Word Phrases

Phrases

• 50 Words for Snow (Kate Bush song)
• A picture paints a thousand words
• A still small voice
• A word to the wise
• Actions speak louder than words
• Address the ball (golfing term denoting readiness to play)
• Alpha and omega (the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, used as a name for God or Jesus)
• Alphabet soup (a jumble of words or letters, often in reference to organsiations known by their initials, like CIA or BBC)
• An Englishman's word is his bond
• Any word?
• As good as your word
• At a loss for words
• Bandy words with
• Bedroom tax (slang term for UK's removal of Spare Room Subsidy)
• Breach of promise
• Bunny suit (Canadian military slang term for a cbrn (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear))
• Chain letter
• Click bait (an eye ctaching word or image on a website)
• Code monkey (slang term for a computer programmer)
• Coin a phrase
• Complex sentence (a sentence containing subordinate clauses)
• Data dictionary
• Dead letter
• Deeds not words
• Don't mince words
• Eat your words
• Empty words
• Famous last words
• Fine words butter no parsnips
• Four letter word
• French letter
• From the word go
• Full of Eastern Promise (Fry's Turkish Delight advertising slogan)
• Get a word in edgeways
• Give your word
• Go back on a promise
• Go back on one's word (Retract a previous promise)
• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good (Wall Street)
• Hang on every word
• Hard words
• Have a word with yourself
• Have words with
• He understands every word I say to him
• Here's a word from our sponsor
• His word is law
• Hit the bricks (a cursory slang term telling someone to leave)
• Hobson's choice (Cockney rhyming slang for voice)
• Honey bunny (a mawkish term of affection)
• I'll not hear a word against him
• In a word
• In as many words
• In love with the sound of your own voice
• In other words
• In the beginning was the word
• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on (Robert Frost quotation)
• In words of one syllable
• Inner voice
• Just say the word
• Keep your promise
• Keep your word
• Kind words
• Last word
• Letter bomb
• Letter for letter
• Letter perfect
• Letter quality
• Lick and a promise
• Lost for words
• Man of few words
• Man of his word
• Many a true word is spoken in jest
• Mark my words

• Marriage isn't a word it's a sentence
• Mince your words
• Mum's the word
• Mumm's the word (Mumm's Champagne advertising slogan)
• My word is my bond
• My word!
• Nary, a word
• Not in so many words
• Pass sentence
• Poison pen letter
• Pommy bashing (Australian slang term for physical or verbal attacks on the English)
• Promise her anything, but give her Arpege (Arpege Perfume advertising slogan)
• Put in a good word for
• Put the hard word on
• Put words into someone's mouth
• Red letter day
• Rubber johnny (a British slang term for a condom)
• Say a few words
• Say the magic word and win $100 dollars (A catchphrase from Groucho Marx In You Bet Your Life)
• Shack rat (Canadian military slang term for a promiscuous female who visits military barracks to sleep with soldiers)
• Somebody somewhere wants a letter from you (British Post Office advertising slogan)
• Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (Elton John song)
• Sparrow fart (jokey term for the early morning)
• Spread the word
• Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
• Suck face (slang term for kissing)
• Swallow the dictionary
• Take someone's word for it
• Take the words out of my mouth
• The Active voice
• The Chrysanthemum Throne (the traditional term for the reign of the Emperor of Japan)
• The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce book)
• The F word
• The French Have A Word For It (Josh Lanyon book)
• The French have a word for it
• The Purloined Letter
• The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe book)
• The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne story)
• The Voice of Canada (Nickname of actor Lorne Greene)
• The bull in the bowler hat (jokey term for artificial insemination)
• The letter of the law
• The phrase that pays
• The still small voice of God
• The word on the street
• Three letter acronym
• Throw your voice
• To have words with
• To the letter
• Turn of phrase
• Voice mail
• Voice of doom
• Voice of reason
• Voice your concern
• War of words
• Warm words
• Way with words
• Weasel words
• Well-chosen words
• What's the good word?
• Whisper words of wisdom, let it be (The Beatles song lyric)
• Word association football
• Word for word
• Word has it
• Word in your ear
• Word in your shell-like
• Word of honour
• Word of mouth
• Word to the wise
• Words Of Love (Buddy Holly song)
• Words of wisdom
• Yellow belly (slang term for a coward)
• You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth, It Must Have Been Whilst You Were Kissing Me (Meatloaf song)

Related

• A word to the wise
• An Englishman's word is his bond
• Any word?
• As good as your word
• Click bait (an eye ctaching word or image on a website)
• Four letter word
• From the word go
• Get a word in edgeways
• Give your word
• Go back on one's word (Retract a previous promise)
• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good (Wall Street)
• Hang on every word
• Have a word with yourself
• He understands every word I say to him
• Here's a word from our sponsor
• His word is law
• I'll not hear a word against him
• In a word
• In the beginning was the word
• Just say the word
• Keep your word
• Last word
• Man of his word
• Many a true word is spoken in jest
• Marriage isn't a word it's a sentence
• Mum's the word
• Mumm's the word (Mumm's Champagne advertising slogan)
• My word is my bond
• My word!
• Nary, a word
• Put in a good word for
• Put the hard word on
• Say the magic word and win $100 dollars (A catchphrase from Groucho Marx In You Bet Your Life)
• Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (Elton John song)
• Spread the word
• Take someone's word for it
• The F word
• The French Have A Word For It (Josh Lanyon book)
• The French have a word for it
• The word on the street
• What's the good word?
• Word association football
• Word for word
• Word has it
• Word in your ear
• Word in your shell-like
• Word of honour
• Word of mouth
• Word to the wise