Sole Phrases

Phrases

• A Fish Called Wanda (John Cleese movie)
• A chain is only as strong as its weakest link
• A foot in both camps
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
• A room without books is like a body without a soul (Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation)
• A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a smoke
• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
• All is fish that comes to the net
• Athlete's foot
• Beauty is only skin deep
• Big fish eat little fish
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Bigger fish to fry
• Bless my soul
• Body and soul
• Bound hand and foot
• Brevity is the soul of wit
• Cold fish
• Confession is good for the soul
• Cry stinking fish
• Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes (Paul Simon song)
• Different kettle of fish
• Do you know the piano's on my foot?
• Does she or doesn't she? Only her hairdresser knows for sure (Clairol advertising slogan)
• Don't vote; it only encourages them (Anarchist political slogan)
• Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes (Ben Jonson poem and Victorian song)
• Drink like a fish
• Face that only a mother could love
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• First World problem (a relatively trivial problem only affecting the affluent)
• Fish always rot from the head downwards
• Fish and finger pie (Beatles song lyric)
• Fish and guests smell after three days
• Fish it out
• Fish or cut bait
• Fish out
• Fish out of water
• Fleet of foot
• Foot in mouth
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• Foot in the door
• Foot the bill
• For Your Eyes Only (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
• For your eyes only
• Fuel for the Soul (Pontiac advertising slogan)
• Get off on the right foot
• Get off on the wrong foot
• Get your foot in the door
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
• God Only Knows (Beach Boys song)
• God rest his soul
• Got bigger fish to fry
• Heart and soul
• Hey, Soul Sister (Train song)
• Hiyo Silver away (A catchphrase from The Lone Ranger)
• I am the only gay in the village (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• I don't believe it (A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew, One Foot In The Grave)
• I'll go to the foot of our stairs
• I'm Only Sleeping (The Beatles song)
• I'm only doing my job
• I'm only here for the beer (Double Diamond advertising slogan)
• I'm only human
• If I've only one life, let me live it as a blonde! (Clairol Hair Colouring advertising slogan)
• If all the world were Jell-O, And whipped cream filled the sea, Then the only spoon from here to the moon Would have to belong to me (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• If only
• If only everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagen (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• In name only
• It can only be Heineken (Heineken advertising slogan)
• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife (the opening line of Pride and Prejudice)
• It only hurts when I laugh
• It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
• It's Only Rock And Roll, But I Like It (Rolling Stones song)
• It's only a game
• It's only natural
• Just like a chocolate milkshake, only crunchy (Coco Pops advertising slogan)
• Ke-mo sah-bee (A catchphrase from Tonto In The Lone Ranger)
• Keep body and soul together
• Kemo Sabe (Nickname of The Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore))
• Life and soul of the party
• Like a fish out of water
• Like shooting fish in a barrel
• Listen I will say zis only wunce (A catchphrase from Allo Allo)
• Little fish in a big pond (someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers)
• Lost soul
• Lovely jubbly (A catchphrase from Only Fools and Horses)
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Northern soul
• Not the only pebble on the beach
• Now There is only one Mars (Mars Chocolate advertising slogan)
• Odd fish
• Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he (line from nursery rhyme)
• On the back foot
• On the wrong foot
• One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
• One foot in the grave
• Only 1 out of 25 men is color blind. The other 24 just dress that way (Mohara Suits advertising slogan)
• Only A Pawn In Their Game (Bob Dylan song)
• Only Fools and Horses
• Only Girl In the World (Rihanna song)
• Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Neil Young song)
• Only Nixon could go to China
• Only Smarties have the answer (Smarties advertising slogan)
• Only a matter of time
• Only connect
• Only fools and horses work
• Only game in town
• Only half there
• Only human
• Only in America
• Only in a Jeep (Jeep advertising slogan)
• Only the best for the Captain's table (Birdseye advertising slogan)
• Only the brave deserve the fair and the fair deserve JAEGER (Jaeger Sportswear advertising slogan)
• Only time will tell
• Only you can prevent forest fires (United States Forest Service advertising slogan)
• Opportunity only knocks once
• Oranges are not the only fruit
• Pretty kettle of fish
• Put a foot wrong
• Put one foot in front of the other
• Put your best foot forward
• Put your foot down
• Put your foot in it
• Put your foot in your mouth
• Queer fish
• Rubber Soul (Beatles album)
• School of fish
• Scotch and the Single Girl (J&B Scotch advertising slogan)
• Sell your soul to the devil
• Set foot in
• Shoot yourself in the foot
• Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (Beyonce song)
• Single file
• Single out
• Single point of contact
• Single sign-on
• So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
• Soul brother
• Soul food
• Soul man
• Soul searching
• Soul sister
• Soul train
• Standing room only
• The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Godfather of Soul (Pseudonym of singer James Brown)
• The Hustle (Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony song)
• The Lone Ranger (Pseudonym of John Reid (Clayton Moore))
• The Lone Star Cobra (Nickname of Donald Curry)
• The Lone Star State (Nickname of the US state of Texas)
• The Only Way Is Essex (British reality television series)
• The boot is on the other foot
• The eyes are the windows of the soul
• The longest journey starts with a single step
• The one and only Wonderbra (Wonderbra advertising slogan)
• The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals (Crispy Critters advertising slogan)
• The only 'sauce' I dare give Father (Burma Sauce advertising slogan)
• The only constant is change
• The only good Indian is a dead Indian
• The only show in town
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (Political slogan)
• The only way to fly (Western Airlines advertising slogan)
• The shoe's on the other foot
• There's not a soul out there, no one to hear my prayer (ABBA lyric)
• There's only one
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• They also serve who only stand and wait (from a poem by Milton)
• This time next year we will be millionaires (A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses)
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• Ugly is only skin-deep (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• Unique in All the World (Ford Thunderbird advertising slogan)
• Wet fish
• What does that have to do with the price of fish?
• When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions
• When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash
• Who was that masked man? (A catchphrase from The Lone Ranger)
• Why do only fools and horses work?
• Work the rabbit's foot on
• You Are My Sunshine, My Only Sunshine (Johnny Cash song)
• You Only Live Twice (James Bond movie Sean Connery)
• You know it makes sense (A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses)
• You only get one chance to make a first impression
• You only hurt the one you love
• You only live once
• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough (Mae West quotation)
• You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! (line from the Michael Caine movie The Italian Job)
• You're My Heart, You're My Soul (Modern Talking song)
• You're only young once
• Young and sweet, only seventeen (ABBA lyric)