Writing Phrases

Phrases

• As busy as a one armed paper hanger
• Bad paper
• Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by (Douglas Adams quotation)
• It sounds alright on paper
• Joined up writing
• Light the blue touch paper and retire
• Mansfield Park (Jane Austen novel)
• Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
• Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen novel)
• Not worth the paper it's printed on
• Nothing to write home about
• On paper
• Paper Doll (Mills Brothers song)
• Paper millionaire
• Paper over the cracks
• Paper profit
• Paper the house
• Paper thin
• Paper tiger
• Paper trail
• Paperback Writer (Beatles song)
• Poetry In Motion (Johnny Tillotson song)
• Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen novel)
• Purple prose
• Put in writing
• Put pen to paper
• Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen novel)
• The Great Bird of the Galaxy (Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry)
• The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on (from a poem by Fitzgerald)
• The pen is mightier than sword
• The writing is on the wall
• Toxic paper
• Write off for