Value Phrases

Phrases

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A swarm in May is worth a load of hay
• A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men
• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
• Asking price
• At a price to suit your pocket
• At any cost
• At face value
• Because I'm worth it (L'Oreal advertising slogan)
• Bluff charge (A movement towards by an animal towards its prey which is halted without attacking)
• CD quality
• Capital asset
• Capital cost
• Carry the cost
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Cheap at half the price
• China price
• Chip and charge
• Closing price
• Come on down (A catchphrase from The Price Is Right)
• Core values
• Cost a pretty penny
• Cost an arm and a leg
• Cost control
• Cost cutting
• Cost effective
• Cost the earth
• Count the cost
• Emotion charged
• Every man has his price
• Fair market value (a reasonable price for an article for sale)
• Family values
• For what it's worth
• Fort Worthless (Nickname of Fort Worth Texas)
• Fuzzy value
• Get your money's worth
• Half price
• He knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing
• Hidden treasure
• I don't have to show you any stinking badges (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
• I'm in charge (A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth)
• If a job is worth doing it is worth doing well
• If it ain't Stiff it ain't worth a f*ck (Stiff Records advertising slogan)
• If you have to ask the price you can't afford it (Rolls Royce slogan)
• It's not worth crying over spilt milk
• Knockdown price
• Letter quality
• Little treasure
• Live today. Tomorrow will cost more (Pan-Am World Airways advertising slogan)
• Mate's rates (discount price offered to friends)
• Milk it for all it's worth
• More bang for your buck
• More than my job's worth
• National treasure
• Not worth a hill of beans
• Not worth a plugged nickel
• Not worth a tinker's dam
• Not worth the candle
• Not worth the paper it's printed on
• Nuisance value
• Offer price
• One man's trash is another man's treasure
• One volunteer is worth ten pressed men
• Owe it to yourself
• Pay the price
• Pearl of great price
• Pearls past price
• Perfume worth 9 guineas an ounce (Camay Soap advertising slogan)
• Power without the price (Atari advertising slogan)
• Premium quality
• Price fixing
• Price on his head
• Price out of the market
• Price rigging
• Prize catch
• Quality control
• Quality is job one (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Quality never goes out of style (Levi's Jeans advertising slogan)
• Quality time
• Right service Right price (Meineke advertising slogan)
• Rubber chicken (poor quality or overcooked chicken)
• Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
• Sixpence worth of Heaven (Cadbury's Flake advertising slogan)
• Star quality
• Take charge
• The Prince of Menace (Nickname of actor Vincent Price)
• The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Humphrey Bogart movie)
• The price is dropping on your weekly shopping (Tesco advertising slogan)
• The price is right
• The price of liberty is eternal vigilance
• The quality of mercy is not strained (from The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare)
• The unexamined life is not worth living (philosophical opinion by Socrates)
• Think the world of
• Top quality
• Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson book)
• Treasure chest
• Treasure trove
• Two cents worth
• Two four six eight who do we appreciate (cheerleader chant)
• Value added tax
• Value for money
• Wardrobe mistress (a person in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company)
• Was she worth it (Bingo call for number fifty six)
• What do points mean? Points mean prizes (A catchphrase from Price Is Right)
• What does that have to do with the price of beans in Tijauna?
• What does that have to do with the price of fish?
• What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
• Worth a guinea a box (Beecham's Pills advertising slogan)
• Worth one's weight in gold
• Your choice down at Wendy's, where quality is our recipe (Wendy Burgers advertising slogan)