Vocabulary Phrases

Phrases

• 50 Words for Snow (Kate Bush song)
• A picture paints a thousand words
• Actions speak louder than words
• 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
• Deeds not words
• Don't mince words
• Eat your words
• Empty words

• Famous last words
• Fine words butter no parsnips
• Foul language
• Hard words
• Have words with
• In as many words
• 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
• Kind words
• Language barrier
• Lost for words

• Man of few words
• Mark my words
• Mince your words
• Mind your language
• Not in so many words
• Put words into someone's mouth
• Say a few words
• Speak the same language
• Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
• Swallow the dictionary
• Take the words out of my mouth
• To have words with

• War of words
• Warm words
• Watch your language
• Way with words
• 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)