Worker Phrases

Phrases

• A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play (Mars Chocolate advertising slogan)
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• 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)
• At first hand
• Bite your hand off
• Biting the hand that feeds IT (The Register advertising slogan)
• Blue collar worker
• Bound hand and foot
• Bury yourself in your work
• Business at hand
• Cap in hand
• Cash in hand
• Caught with your hand in the cookie jar
• Caught with your hand in the till
• Cleaning lady
• Close enough for government work
• Company man (a worker especially loyal to the employer he works for)
• Condemned out of hand
• Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman movie)
• Dab hand at
• Desk jockey
• Desk rage
• Dirty work at the crossroads
• Don't bite the hand that feeds you
• Donkey work
• Driving a desk
• Eat out of someone's hand
• Employee Number 8 (Nickname of Antoine Walker)
• Extend the hand of friendship
• Fold your hand
• Force his hand
• Free hand
• Get behind in your work
• Get out of hand
• Get the upper hand
• Give a hand
• Go cap in hand
• Go to work on an egg (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Got to hand it to you
• Hand a line
• Hand in glove
• Hand in hand
• Hand in your notice
• Hand it on a plate
• Hand it over
• Hand job
• Hand me down
• Hand me downs
• Hand over
• Hand over fist
• Hand picked
• Hand to mouth
• Hand's turn
• Hard work never did anyone any harm
• Hard work never killed anyone
• Hat in hand
• Have a hand in
• Have it in hand
• Have your work cut out for you
• Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
• Heavy Lunch (Nickname of American football player Norman Hand)
• Helping hand
• Home worker
• I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles song)
• 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)
• In the palm of your hand
• Industrial action
• Keep up the good work
• Keep your hand in
• Know like the back of your hand
• Lend a hand on the land (WWII slogan)
• Lend a helping hand
• Life is our life's Work (Pfizer advertising slogan)
• Line of work
• M&Ms melt in your mouth, not in your hand (M&Ms chocolate advertising slogan)
• 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
• Off hand
• Office work
• On the one hand
• On the other hand
• One hand tied behind your back
• One hand washes the other
• Only fools and horses work
• Pressure of work
• Put your hand in your pocket
• Put your hand to the plough
• Raise your hand if you're sure (Sure advertising slogan)
• Real piece of work
• Right hand man
• Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
• Show your hand
• Slave away at
• Slave to drink
• Sleight of hand
• Spade work
• Strengthen your hand
• Swede basher
• Take your hand in marriage
• Talk to the hand
• The Devil finds work for idle hands to do
• The Internet at Work (UUNET advertising slogan)
• The Slave (Nickname of Paul Millsap)
• The answer is at hand
• The hand is quicker than the eye
• The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
• The matter in hand
• The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand (M&M advertising slogan)
• The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing
• The workers united shall never be defeated
• This Woman's Work (Kate Bush song)
• Try your hand
• Up the workers
• Upper hand
• 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
• What we have here is a failure to communicate (line from Cool Hand Luke)
• Whip hand
• 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
• Workers of the world arise you have nothing to lose but your chains
• Working Class Hero (John Lennon song)
• You don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps