Phrase thesaurus

Speech Phrases

137 phrases and expressions related to "speech".

Phrases

50 Words for Snow (Kate Bush song)
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse
A picture paints a thousand words
A still small voice
A week is a long time in politics
Actions speak louder than words
Address the ball (golfing term denoting readiness to play)
All talk
All talk and no trousers
Alphabet soup (a jumble of words or letters, often in reference to organsiations known by their initials, like CIA or BBC)
At a loss for words
Bandy words with
Barnyard language
Body language
Careless talk costs lives (WWII slogan)
Cat got your tongue?
Chalk and talk
Change of address
Come and talk to the listening bank (Midland Bank advertising slogan)
Conversation piece
Conversation stopper
Deeds not words
Don't mince words
Eat your words
Empty words
Famous last words
Fighting talk
Fine words butter no parsnips
Foul language
Get on your hind legs
Good talk saves the food
Hard words
Have words with
Hear me out
Heart to heart talk
Hobson's choice (Cockney rhyming slang for voice)
Hold forth
I don't wanna talk (ABBA lyric)
I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat (Winston Churchill quotation)
I want to talk to the organ grinder not the monkey
Idle talk
In as many words
In love with the sound of your own voice
In other words
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on (Robert Frost quotation)
In words of one syllable
Inner voice
Irritable vowel syndrome
It came out in the conversation
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it (Maurice Switzer quotation)
It's good to talk (British Telecom advertising slogan)
Jive talk
Keynote speaker
Kind words
Language barrier
Let's Talk About Love (Celine Dion album)
Loose talk
Lost for words
Maiden speech
Man of few words
Mark my words
Mince your words
Mind your language
Mind your p's and q's
Money doesn't talk, it swears
Not in so many words
Number 10 Downing Street (address of the British Prime Minister)
On this auspicious occasion

Pillow talk
Please address the court
Put words into someone's mouth
Rabbit and pork (Cockney rhyming slang for talk)
Say a few words
Say your piece
Sharp tongue
Shoot straight (to talk or deal honestly)
Silver tongued (eloquent or persuasive manner of speech)
Smooth talk
Speak the same language
Speech is silver but silence is golden
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
Take the words out of my mouth
Talk a blue streak
Talk a good game
Talk dirty
Talk down to
Talk in riddles
Talk is cheap
Talk it up
Talk me through it
Talk of the Devil
Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear
Talk offline
Talk out of school
Talk out of your ass
Talk over your head
Talk shop
Talk the hind legs off a donkey
Talk the talk
Talk through your hat
Talk to Ralph on the big white phone
Talk to me, baby
Talk to the hand
Talk turkey
Talk tweed
The Active voice
The King's Speech (Colin Firth movie)
The Voice of Canada (Nickname of actor Lorne Greene)
The silent treatment
The still small voice of God
The talk of the town
The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things
The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, Carroll)
Throw your voice
To have words with
To save and invest, talk to Natwest (Natwest Bank advertising slogan)
Trash talk
Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking
Voice mail
Voice of doom
Voice of reason
Voice your concern
Walk the talk
Walk the walk, talk the talk
War of words
Warm words
Watch your language
Way with words
We Need To Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver book)
We have ways of making you talk
We will fight on the beaches
Weasel words
Well-chosen words
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be (The Beatles song lyric)
Words Of Love (Buddy Holly song)
Words of wisdom
You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth, It Must Have Been Whilst You Were Kissing Me (Meatloaf song)