Work Phrases

Phrases

• A Double Diamond works wonders (Double Diamond advertising slogan)
• A Hard Day's Night (Beatles song and movie)
• A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play (Mars Chocolate advertising slogan)
• A dirty business
• A hands turn
• A head for business and a body for sin
• A lot on your plate (having many responsibilities)
• A poor workman blames his tools
• 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)
• Another day older and deeper in debt
• Another day, another dollar
• Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did? (Dial Soap advertising slogan)
• As patient as Job
• Attention deficit disorder
• Attention to detail
• Back in business
• Back to school
• Back to the salt mine
• Balance of trade
• Bayer works wonders (Bayer Aspirin advertising slogan)
• Be careful how you use it! (Hai Karate Aftershave advertising slogan)
• Beast of burden
• Beast of the fields
• Beaver away at
• Big Blue (Nickname of International Business Machines (IBM))
• Blow job
• Blue Monday
• Blue collar worker
• Boob job
• Botched job
• Brain drain
• Bread and butter
• Break your back
• Bring home the bacon
• Buckle down
• Burn the midnight oil
• Bury yourself in your work
• Business acumen
• Business as usual
• Business at hand
• Business before pleasure
• Business class
• Business end
• Business is beautiful (Sprint advertising slogan)
• Business is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
• Business jet
• Business need
• Business or pleasure
• Business partner
• Business plan
• Business to business
• By the sweat of his brow
• Cap and trade (A policy tool aimed at protecting the environment)
• Captain of industry
• Centre of attention
• Chief cook and bottle washer
• Clock on
• Close enough for government work
• Come out of the woodwork
• Company man (a worker especially loyal to the employer he works for)
• Cottage industry
• Crawl out of the woodwork
• Daily grind (the daily routine of a dull or boring job)
• Die in harness
• Die with your boots on
• Dirty work at the crossroads
• Do the business
• Do your business
• Do your homework
• Do your level best
• Doing a land-office business
• Doing a sterling job
• Don't give up the day job
• Don't mix business with pleasure
• Don't put a cold in your pocket! - Use Kleenex Tissues (Kleenex Tissues advertising slogan)
• Don't use that tone with me
• Donkey work
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• Downsizing
• Duvet day
• Ear popping (a sound that is loud or that catches the attention)
• Earn an honest penny
• Earn your corn
• Elbow grease
• Everybody out (A catchphrase from The Rag Trade)
• Excite attention
• Fair Trade
• Fall down on the job
• Fancy footwork
• Fetch and carry
• Fish or cut bait
• For those who like the trade rough (Travis aftershave advertising slogan)
• Free trade
• Friday afternoon car
• Fruits of your labour
• Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration (Thomas Edison quotation)
• Get behind in your work
• Get down to business
• Get off your arse
• Get off your bike
• Get stuck in
• Get your hands dirty
• Give me the works
• Glutton for punishment
• Go about your business
• Go the extra mile
• Go to town
• Go to work on an egg (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Got My Mojo Working (Muddy Waters song)
• Grab attention
• Graveyard shift
• Gum up the works
• Hand job
• Hand's turn
• Hands up if you use Right Guard, Hands down if you don't (Right Guard antiperspirant advertising slogan)
• Hard at it
• Hard labour
• Hard work never did anyone any harm
• Hard work never killed anyone
• Hatchet job
• Have your work cut out for you
• Hazards of the job
• He who sups with the Devil should use a long spoon
• Heave ho
• Hit the woodwork
• Hive of industry
• Hold down a job
• Home worker
• Honey I'm home
• How does the wireless industry make you feel? (Sprint PCS advertising slogan)
• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work (Thomas Edison quotation)
• I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat (Winston Churchill quotation)
• I'll make it my business
• I'm only doing my job
• If a job is worth doing it is worth doing well
• If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers
• Imagination at Work (General Electric advertising slogan)
• In harness
• In the line of duty
• In the works
• Inside job
• It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it (A catchphrase from Nick Stone In Tightrope)
• It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been working like a dog (Beatles song lyric)
• It's no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted
• Just the job
• Keep the show on the road
• Keep the wolf from the door
• Keep up the good work
• Keep your nose to the grindstone
• Keep your shoulder to the wheel
• Knock off
• Knuckle down to
• Labour in vain
• Labour intensive
• Labour of love
• Labour pains
• Labour saving device

