Standard Phrases

Phrases

• A symbol of freedom (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
• All part of life's rich pattern
• As per usual
• As regular as clockwork
• As usual
• Banner year
• Basic Instinct (Sharon Stone movie)
• Bloody typical
• Bog standard
• Business as usual
• Buy Opera today And make this banner go away (Opera advertising slogan)
• Daily grind (the daily routine of a dull or boring job)
• Double standard
• Flag fall (An Australian expression for a fixed starting fee, typically at the start of a taxi ride)
• Flag it up
• Fly the flag (British Airways advertising slogan)
• Half measure
• Holding pattern
• House style
• I'm smarter than the average bear! (A catchphrase from The Yogi Bear Show)
• In stock
• Just a regular guy
• Keep the flag flying
• Laughing stock
• Lock stock and barrel

• Made to measure
• Manos de Piedra' (Nickname of Roberto Duran Flag of Panama)
• Measure for Measure
• Measure twice, cut once
• Measure up
• Normal service has been resumed
• Out of stock
• Rally round the flag
• Round up the usual suspects (Casablanca)
• Sex symbol
• Show the flag
• Situation normal, all f*cked up
• Standard of the World (Cadillac advertising slogan)
• Star Spangled Banner (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Stock in trade
• Summer time (the time adopted during the summer in advance of the standard time)
• Take stock
• Take the chequered flag
• The Gold Standard
• The Joy of Sex (Title of 1970s sex manual)
• The Pocket Rocket (Nickname of Wayne McCullough Flag of Northern Ireland Flag of Ireland)
• The usual suspects
• The world puts its stock in us (NYSE advertising slogan)
• Vodka as it should be (Russian Standard advertising slogan)
• Wave the white flag
• Wrap yourself in the flag