Vicar Phrases

Phrases

• All gas and gaiters
• As nervous as a whore in church
• As poor as a church mouse
• As the actress said to the bishop
• Baby father
• Bash the bishop
• Be It Ever So Humble There's No Place Like Home (John Howard Payne and Sir Henry Bishop song)
• Bless his/her cotton socks
• Bless my soul
• Blue collar worker
• Curate's egg
• Drink, feck, arse (A catchphrase from Father Ted)
• Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been (Beatles song lyric)
• Father Knows Best (American TV Show)
• Father Of The Bride (Steve Martin movie)
• Father Ted (BBC comedy television series)
• Father of The Atomic Bomb (Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer)
• Feel someone's collar
• Founding father
• Full fathom five thy father lies (from The Tempest by Shakespeare)
• God bless America
• God bless you
• High church
• His father's son
• Honour thy father and mother
• Hot under the collar
• How con-veen-ient! (A catchphrase from The Church Lady In Saturday Night Live)

• How's your father
• Just a glint in his father's eye
• Like father, like son
• Man of the cloth
• More tea vicar?
• Mother church
• No no no no no no yes (A catchphrase from The Vicar Of Dibley)
• Not a penny to bless yourself with,
• Number 10 Downing Street (address of the British Prime Minister)
• Our father who art in heaven
• Radio collar
• Ring around the collar (Wisk detergent advertising slogan)
• Santa's Little Helpers (allusion to the elves that help Father Christmas)
• Slip the collar
• The Conservative Party at prayer (The Church of England)
• The Minister of Defense (Nickname of Reggie White)
• The Prime Minister of Mirth (Nickname of George Robey)
• The Rat Pack (Nickname of entertainers Dean Martin Sammy Davis Jr Peter Lawford Joey Bishop and Frank Sinatra)
• The Sash My Father Wore (Irish traditional song)
• The Vicar of Dibley (BBC comedy television series)
• The boy is father to the man
• The child is father of the man (from a poem by Wordsworth)
• The only 'sauce' I dare give Father (Burma Sauce advertising slogan)
• The sash my father wore
• The wish is father to the thought
• This is Not Your Father's Oldsmobile (Oldsmobile advertising slogan)
• Took the collar (A baseball expression meaning failing to get any hits)
• Yes Minister (BBC comedy television series)