• Labour under a misapprehension
• Laid off
• Land office business
• Lie down on the job
• Life is our life's Work (Pfizer advertising slogan)
• Light duties
• Like nobody's business
• Line of work
• Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair (from a poem by Shelley)
• Loves Labour Lost
• Maid of all work
• Make a good job of it
• Make light work of
• Make short work of
• Make the best of a bad job
• Many hands make light work
• Mean business
• Mind your own business
• Money doesn't grow on trees
• Monkey business
• Moonlighting
• Moving at the speed of business (UPS advertising slogan)
• Multimedia you can use (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Nasty piece of work
• Never do a stroke of work
• Nice work if you can get it
• Night shift
• No job too small
• Off sick
• Office work
• On the job
• On the job training
• Only fools and horses work
• Open for business
• Overworked, and underpaid
• Parents who use drugs have kids who use drugs (The Partnership for a Drug-Free America advertising slogan)
• Phone in sick
• Pin money
• Pressure of work
• Prison works
• Put a spanner in the works
• Put to good use
• Put your hand to the plough
• Put-up job
• Quality is job one (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Quick and dirty
• Rag trade
• Real food for real people (The beef industry advertising slogan)
• Real piece of work
• Risky business
• Roll up your sleeves
• Root hog or die
• Rough trade
• Running like clockwork
• Rush job
• Saturday's child works hard for a living
• Seeing small business differently (SBC Communications advertising slogan)
• Seriously though, he's doing a grand job (A catchphrase from David Frost)
• Sing for your supper
• Sitting next to Nellie
• Slave away at
• Slog away
• Smokers are requested to use Swan Vestas (Swan Vesta matches advertising slogan)
• Snow job
• So easy to use, no wonder it's number one (AOL advertising slogan)
• Spade work
• Spanner in the works
• Stock in trade
• Strictly business
• Sunrise industry
• Sunset industry
• Take someone to task
• Taking care of business
• Talk shop
• Talking shop
• Tall task
• Thankless task
• That Friday feeling (anticipation of the weekend after a hard working week)
• That Monday morning feeling
• The Beehive Of Industry (Nickname of Providence Rhode Island)
• The Best Second Banana in the Business (Nickname of Art Carney)
• The Devil finds work for idle hands to do
• The Internet at Work (UUNET advertising slogan)
• The Italian Job (Michael Caine movie)
• The Rag Trade (BBC comedy television series)
• The Show Business Capital Of The World (Nickname of Hollywood California)
• The Smartest Dumbbell in the History of Show Business (Nickname of comedienne Gracie Allen)
• The business
• The business of America is business
• The dog ate my homework
• The oldest profession
• The patience of Job
• The right man for the job
• The right tool for the job
• The right tools for the job
• The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
• The toughest job you'll ever love (United States Peace Corps advertising slogan)
• There's No Business Like Show Business (Judy Garland song)
• This Woman's Work (Kate Bush song)
• This line of business
• To make that tough job easier - you deserve M&M candy (M&Ms advertising slogan)
• To no avail
• Too Much Monkey Business (Chuck Berry song)
• Tools of the trade
• Tote that bale
• Tote that barge
• Trade down
• Tricks of the trade
• Up to the task
• Use Somebody (Kings of Leon song)
• Use it or lose it
• Use matches sparingly (Swan Vesta matches advertising slogan)
• Use your loaf
• We Can Work It Out (Beatles song)
• We make things that make communications work (Lucent Technologies advertising slogan)
• We mean business
• We never stop working for you (Verizon Wireless advertising slogan)
• We'll do the homework (Bendix Appliances advertising slogan)
• What a piece of work is man
• Whatever Works (Woody Allen movie)
• Where there's muck there's brass
• Whistle while you work
• Why do only fools and horses work?
• Wind someone up (deliberately draw attention to something that will create agitation)
• 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
• Working
• Working Class Hero (John Lennon song)
• Working agreement
• Working all the hours God sends
• Working capital
• Working class
• Working for peanuts
• Working from home
• Working girl
• Working hard or hardly working?
• Working knowledge of
• Working on our night moves
• Working party
• Works like a charm
• Works like a dream ()
• You don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps
• You got a friend in the business (Gateway 2000 advertising slogan)
• You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! (line from the Michael Caine movie The Italian Job)

Related

• A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play (Mars Chocolate advertising slogan)
• 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
• Close enough for government work
• Dirty work at the crossroads
• Donkey work
• Get behind in your work
• 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
• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work (Thomas Edison quotation)
• If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers
• Imagination at Work (General Electric advertising slogan)
• Keep up the good work
• 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
• Office work
• Only fools and horses work
• Pressure of work
• Real piece of work
• Spade work
• The Devil finds work for idle hands to do
• The Internet at Work (UUNET advertising slogan)
• This Woman's Work (Kate Bush song)
• We Can Work It Out (Beatles song)
• We make things that make communications work (Lucent Technologies advertising slogan)
• What a piece of work is man
• 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