Weight Phrases

Phrases

• A few bricks short of a full load
• A glass and a half in every half pound (Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate advertising slogan)
• A load of bull
• A load of cobblers
• A load of codswallop
• A load of crap
• A load of rubbish
• A load off your mind
• A swarm in May is worth a load of hay
• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
• Angle for
• As heavy as lead
• As light as a feather
• Barrel load of laughs
• Barrel load of monkeys
• Beast of burden
• Body mass index
• Burden of proof
• By the lorry load
• Get a load of that
• Get a load on
• Good things come to those who wait (Guinness advertising slogan)
• Half a pound of tuppenny rice, half a pound of treacle (line from nursery rhyme)
• He ain't heavy, he's my brother
• Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beatty movie)
• Heavy Lunch (Nickname of American football player Norman Hand)
• Heavy duty
• Heavy going
• Heavy handed
• Heavy hitter (A baseball expression meaning a powerful or commanding person)
• Heavy meal
• Heavy metal
• Heavy petting
• Heavy rock
• Heavy weather
• Heavy with child
• Hot and heavy
• Hurry up and wait
• In for a penny in for a pound

• It sits as lightly on a heavy meal as it does on your conscience (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• It's not too heavy, not too sweet, it's right for you (RC Cola advertising slogan)
• Lie in wait
• Lighten the load
• Load the dice
• Lock and load
• Make heavy weather of
• Not many of them to the pound
• Not too heavy, not too light, its just right! (Kelloggs advertising slogan)
• Off load
• One brick short of a load
• Penny wise, pound foolish
• Perfume worth 9 guineas an ounce (Camay Soap advertising slogan)
• Pink pound
• Pound for pound
• Pound of flesh
• Pound the pavement
• Pull your weight
• Punching above his weight
• Solo pound
• Take the weight off your feet
• Taste, not waist (Weight Watchers Frozen Meals advertising slogan)
• The battle of the bulge
• The heavy artillery
• The pound in your pocket
• The wait is over
• They also serve who only stand and wait (from a poem by Milton)
• Throw your weight about
• Time and tide wait for no man
• Tip the scales
• Two bricks short of a load
• Victory won't wait for the nation that's late (Big Ben Clocks advertising slogan)
• Wait in line
• Wait just a cotton picking minute
• Watching your weight
• Weighed in the balance and found wanting
• Weight off my mind
• White man's burden
• Worth one's weight in gold