Australian Tourist Commission advertising slogan)
  • Thumb your nose
  • Thumbnail sketch
  • Time out for tiny little tea leaves in Tetley Tea (Tetley Tea advertising slogan)
  • Tiptoe through the tulips (1920s Broadway song and Tiny Tim hit)
  • To cut a long story short
  • To make a long story short
  • Too little, too late
  • Trap and ball (children's ball game)
  • Try A Little Tenderness (Otis Redding song)
  • Tutti Frutti (Little Richard song)
  • Twas the night before Christmas - the children were dreaming of a Ford in their future - smart, swanky and gleaming (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
  • Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Twist around your little finger
  • Two bricks short of a load
  • Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named Paul (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Two little ducks (Bingo call for number twenty two)
  • Two sandwiches short of a picnic
  • Under the microscope
  • Wait just a cotton picking minute
  • Wee small hours of the morning
  • Who's little boy are you?
  • Widow's mite
  • With A Little Help From My Friends (The Beatles song)
  • Women and children first
  • Wrapped around your little finger
  • Yeah but, no but (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
  • Yeah, I know (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
  • You can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff (Groucho Marx line)
  • You'll look a little lovelier each day, with fabulous pink Camay (Camay Soap advertising slogan)

Related

  • A still small voice
  • All creatures great and small
  • As small as the hairs on a gnat's bollock
  • Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
  • Don't sweat the small stuff
  • Gnat's bollock (slang term for a very small unit of measurement)
  • Good things come in small packages
  • Good things come in small parcels
  • Greasy spoon (a small cheap cafe selling fried food)
  • No job too small
  • One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind (Neil Armstrong quotation)
  • Seeing small business differently (SBC Communications advertising slogan)
  • Small beer
  • Small fortune
  • Small is beautiful
  • Small minded
  • Small potatoes
  • Small wonder
  • Small wonder (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
  • Solutions for a small planet (IBM advertising slogan)
  • The God Of Small Things (Arundhati Roy book)
  • The next small thing
  • The small screen
  • The still small voice of God
  • The winner takes it all, the loser standing small (ABBA lyric)
  • Think small (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
  • Wee small hours of the morning