Teenage Phrases

Phrases

• A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
• America's Oldest Living Teenager (Nickname of game show host Dick Clark)
• Awkward age
• Blossoming youth
• Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
• Child of God
• Child's play
• Don't trust anyone over thirty
• Famous for fifteen minutes
• Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
• Fifteen minutes of fame
• Go with child
• Growing pains
• Heavy with child
• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?
• It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen (the opening line of Nineteen Eighty-Four)
• Leave no child behind (Political slogan)
• Love child
• Ocean's Thirteen (Brad Pitt / George Clooney movie)
• Pass the Dutchie (Musical Youth song)
• Problem child
• Saturday's child works hard for a living
• Saviour sibling (a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease)
• Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana song)
• Spare the rod and spoil the child
• Sunday's child is full of grace
• Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry / Beatles song)
• Teenage Dream (Katy Perry song)
• The Man Child (Nickname of Dwight Howard)
• The Man with the Child in His Eyes (Kate Bush song)
• The child is father of the man (from a poem by Wordsworth)
• The flower of one's youth
• The fountain of youth
• Thursday's child has far to go
• Unlucky for some (Bingo call for number thirteen)
• Up the academy
• Voodoo Child (Jimi Hendrix song)
• War baby (someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier)
• Wednesday's child has far to go
• With child
• Youth is wasted on the young