Worn Phrases

Phrases

• A mighty maze of mystic magic rays (lyric of song used at the opening of television)
• Bone weary
• Contraceptives should be used on all conceivable occasions (Spike Milligan line)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)
• Double denim (denim jeans worn with a denim shirt or jacket)
• Get used to it
• Good morning! Have you used Pear's Soap? (Pears' Soap advertising slogan)
• Had it
• High visibility jacket (reflective coat worn to be easily seen)
• I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled (from a poem by Eliot)
• I used to be indecisive but now I'm not so sure
• I wear my sunglasses at night
• I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
• I'm not half the man I used to be (The Beatles song lyric)
• If the cap fits, wear it
• If the shoe fits, wear it
• Is it hot in here or is it me? (Typically used by menopausal women having a hot flush)
• It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
• Like mother used to make
• Like tea used to be (Yorkshire Tea advertising slogan)
• Look your best while you wear our least (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• None too shabby
• Nostalgia isn't what it used to be
• Rally cap (A baseball expression denoting a cap is a worn inside out or backwards)
• Rubber bullet (a bullet made of rubber or plastic and used for riot control)
• Run yourself ragged
• San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) (Scott McKenzie song)
• Secondhand rose
• Shabby chic
• Since when I have used no other (Pears' Soap advertising slogan)
• Somebody That I Used to Know (Gotye with Kimbra song)
• The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
• The future isn't what it used to be
• The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades (song by Timbuk 3)
• Things aren't what they used to be
• War eagle (the golden eagle - used by Native Americans to make headdresses)
• War weary (tired of conflict)
• Warn off
• We used to have one of those, but the wheels fell off
• Wear the pine overcoat
• Wear the trousers
• Wear your apron high
• Wear your heart on your sleeve
• Wear yourself out
• What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course (Marilyn Monroe quotation)
• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple (from a poem by Joseph)
• World weary
• Worse for wear
• Would you buy a used car from this man?
• You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart song)