Phrase thesaurus
Weight Phrases
78 phrases and expressions related to "weight".
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