Sophisticated Phrases

Phrases

• Advanced in years
• Advanced notice
• All there (clever or quick-witted)
• American Home has an edifice complex (American Home Magazine advertising slogan)
• Because life's complicated enough (Abbey National advertising slogan)
• Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it
• Box clever
• Bust a move (dance in a stylish way)
• Classy chassis
• Clever clogs
• Clever dick
• Complex fracture (a multiple fracture)
• Complex number (a number containing real and imaginary parts)
• Complex sentence (a sentence containing subordinate clauses)
• Don't get a complex, get Amplex (Amplex Deodorant advertising slogan)
• Geek chic
• Heroin chic
• High culture (refined artistic or intellectual achievement)
• Inferiority complex
• It's complicated (Facebook relationship status)
• It's not big and it's not clever
• Le Freak (Chic song)
• Librarian chic
• Mother Superior jumped the gun (Beatles song lyric)
• Noble savage
• Paternal bonus (a joke or theme added to a childrens programme aimed at adults)
• Radical chic
• Rough and ready
• Rough around the edges
• Shabby chic
• Sophisticated living
• To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
• Too clever by half