Woodwork Phrases

Phrases

• A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play (Mars Chocolate advertising slogan)
• A hewer of wood and a drawer of water
• A lot on your plate (having many responsibilities)
• A work in progress
• Ads work harder in the new Granada (Granada advertising slogan)
• All in a day's work
• All my own work
• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
• Alpha Mom (an ambitious mother who aims to excel at work while raising children)
• Bury yourself in your work
• Can't see the wood for the trees
• Close enough for government work
• Come out of the woodwork
• Crawl out of the woodwork
• Cut out the dead wood
• Dead wood
• Dee plane, dee plane (A catchphrase from Fantasy Island)
• Dirty work at the crossroads
• Donkey work
• Dovetail into
• Get behind in your work
• Get good wood on it
• Go to work on an egg (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Hard work never did anyone any harm
• Hard work never killed anyone
• Have your work cut out for you
• Hit the woodwork
• I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine (Bob Dylan song)
• I Saw Her Standing There (Beatles song)
• I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (Spike Jones song)
• I came, I saw, I conquered
• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work (Thomas Edison quotation)
• I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? (Beatles song lyric)
• If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers
• Imagination at Work (General Electric advertising slogan)
• Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's Superman? (A catchphrase from Superman)
• Keep up the good work
• Knock on wood
• Life is our life's Work (Pfizer advertising slogan)
• Line of work
• Maid of all work
• Make light work of
• Make short work of
• Many hands make light work
• Nasty piece of work

• Never do a stroke of work
• Nice work if you can get it
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Office work
• Only fools and horses work
• Pressure of work
• Put the wood in the hole
• Real piece of work
• Spade work
• Spit and sawdust
• Splendour In The Grass (Warren Beatty / Natalie Wood movie)
• The Devil finds work for idle hands to do
• The Internet at Work (UUNET advertising slogan)
• The Last Time I Saw Paris (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• This Woman's Work (Kate Bush song)
• Timber!
• Touch wood
• We Can Work It Out (Beatles song)
• We make things that make communications work (Lucent Technologies advertising slogan)
• West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie)
• What a piece of work is man
• What the butler saw
• Whistle while you work
• Why do only fools and horses work?
• Woman's work is never done
• Work both sides of the street
• Work expands so as to fill the time available
• Work hard. Fly right (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• Work it
• Work itself up into a lather
• Work life balance
• Work like a Trojan
• Work like a beaver
• Work like a dog
• Work of art
• Work one's fingers to the bone
• Work the phone
• Work the rabbit's foot on
• Work to rule
• Work wonders
• Work your ass off
• Work your butt off
• Work your ticket
• Work yourself into the ground
• You don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps