Phrase thesaurus
Wife Phrases
79 phrases and expressions related to "wife".
Phrases
- A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple
- A marriage made in heaven
- All the world and his wife
- An Ideal Husband (play by Oscar Wilde)
- Ball and chain
- Battle of the sexes
- Better half
- Boon companion
- Business partner
- Caesar's wife must be above suspicion
- Chief of staff
- Companion plant (a plant grown near to another species to enhance its growth)
- Family man
- Family matters
- First comes love, then comes marriage
- Home maker
- Honey I'm home
- Honey, I just forgot to duck
- House husband
- How To Murder Your Wife (Jack Lemmon movie)
- Howdy partner
- I married my husband for life, not for lunch
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife (the opening line of Pride and Prejudice)
- It's complicated (Facebook relationship status)
- Join in marriage
- Just married
- Let's rock (A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With Children)
- Life partner
- Live as man and wife
- Living as man and wife
- Living in sin
- Living together
- Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage
- Love-hate relationship
- Man and wife
- Marriage isn't a word it's a sentence
- Marriage of convenience
- Married state
- Mixed marriage
- My husband and I
- My old Dutch (Cockney rhyming slang for duchess)
- Number one concubine (name given to the partner of Bertrand Russell)
- Old wives' tale
- Open marriage
- Partner up (find a companion)
- Peggy Sue Got Married (Buddy Holly song)
- Reader, I married him
- Revenge porn (the malicious posting of sexual images online to harm the reputation of an ex partner)
- Revenge sex (sex with the intention of infecting a partner with Aids)
- Silent partner
- Silver wedding (a celebration of twenty-five years of marriage)
- Skin partner
- Starter marriage
- Take your hand in marriage
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales (Oliver Sacks book)
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- The Stepford Wives (Katharine Ross / Nicole Kidman movie)
- The husband is always the last to know
- The old ball and chain
- The world and his wife
- They also serve who only stand and wait (from a poem by Milton)
- Together forever
- Trophy wife
- Trouble and strife (Cockney rhyming slang for wife)
- War widow (a woman whose husband died in a war)
- Was she worth it (Bingo call for number fifty six)
- Wear the trousers
Related
- A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple
- All the world and his wife
- Caesar's wife must be above suspicion
- How To Murder Your Wife (Jack Lemmon movie)
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife (the opening line of Pride and Prejudice)
- Live as man and wife
- Living as man and wife
- Man and wife
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales (Oliver Sacks book)
- The world and his wife
- Trophy wife
- Trouble and strife (Cockney rhyming slang for wife)